Rashford urges Manchester United to follow Liverpool s role model

Rashford urged Manchester United to follow Liverpool's example to get rid of the "no man's land" dilemma that the team has been in in recent years. Since Ferguson retired in 2013 (which was also the year when the Red Devils won the Premier League title for the last time), Manchester United has experienced six official coaches, and as many as ten if the interim coaches are included. In the following 12 seasons, they ranked among the top three in the league only four times.

Manchester United's decline coincides with the rise of Liverpool. Liverpool went from barely qualifying for the UEFA Cup to winning the top league championship twice and winning the Champions League title, and also won the league runner-up three times and entered other European finals three times.

Rashford called on Manchester United to follow Liverpool

Just just a few months after Klopp took charge of Liverpool's coach, Rashford entered Manchester United's first team. He witnessed with his own eyes how the German coach transformed the Reds, and Klopp coached at Anfield for nearly nine years.

Accepting the "The Rest Is Football" program (via Football In an interview, the current Barcelona player who plays on loan said: "Under Ferguson, the entire youth training camp system is unified, so you can start picking players from the age of 15. And if you keep changing (systems), that's different. It's passive. You can't expect to win this way."

"You might win the Cup because you have good coaches, good players and a good team. It's not accidental. But when I take a step back and think about what people expect from Manchester United, what do you expect?"

"People say we've been in a transition period for years, but to get into a transition, you have to really start the transformation first. The transformation hasn't started yet. When Liverpool got Klopp, they chose to trust and stick to him. At first they didn't win the championship immediately, but now no one remembers that time. You have to make plans and stick to it."

"We changed too many head coaches and ended up doing nothing and falling into the 'no man's land'. This is 100% heartbreaking, not only as a player, but as a Manchester United fan."

Thank goodness, Liverpool chose to trust Klopp in difficult times!

It is easy to forget that in Klopp's first season (2015/16 season), Liverpool ended up only ranked eighth. In the following two seasons, they needed to win in the final battle to secure the top four seats, and they didn't start challenging the Premier League title until the 2018/19 season.

Clubs like Manchester United or Chelsea have experienced frequent coach changes over the past decade, and it is likely that after a little over a year, the panic button (hasted change of coaches). For example, Liverpool had a bad start in early 2017 (no league record in January, three consecutive games in a week at Anfield and one after another in Cup games), if Klopp was working under his impulsive and irritable boss, he would probably have been fired at the time. Luckily, Liverpool executives did not fire him, but chose to trust Klopp and let him make achievements in Merseyside until he left office as he wished in 2024.

Once upon a time, the position of Liverpool coach also gave people a feeling of "revolving door". Between 2010 and 2012, Liverpool experienced four different coaches. But during Klopp's long nine-year term, Manchester United experienced four official coaches and two interim coaches. Rashford started his senior career under Van Gaal, and then played for coaches such as Mourinho, Solskjaer and Tenhager.

When the 27-year-old player longs for his parent team to follow the Reds' approach and show loyalty to the current manager, Liverpool fans across Merseyside will probably have a bitter smile on their faces. The role exchange is so obvious! Looking back on the dark years in the early 2010s, from Benitez to Rodgers, Hodgson and Darglish experienced in the middle, and Liverpool's coach changes were also very rapid.