Every time a young player starts his profession career with good notes, everyone compares him with former greats who have also been associated with the same side during their initials years. If we talk about the ruling forwards of contemporary soccer Cristiano Ronaldo is the one player who first comes to our mind and if we look at his first season, he was grossly successful playing for Manchester United back in 2003-04. Now, when he is a brand name in himself and plays for Real Madrid, ManU still miss him and try to recoup his loss by hiring more and more promising young players every year. The 18-year-old young and talented Englishman Marcus Rashford is the one player who started his career playing for Red Devils this year and impressed everyone with his passing the ball technique and capitalization of available opportunities. He scored six goals out of eleven appearances which is at part with what Ronaldo had scored in his first season playing for the Old Trafford side.
Looking at his form and the way he plays during the games, everyone is aspiring another Ronaldo out of him bur United boss Louis van Gaal is not willing to accept there is any similarity between the two players. Denying any resemblance among the two, Dutchman says it is like comparing ‘apples with pears,’ which is shocking to many since Van Gaal is not kind of a man who easily rights off an important contribution from his young players. Anyways, talking about the growing interest of media in young player and if he anywhere plays like the Portuguese, 64-year-old said, “You can compare apples with pears, so I don’t agree with what you want to suggest. We have to wait and see.
“It is fantastic what Marcus has done so far, but you cannot compare him with Ronaldo, who also played in a different position. He was not a striker when he was at Manchester United, I believe. When you think you need a not too big squad, you leave the chance open for youngsters. Manchester United believe in youngsters and Louis van Gaal believes in youngsters.
“This was also one of the arguments as to why they have selected me, so it is not new for me that it is happening, but I’m very happy that we have the ability to pick up youngsters out of the academy.”