Sam Allardyce believes Manchester United and England striker Marcus Rashford will struggle to keep playing\u00a0into his 30s at the top level of football.<\/p>\n
The youngster recently made his 150th senior appearance for the Red Devils, having first burst onto the scene for the club in 2016 with two goals on his debut against\u00a0FC Midtjylland.<\/p>\n
Rashford is now United\u2019s main striker under caretaker boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, having scored five goals in six games since his appointment.<\/p>\n
Solskjaer even recently hailed the 20-year-old as being at the same level as Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney when they racked up 150 games in a United shirt.<\/p>\n
Rashford has netted 41 goals for Manchester United during that time frame. By comparison, Rooney had managed 45 and Ronaldo just 25 at the same stage of their Old Trafford careers.<\/p>\n
But, Allardyce fears for the striker\u2019s long-term fitness, given the amount of games he has played for club and country at such a tender age.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Tuesday\u2019s Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast, the former Premier League manager said: \u201cIt will be very difficult for him to still be playing at 30, because of the demand physically and mentally and the fatigue he will suffer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll have three weeks a year off. That\u2019s it. There\u2019s no pre-season any more. They go playing straight away in these tournaments, he\u2019ll play all over the world and he\u2019ll play for his country.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if he doesn\u2019t get any major injures, by 25 he\u2019ll have niggles just from wear and tear.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe knees and ankles, the hips, his back will start being a problem as he goes on.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wont stop him playing but I think later on in life it will bring his career to an end quicker.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you’re looking at the Premier League now, there are fewer players over 30 playing now than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sam Allardyce believes Manchester United and England striker Marcus Rashford will struggle to keep playing\u00a0into his 30s at the top level of football. The youngster recently made his 150th senior appearance for the Red Devils, having first burst onto the scene for the club in 2016 with two goals on his debut against\u00a0FC Midtjylland. Rashford…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}