FerociousCorgis
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Reactionary as always, and very short-sighted. Martial has been a scapegoat all season, when he's been one of the top performers on the team. He comes off the bench and scores or assists, 'oh, well he's playing against tired legs so of course he would'. He becomes a starter and scores or assists, 'oh well he doesn't puncture a lung on all of his runs and doesn't smile, he doesn't care.' The whole team performs terribly, but no...let's single out the 22 yr old who just got his starting spot.
He came back from a long way out from last season, and it all came crashing down again when Sanchez was signed. I remember very well many on this thread who are taking a giant dump on him now who were saying that he was a key player then, and that the Sanchez arrival wouldn't disturb that because Jose, in all his wisdom, will play Alexis on the right wing and have Martial on the other wing since he was impactful there game-in, game-out. I, among others, said watch how Mourinho is going to screw this up, and he has. Now you have a Martial who still had some inconsistencies this season (which you can say that about every fecking player on this squad not named De Gea), but unlike last year, even when he played poorly he would either score or assist. The lad now is clearly one foot out of the door, and I don't blame him one bit. He's got no confidence to his game after he managed to build it back up all of this season, for a player who could play on the right effectively but instead has taken his spot, who is 29 and not getting any younger, and who's good performances you could count on one severed hand.
Mourinho is not getting to this team, and has done a piss-poor job managing the players' motivation and cohesion. When you have a manager who never takes any blame for himself and throws it all at his players' feet, who in their right mind thinks that translates well over to the locker room?! I don't care how much better their season is compared to last, they will be worse next season under him because every deflection of the blame he takes, he is going to be losing the locker room more and more, just like he did at Chelsea, just like he did at Madrid, and just like he will wherever he goes next. But yeah, sure, let's sell Pogba and Martial while Mourinho keeps reminding us of how he beat United and has won more than the club has at every embarrassing defeat.
The same people who say there are too many excuses for Martial are the exact same people who use him as the scapegoat for a loss and go missing from the thread when he's won this team points.
exactly. Martial had more goals in the 3 games prior to sanchez signing than sanchez has with us in the months he has been here now. Yet people still want to bash him for apparently "not competing for his spot". He worked his ass off and then gets shunted right back out for a new guy who isnt doing jack shit yet retains his spot in sanchez. I was all for sanchez signing and essentially called people idiots for saying sanchez would play at LW. I thought with how well the rotation of martial and rashford was working that no way would mou be stupid enough to bring in another LW. Except apparently i was wrong and he is that dumb. People love watching sanchez run around and lose the ball. They just claim it is him being "creative" and things will go wrong. Minus the fact that half of his turnovers seems to be from him dribbling the ball right into players. Pretty sure sanchez can try his stupid little lofted dink pass through the middle from the right side and we can actually have an attacking LW who scores and assists regularly. Think it was posted in the progression/stagnation thread, but someone posted all the stats of how we have actually regressed this season, and are pretty damn lucky (and mainly to DDGod) that we are in 2nd place-for what that is worth considering how far behind city.
I just don't get how mou is taking this team forward. I swear we talk about the same things every week the WHOLE damn season. Players look like they have never played together offensively. This is just completely unacceptable considering the so called talent we have there. We have absolutely nothing from our fullbacks going forward. We have a huge hole at the RW slot. We try and overload the leftish central area of pitch and make it so easy for teams to defend against us. Why are we not stretching a team like WBA and making them defend the entire backline? I could play LB for the teams we play with how little we make them defend. Shit i could prob get forward better than valencia/young as well. Oh and what the feck is going on with matic? Dude looks so freaking old and slow right now in the central mid of the park. Id rather just have herrera sitting in there he could do that job ten times quicker at this point of the season. Matic needs to recoup and rest this summer and get his damn legs back. If we go and buy 2 actual fullbacks this summer i think that gives us a shot at next year if we add another piece in central midfield. If we go in with young/valencia anywhere near the starting lineup consistently then we are just screwed and will be fighting for more scraps again. Hopefully sanchez has to actually earn his place next season as well and can't rely on excuse of new team. Swear he has had maybe 3 good halves since coming here.