Ruben Amorim and Marcus Rashford 'no longer on speaking terms' at Man Utd

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim is reported to have cut all contact with winger Marcus Rashford after ramping up his criticism of the Englishman.

While Amorim has always challenged Rashford to raise his standards away from the pitch, the new boss took his assessment of the 27-year-old to a new level last week when he claimed he would rather play his 63-year-old goalkeeper coach Jorge Vital over Rashford, despite recognising the impact exiling someone of Rashford's talent has on the team.

The Guardian state there is no longer an active line of communication between Rashford and Amorim, who only speaks to the forward in wider conversations with the entire squad.

Having publicly admitted his desire for a "new challenge", Rashford remains available for transfer this month but has found options hard to come by, and it was recently reported that he was looking to force his way back into Amorim's thinking.

United legend Rio Ferdinand recently warned Rashford there was "no way back", however, and now fellow Red Devils great Paul Scholes has even suggested Rashford should be banished from the United dressing room.

"I think Marcus has let a lot of people down really," he told The Overlap. "With his attitude, and I think that's what the manager is trying to say.

"You think of the young players coming through the team, think of [Alejandro] Garnacho, they're looking up to people like Marcus now – he's 27 years of age, and he's clearly not training properly.

"I remember years ago when I told [Sir Alex Ferguson] I didn't want to play in that Arsenal game. He said to me, 'The worst thing you did is let your team'mates down', and that really stuck with me because I wasn't really thinking about that. And now I think Marcus Rashford, he's doing exactly the same.

"OK, he's not refusing to play, but in the way he's behaving and the way he's training, in a way he is saying, 'I don't want to be involved with these'.

"So I think the fact of letting your teammates down in that dressing room, he should be banished from the dressing room really. If he's in and around that and young people are seeing that as an example, the sooner he's gone the better."

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