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The painful divorce of Marcus Rashford and Manchester United

Marcus Rashford poses for under 18 team picture in 2014

Chief football news reporter

He joined Manchester United at the age of seven.

Twenty years, 426 appearances, 138 goals and five trophies later, Marcus Rashford is set to leave for Aston Villa.

It will seem strange to see Rashford - the boy from Wythenshawe, United through and through - wearing another team's strip.

As recently as November, the idea seemed fanciful.