How long does it feel that Marcus Rashford's view broke out forward with the ball at his feet would lead Manchester United supporters to the edge of his seats and would affect the fear of the hearts of the defenders who try to stop him.
How long does it feel that Rashford scored 30 goals just a season and a half and it seemed that he could be the man to say goodbye to United where they once reigned.
Rashford has not kicked a ball in a professional game since mid -December, when Ruben Amorim dragged him before the time brand in his Europa League game against Viktoria and threw it in the shadows.
“I could not make Marcus see the way you are supposed to play football and train as I see,” said Amorim earlier this week.
Fortunately, the head of Villa Unai Emery believes that he can make Rashford see him as he does and we can even see him for the first time against Tottenham in the FA Cup on Sunday.
If you can, Villa and Rashford could be exactly what they need.
After fighting Man United by Marcus Rashford, he seeks to return to his best moment
If everything goes well, Rashford's loan movement to Aston Villa could be a perfect place to revive his career.
Aston Villa's manager, Unai Emery, is confident that Rashford can be a success for his team
A direct decrease
What was once the most devastating part of the Rashford game has disappeared. Where he once assumed his defender every time and, often, left them in his dust, that stimulating frankness, or at least the confidence to do so, now he has gone.
In the twinkling 2022-23 campaign of Rashford, which scored 30 goals in all competitions, was almost unstoppable with the ball at his feet.
No player recorded so many haules for shooting purposes, where a player dribble at least five meters with the ball before trying to goal. Only the end of Arsenal Gabriel Martinelli scored more of them. Only Bukayo Saka tried to face his opponent more frequently than Rashford. That frankness distinguished it.
Now, Rashford faces his opponents less frequently than ever. And when he decides to do it, he hits them even less often. Its acquisition success rate this season is approximately 21 %, in every five, its lowest of any season of their career and half of the half that did it in 2022-23.
It is not just the belief or desire to overcome your man either. He is averaging the least amount of shots per game than ever and has the least amount of touches in the box.
It has never been more anonymous, but hope is that he has now found a team and a manager who can put it in the foreground once again.
Rashford faces opponents much less than during his 2022-23 star campaign
In addition, Rashford is having fewer shots for what he has done before
The widest problem of Villa
In the absence of Ollie Watkins, Rashford offers Emery another option to play in the middle, but if there is a type of Villa Chief, it is an explosive end, especially on the left.
Emery often plays with one end wide and the other, on the opposite flank, narrower with the backs that provide the width.
Leon Bailey, the right end of first choice, has remained very similar, but has done nothing close to the impact last season where he scored 10 goals and established another nine on the road from Villa to the first four. Until now, he has once written down with a couple of assists.
Emery has juggled with her options on the left. Jacob Ramsey is the first current choice, which begins the last four league games, but he also has only one goal and a couple of assists throughout the season. John McGinn and Morgan Rogers shared the nine games before that.
McGinn still does not take into account, while Rogers has scored three of his league goals this season when he starts on the left flank, but is more effective playing in the middle.
Among them, Ramsey and Bailey have created only 27 opportunities among them so far. That is less combined than that of Villa Lucas Digne, who does most of the creative work in the superposition to the left.
He carries the lowest scorers in the upper half of the table.
It is expected that Rashford will be asked to stay torque on the left and take his back like the old days and get in the box to shoot. If Emery can unleash that rashford, he will add a very necessary weapon to the Arsenal de Villa.
Leon Bailey has been the right end of Villa's first choice, but has not matched the shape of last season
It is anticipated that it will be asked for rashford to stay on the left and take your backup
PACE still has a blow
In the same way that Rashford has lost its spark, Villa has also lost its explosiveness due to spring attacks against its opponents, an area where Rashford can help them prosper again.
Last season, Villa was devastating at the counter. Only three teams made more fast breaks than Emery's team and only three scored more goals than the seven of Villa.
This term, however, Villa is in the lower half for fast breaks and has only scored one of them, Rogers' first game against Brighton in December. Everton and Leicester are the only parts that have not scored one.
During the 30 goal season of Rashford, it was United who attacked with the fastest breaks and scored most of their goals, and Rashford was the player who scored most of them for his team.
Rashford's rhythm could help them rekindle that threat of counterattack.
Rashford's rhythm could help Villa rekindle his threat in the counterattack
Rashford will be aimed to rekindle the old fire that made him a star in the first place
The former United man is still among the 10 best fastest ends in the Premier League this season and the fastest of all the front men of Villa. Only the Central midfielder Amadou Onana has registered a faster maximum speed among the Villas players.
Rashford's maximum speed is 22 mph, a mile per hour faster than McGinn and even faster than Ramsey. At that speed, it would reach the penalty area from the midline at least half a faster.
That does not sound much, but in the excellent margins of premier frantic, even the smallest advantage makes the biggest difference.
Maybe that's why Rashford decided to enter and train on his first day off at Villa. He knows that if he should relive his career, he needs to rekindle that old fire again.