{"id":206342,"date":"2025-10-17T10:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206342\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:47:10","slug":"wayne-rooney-doubts-marcus-rashfords-inconsistent-environment-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206342\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney doubts Marcus Rashford’s ‘inconsistent environment’ claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney doesn’t believe the environment was to blame for Marcus Rashford being unable to perform consistently for the Red Devils.<\/p>\n

Rashford scored 138 goals in 426 matches for United since making his debut for the club in 2016 and won five major trophies.<\/p>\n

He scored 30 goals in all competitions in 2022-23 but has been unable to match that form since and fell out of favour, spending the second half of last season on loan at Aston Villa.<\/p>\n

Rashford is now flourishing on loan at Barcelona and he said recently in an interview he had been in an “inconsistent environment for a very long time”., external<\/a><\/p>\n

However, speaking on the latest episode of The Wayne Rooney Show<\/a>, Rooney said: “I think the environment hasn’t been right but that is down to yourself. <\/p>\n

“If you are not playing well or you get left out of the team then I think it is easier to blame the environment and whether that is right or wrong. I think that comes from how you apply yourself.<\/p>\n

“In games we have seen with him where we know he can do more, we know he can run more – that is nothing to do with an environment.<\/p>\n

“I might be wrong here, I really like Marcus as a lad and as a person but I think that is an easy one to throw at people.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney doesn’t believe the environment was to blame for Marcus Rashford being unable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-206342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}