Marcus Rashford must debunk Jamie Carragher prediction to reignite Manchester United career

Manchester United find themselves in an all-too familiar position with Marcus Rashford. For this once all-conquering club, it’s another sad indictment of their downfall over the past 10 years.

United made their name as the club that bucked the trend under Sir Alex Ferguson. That oft-quoted soundbite from Alan Hansen that “you can’t win anything with kids” was regularly debunked as the Old Trafford conveyor belt kept churning out exciting and new talent.

Those names would go on to etch themselves into United history. Scholes, Giggs, Neville, Beckham et al. would go on to play a big part in some of the club’s greatest moments.

The club has continued to produce its own players since Ferguson’s retirement, but none have managed the longevity of those names of the past. In fact, most have followed a very similar pattern: burst onto the scene, struggle to maintain that early momentum, find themselves in and out of the team, before eventually fading into obscurity as they left Old Trafford.

It’s a well-trodden path for many players whom supporters had such high hopes for. So many had predicted Rashford would be the one to break the trend — but even he now finds himself in a state of purgatory at the club.

As he considers his future, there is the growing sense that he could very well become the latest to follow so many of his predecessors out of the exit door. While he would be loathed to leave his boyhood club, even that attachment hasn’t stopped other names from having to say their goodbyes.

And as more and more doubts creep in, fans have drawn comparisons to Danny Welbeck. A forward who was United through-and-through, he found himself having to begrudgingly leave the club in 2014 after it became harder and harder to find a