He’s become conditioned into being a lazy bastard.
Young modern footballers at big clubs are far too mollycoddled as it is, across the board, and are already out of touch with reality when they’re on £500,000 a year at 18 years old after doing absolutely nothing to merit it. Yet someone like Rashford had it taken even further. His PR team pushed him into the media with the govt/school dinners stuff, so United made him their highest earner for marketing purposes because he’d become a public figure, a household name. He never had to work hard to become the highest paid player at United, he’s not earnt it, he’s just done a few interviews about school dinners and how his Mam had two jobs. He’s become used to doing next to nowt and getting paid an eye watering amount of money for such minimal efforts and achievements, he’s got away with it for years and become conditioned into that role a person.
He doesn’t know hard work or how to do it. He’s always got a face on him for weeks on end when his managers have been in the press asking more from him. Numerous managers have taken him off in games where he’s done fuck all and he’s got a face on him walking off the pitch like he’s been the hardest working and biggest contributing player on the pitch and the manager is in the wrong.
Rashford needs a reality check.