Marcus Rashford may have to make same "heartbreaking" decision that destroyed Robbie Fowler

Marcus Rashford will have to think long and hard about his lifelong love affair with Manchester United, as his World Cup hopes crumble.

Since Christmas, Rashford has started just four games in the Premier League and Champions League, and was substituted in every one of the contests. He has been on the bench for almost all of Ralf Rangnick’s reign, and used only sparingly as a sub in seven matches.

The lack of game time has affected his form badly, and that saw him miss out on selection for Gareth Southgate’s England squad in the current international break but should he leave Old Trafford - with Arsenal interested - it would be "heartbreaking" for the striker to leave club he joined aged seven.

That’s the view of legendary striker Robbie Fowler…and he should know because he’s been there himself in his illustrious career. The former England man says he knows what Rashford is currently going through, with his international career stalled because of a lack of game time with Manchester United - and he insists it could affect the forward’s mental health.

Fowler faced a similar agonising dilemma when he was at the height of his powers with Liverpool, as a young striker with the world at his feet playing for the famous club in the city of his birth. The forward insisted that he “didn’t want to leave Liverpool, I loved the club”, but in 2001, with a World Cup looming the following summer, he shocked the football world with a move to Leeds.

He said: “I loved Liverpool - I still love Liverpool - and I really didn’t want to move, but when it came to it, I was being squeezed out so often, I felt I was left with no choice. I was at the height of my career, but in my mind was being treated so unfairly that for the sake of my