Manchester United view sidelining Marcus Rashford as key to cultural reboot

• Club ready to cut losses but see easier way back for Garnacho
• Ashworth exit part of willingness to take short-term pain

Marcus Rashford has been marginalised and put up for sale by Manchester United as part of a cultural reboot deemed necessary to transform the club after standards were allowed to decline for more than a decade.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe is intent there can be no passengers and is ready to cut his losses on Rashford if there are suitors in January. A willingness to take short-term pain in pursuit of long-term gain was also behind Dan Ashworth?s exit as sporting director after five months when United had paid ?5m to bring him from Newcastle.
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