Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes says Erik ten Hag's tough approach is just what the squad needed.
Fernandes has admitted that he and his team-mates were initially unsure as to how strict the ex-Ajax boss would be on the players, but it soon became clear that he would demand exemplary behaviour on and off the pitch to turn the team's fortunes around.
"He first arrived and we went on tour and the training sessions we had, he demands: 'you do it or you're out'. You don't play," Fernandes said on Rio Ferdinand's Between The Lines.
"Everyone was a little bit like in the beginning: 'will he do that or not? If a big player doesn't do what he wants will he pull him apart or not?' And he did that many times, he did it with Cristiano, with Jadon, with Marcus."
Rashford overslept and missed a team meeting ahead of United's New Year's Eve trip to Wolves.
Fernandes believes it would have been easy for Ten Hag to overlook Rashford's error but the Dutchman decided to drop the England international from his starting line-up.
Fernandes has claimed that Rashford understood Ten Hag's stance, though, due to his consistency when dealing with his players when they stepped out of line.
"Marcus was probably in the best form against Wolves, he did something wrong and the manager pulled him out," Fernandes explained.
"In the first moment we thought 'he's our main man, we need him' but in the second I was sitting with David (De Gea) and I said 'it has to be like this' because if not that the younger ones will think 'if he does nothing to them he'll do nothing to me too'.
"He demanded from Rashy you have to be consistent in everything, not only in your games, in your goals, and your performance but off the pitch also.
"Marcus in the beginning he was hungry because he wanted to play but he didn't do anything wrong, he accepted, came on, scored, we win and at the end him and the coach are laughing.
"Sometimes you have to make some rules in your house. Otherwise they will go over you and they will be the owners of the house."
