Demotion to the Three Lions U21 squad failed to deter Rashford and his scoring exploits, and he cele. When he is asked to sit in centre midfield, he is often outpaced and out-thought. Perhaps Pep will think he is good enough to play in the final 10 minutes of a League Cup game against a third division team – and, yes, I am joking. I considered changing for a while, but Real Madrid was always my?priority and there were no economic reasons. Mark Hughes wielded his axe after another bad day at the office at Crystal Palace. He will want to win it all, of course, the league and Champions League are special – but his ambition will be to win every competition. I need to get those out the way first and start having tailwinds. He was all about getting in the players’ minds – but Mourinho encourages free-thinking and the emphasis on his training sessions are on ball work, not mind games. But if City dont win the Champions League then I hope that Pep has got the balls to say that he was wrong to humiliate a great player like Yaya. MARKUS HENRIKSEN hit a dramatic 91st-minute winner as Hull poured more misery on Mark Hughes’s Stoke with a 2-1 EFL Cup win at the?Britannia Stadium.