Darren Bent has stated he’d take Danny Welbeck over Marcus Rashford, leaving talkSPORT co-host Andy Goldstein shocked.
Bent, one among simply 33 members of the Premier League’s 100-goal membership, made the audacious declare amid debate over Rashford’s World Cup spot.
The Manchester United ahead has seemingly overcome a worrying dip in type, trying revitalised beneath new supervisor Erik ten Hag.
Rashford already has three targets and two assists in seven Premier League video games this season, placing him only a objective from his 2021/22 complete.
That’s seen the 24-year-old re-enter the controversy over a spot on the 2022 World Cup, having been dropped from Gareth Southgate’s squad following Euro 2020.
Now again on type there’s hope he can rediscover his greatest degree, however that peak gained’t be pretty much as good as fellow Manchester-born striker Welbeck.
“I’d nonetheless take Welbeck, I nonetheless would,” Bent stated.
“Benty you already know these cameras choose this up and it goes out on social media?” Goldstein replied.
“You’re the only person on the planet that would take Welbeck over Rashford.
“I’m speechless, you think a great Danny Welbeck is better than a great Marcus Rashford?”
Bent replied: “Not now, that’s clearly the distinction, however we had been speaking about of their pomp.
“Sure, Welbeck in his pomp was higher.”
Welbeck is at the moment plying his commerce for Brighton, and is in his third season on the membership having scored 12 targets in 56 video games.
Like Rashford, the striker additionally broke by means of the staff’s academy earlier than stints at Watford and Arsenal.
Not like Rashford, he’s a Premier League winner, and managed to drive his method right into a line-up that includes membership greats corresponding to Wayne Rooney.
Nevertheless, Rashford is again on type, and generally is a certainty for England if he retains it going.
Requested if Rashford will likely be on the aircraft to Qatar if he retains his present degree, Bent stated: “He must be.
“He appears to be like assured once more, he appears to be like direct, he’s not complicating his sport, he’s doing the fundamentals nicely.
“Scoring targets, helping, and he’s been an issue as nicely, he’s making an influence whether or not it’s from the bench or beginning.”
