Manchester United academy coach Colin Little says Marcus Rashford is proof a goalscorer can be developed.

Little recalls Michael Owen delivering a lecture to youngsters at United where he reaffirmed his belief a player is born a goalscorer.

"I remember Michael doing a talk with us and it was mentioned," Little told the club website. "He literally said, 'you are born a goalscorer'. I saw Graeme Souness and Jose Mourinho in the TV studio saying the same thing - 'you can't teach people it'. They were saying 'name one player' and I was screaming at the TV!

"It's a load of rubbish. Cristiano Ronaldo was a tricky winger. Before Pep Guardiola got to him, Raheem Sterling used to only score about six or seven a season. You could maybe say Mason [Greenwood] is more natural.

"But maybe Michael is right that he was born a goalscorer. He says no coach ever taught him, apart from Steve Heighway teaching him the near-post run, but maybe he is an exception and freakish.

"So his way of looking at it was, 'I was born to do that so everybody else must have been'. But others have to learn it."