Liverpool legend Graeme Souness has branded the off-field antics of Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford as "idiotic and embarrassing".

Rashford was disciplined after going on a bender in Belfast last week.

Souness wrote for the Daily Mail: "When I look at the way Marcus Rashford's career is crashing, I can't help thinking back to the Liverpool dressing room I was a part of and what we would have had to say about a team-mate behaving like this.

"I assure you that we simply would not have allowed anyone to conduct himself in such a way. The other pros in our dressing room would have slaughtered him. He would have been called 'the idiot.' 'The village idiot.' He would have been hounded. Ridiculed. Ours wasn't a dressing room of saints but we had a night out at the right time.

"I believe it would have been the same response in Alex Ferguson's Manchester United dressing room. Rashford wouldn't have got away with this behaviour at that club in the past because the senior players would have pointed out to him that it's not the way to act. Fergie would certainly not have tolerated it, either.

"It shouldn't even be the senior players having to tell him the home truths. His brothers are his agents. These are the guys who should be stopping him doing the idiotic things and telling him that he's making a fool of himself. Embarrassing himself. But they appear to be enjoying the lifestyle that their brother's giving them - getting on board the private jets, flying around the world. They ought to be looking after him and giving him the advice he really needs."