Manchester United legend Gary Neville has explained why he would "hate" for Marcus Rashford to leave the club.

The English attacker, 24, is reportedly looking at leaving his boyhood club, with Barcelona interested in acquiring his signature.

"I get the fact he's not playing at the moment, his form is poor," he told Sky Sports. "He's drained of confidence. No one knows what's happened to him.

"He looks completely uncomfortable and unhappy on the pitch. When he came on against Atletico Madrid, again, he just looked like there was nothing there. He needs to get to the end of this season. He needs to regroup, reset and probably just, you know, I had a period like that in my football career at Manchester United.

"In 2000 I had to get to the summer and re-evaluate. Maybe I wasn't under as much scrutiny at the time.

"But I do feel like Marcus Rashford needs to just go away this summer. Four weeks where he reassesses himself, reassesses what he wants in life, who he wants around him. He needs to reassess what's important to him and get back to doing what he was doing before, which is playing football really well with that freedom.

"He's not playing with freedom at this moment in time. I'd hate to think that an academy player at the age of nine, that's got great talent, would leave just after his first bad period, even though it's probably been 12 to 18 months now."