Marcus Rasfhord is one of the stars of the Premier League. The Manchester United striker has 17 goals this season under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The Englishman is being one of United's best players this season. Today he looks more mature than years ago and points out Mourinho as responsible for his improvement. Despite disagreeing with the Portuguese coach's method, Rashford recognizes that the two and a half years that he was at his command represented a before and after in his career: “It was a difficult time in my career, but those are the moments that make or break you. His training style may not have been perfect for me, but it made me improve as a player and also as a person.
Rashford also explains in an interview with Sky Sports the mentality with which Mourinho approached the matches. The forward makes it clear that the Portuguese coach uses pragmatism to achieve victory: “My time with José (Mourinho) was a massive learning period for me and I feel like I understood football in a different way than I understood it before. At the club academy it was always about playing as well as you could, playing, expressing yourself and going to score as many goals as you could. If you could win 6-4, then you would go out and try to win 6-4, but with José we learned that winning 1-0 is the same as winning 6-4. “