Amorim SHUTS DOWN questions on Rashford’s Manchester United future | OneFootball

Ruben Amorim shut down speculation on Marcus Rashford’s future at Manchester United, insisting his focus is on winning matches.

United find themselves 14th in the Premier League table, as they prepare to host Southampton on Thursday night – a position Harry Maguire described as ‘embarrassing’.

The United boss remains determined to turn things around, and will be looking to build on the weekend’s dramatic FA Cup win over Arsenal.

Rashford, however, continues to be linked with a move away from the club, having found himself out of favour under Amorim.

And when asked about Rashford, Amorim said: “I just want to win tomorrow. My focus is to win tomorrow, I will choose the players that I think are best to win the game tomorrow. I am just focused on that.

“Of course you feel the pressure of the club but in this moment, I don’t feel that pressure. In the last years we haven’t won the league. In the past here, if you didn’t win the league one year you would have to win it the next.

“To feel that pressure in the future, we need to win. We need to win titles and we need to win games. When you have the pressure to win, that is the pressure we want.

“Against Arsenal and Liverpool, nobody was expecting us to beat those teams but now we have to be prepared for that pressure, we need that pressure as a team and face the game the right way.”

United defeated Arsenal on penalties in the FA Cup third round at the weekend, but Amorim believes the match against Southampton will be a marker of where his team is.

“I think tomorrow will tell us more about our team than the last two games,” he added.

“The most difficult thing to train in one team is the way you build with the ball and in the final third the way you create situations. That is what a big team should do very well and for that we also need time to train. We have had for a long time a lack of goals.

“We don’t spend a lot of times during games in the last third with the ball. Against Arsenal, we waited for the opportunity but in the future you cannot play like that and I know that but we need time to build a different way of playing. In the future we are going to focus a lot on that.”