Marcus Rashford has set his sights on breaking Wayne Rooney’s goalscoring record and reveals the Manchester United legend has helped him maintain his record: “I feel like I’ve got 35 or 40 goals this season can shoot.”

Marcus Rashford has revealed he is aiming to break Wayne Rooney’s record goals record at Manchester United after entrusting his future to the club.

Since coming through Man United’s academy, Rashford has scored 123 goals in 359 games and established himself as one of the team’s stars.

After signing a new five-year deal worth £300,000 a week, Rooney’s record 253 goals seems within reach.

Rashford, speaking to the overlap In a relationship with sky betGary Neville revealed Rooney encouraged him to equal his club record.

‘Hopefully I will [break Wayne Rooney’s all-time United goal record]”Rashford said.

Marcus Rashford has revealed he hopes to equal Wayne Rooney’s goalscoring record

The Man United star told Gary Neville Rooney encouraged him to pursue his record

Rooney has scored 253 goals for Man United over the course of his career, while Rashford is currently at 123

“You never know what’s going to happen, but I’m all about scoring goals and trying to provide assists.” There’s a chance it can happen.

“I spoke to Wazza about it – he wants me to do it.”

“He said it would be good for me to do that as I grew up at the club.”

“Hopefully I’ll get a chance to try it.”

Rashford signed his new contract following the season in which he was the club’s top goalscorer. In the 2022/23 season, he scored 30 goals in 56 games, becoming the first United player to reach that goal tally since Robin van Persie a decade ago.

Man United manager Erik ten Hag challenged Rashford to score 40 goals next season back in May.

Rashford believes he can achieve that feat if he stays injury-free throughout the season.

“Prior to last season I was aiming for 20 goals – a good benchmark for a winger,” said Rashford. “But this season I hit 30 – we have to try to push it now.”

Rashford signed a new five-year contract to remain at Manchester United last month

Man United manager Erik ten Hag challenged Rashford to score 40 goals next season

“Towards the end of the season I was struggling with a couple of injuries and wasn’t really focused – goals started to dwindle for a while.

“If I can keep that side under control, I feel like I can go ahead and get to 35 or 40.”

The Man United star is credited to Ten Hag’s winning mentality since arriving at the club last season, which helped change the fortunes of the team.

“When Erik ten Hag came in, I didn’t hear him talk about once being in the top four, he just wanted to win trophies and he has that mentality.” “It didn’t matter what competition we played in, him wanted to try to win everything,” he added.

“We gave it our all in the Europa League and let us down and there was a period in the Premier League where we didn’t defend as well and we didn’t score as many goals as we did – he will .” [Erik ten Hag] want to address.

“We have always bounced back from disappointing results. There is no worse point than when you go to opposing teams and concede four, five, six goals, you have to find the positive and in the games after that we always had a good performance and won.

“Right now we have a manager who is fully committed to winning at all costs and who wants us to be as good as we can individually and as a team.”

Rashford admitted it would be a “dream” to win the Premier League trophy with his youth club.

The Red Devils returned to the Champions League with a third-place finish last season but were 14 points behind eventual Premier League champions Man City.

Rashford believes Ten Hag can help the club take the next step in overtaking rivals Man City.

“If you think about it carefully, there’s nothing quite like winning at Manchester United.” “At the age I’m at, I still have a great chance of trying,” Rashford said.

Rashford scored 30 goals for the Red Devils last season but had to score 40 goals

“The time is closer than we think but we still have those extra steps to take and right now we have a manager who is fully committed to winning at all costs and who wants us to be individual and as good as we can .” as best we can be as a team.

“Ultimately he wants us to win trophies – there have been a couple of games where he came in angry at half-time because we weren’t playing well.”

“He tells us to listen and relax – he knows we’re not playing well but we’re still in the game but we’ll fight to win it.” It doesn’t matter if we’re 1-0 or win 3-0 but if we score that one goal just be prepared for that one chance – it’s a realignment.

“It’s important that I keep that in the back of my mind so that he doesn’t have to keep reminding me – it just happens naturally.”

Marcus Rashford spoke about The Overlap in partnership with Sky Bet