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Since Jose Mourinho's arrival at Old Trafford in 2016, no player's form has suffered such inconsistency more than Marcus Rashford's, with the youngster's potential looking no closer to being fulfilled anytime soon.

Stuttering form under the Portuguese boss

In Mourinho's two and a half seasons on the red side of Manchester, he has overseen 88 Premier League games, 38 of which Rashford has started. In that time, the England international has scored just 14 goals.

You may argue that the forward is still only 21 and yet to truly find his feet in England's top flight, but that argument would be quashed by the fact that the United academy graduate hit five goals in his first 11 starts; he hit the ground running, and only mismanagement is to blame for his stagnation.

Even in the games that Mourinho has placed his trust in the youngster, he has been deployed on the flanks, away from his preferred central position.

Considering the former Chelsea and Real Madrid manager started Rashford in a centre forward position in the Europa League final against Ajax in his first season as the Red Devils' boss, it must be tough for Rashford to have that faith placed in him, only for it to be taken away for no obvious reason.

Either he goes or I go

Whilst a 21-year-old shouldn't and most likely wouldn't make that demand given his fragile situation at Old Trafford, it should definitely be a discussion that Rashford needs to have with his agent.

Mourinho is harming the stock of many other attacking players at United with his rigid style, namely Anthony Martial, Alexis Sanchez and Romelu Lukaku, so the situation is not only relevant to Rashford.

However, the boy who won the FA Cup as a teenager, as well as Martial to some extent, have the highest ceiling of those aforementioned players, and should both be making serious considerations about leaving.

Should Rashford succumb to this period of inconsistency, he will fall straight onto the scrapheap of wasted English talent, similarly to Danny Welbeck. The former United man, now of Arsenal, burst onto the scene akin to the way in which Rashford did, only to never truly be trusted consistently as a central option.

Now at 27 years of age, Welbeck looks likely to be a free agent in the summer and has only 42 Premier League goals to boast in over 200 appearances of a truly mediocre career; which means he averages a goal every five games.