Ibrahimovic is considered to have an important role for Marcus Rashford’s career

DBasia.news – Marcus Rashford and Zlatan Ibrahimovic had become a duet at Manchester United. Although only briefly, Ibrahimovic had an important role in Rashford’s development.

The Swedish veteran bomber was with MU for less than two seasons. In his first season, Ibrahimovic scored 28 goals which helped the Red Devils win the Europa League, League Cup and Community Shield.

However, Ibrahimovic suffered a severe knee injury which made him absent for seven months before being released in March 2018. Rashford admitted, he took many positive sides of the experienced striker.

“His mentality exceeds anyone who has played with me before,” Rashford said in United’s Podcast, as Metro reported.

“He does not care what people will say about him or what anyone says about him,” he continued.

“In terms of mentality, he is the key to my development, especially when Jose (Mourinho, former MU manager) as he is someone who has trained him before and he already knows that you have to be a certain type of player in order to stay under him.”

After the departure of Ibrahimovic, Rashford was transformed into an irreplaceable player on Manchester United’s front lines. This season, Rashford has scored 19 goals in 31 appearances before suffering a back injury last January.