not over this one incident obviously despite how nasty it would be if proved true
it would be a decision based over the last 18 months of awful management, both man management and team management
as I said I will wait and see what the truth is
The Missing Martial thread
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it would be a decision based over the last 18 months of awful management, both man management and team management
as I said I will wait and see what the truth is
I don’t have kids and really don’t care about the kids of let’s say my co-workers (other than them being healthy of course) - but I also know you never, ever mention something negative about their kids, sickness, them being away and so forth. So why the hell did Mourinho even speak about it? Martial is going to slightly hate him forever now, it just goes without saying. Poor form Mourinho, should have worded yourself differently.
I don't disagree. I just don't know if Jose knew about the situation unless he thinks Martial is taking extended date than what he asked for.
he said it's a beautiful, healthy baby - thank God...
This explains a hell of a lot. I thought it was very strange to ask the press officer.
I saw the video. Jose comments but more importanty his body language gave the impression to us all that Martial could be awol.
Speaking of childish outbursts. You give him the benefit of the doubt and move on. Same thing your tutor or boss does when you call in sick. Jose doesn't make those comments if he knew there were complications and neither should anyone
How is saying he didn't know when Martial would come back passive aggressive, and how is that in anyway a sackable offence?
I don't know what world do you live in but as head manager of a 3 billions dollars club " I don't know" is the wrong answer literally every time.
Any rational person would say the most obvious PR stuff here instead of creating needless drama that no one would benefit from it.
Have you looked at this thread in the past week? No one had a clue yet just calling out Martial for being unprofessional and whose fault was it?
I want Martial to be sold too because it'd be the best for both parties but he had his rights ( 2 weeks of parental leave ) and wouldn't have had to say sorry if his manager had handled it better.
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The amount of dramatic imaginary scenarios that people on here are able to make up in their heads based on literally 0 evidence is absolutely astonishing at times. It's like listening to a bunch of girls spreading rumours about each other
Exactly. You can’t just make up negative stuff about players and expect them to not tell anyone it’s bullshit.
Typical Mourinho.
Would be really nice if stayed for at least one more season 
Have you actually read the last few pages of this thread?
Jose didn’t accuse Martial of anything.
What an atrocious post this is.
The only people making stuff up is the media and people on this forum
Well he passed it over to our PR person and they didn't disclose either so you're quite obviously mistaken
Thank you.
You think he might be lying about the mother being unwell due to the pregnancy?
C'mon dude, why does he have to lie?
So when Mourinho said Martial should have been with team, he presumably didn't know there were complications with Martial's girlfriend?
I think its quite poor that they didn't know the situation...
Only an arsehole would come to a conclusion like this, to be frank.
He's just said 'sorry but family comes first'. You've got to believe him.
I didn't say that it was
"Anthony Martial has the baby and after the baby is born - beautiful baby, full of health, thank God - he should be here and he is not here.”
Jose Mourinho waiting for Anthony Martial's return...
More: https://t.co/HFLebEg88D https://t.co/7Tr6bXdhh9
this was passive aggressive and what I was referring to.
This was the quote that prompted every troll going to attack Martial for not being professional. Read some of the comments about Martial as a result of this quote and put yourself in his shoes. Martial with a sick girlfriend and those quotes abusing him.
As I said l would wait and see what the truth is. if it turned out Mourinho knew she was quite ill and in distress or whatever and still had a pop I'd sack him. Not for this one incident but for 18 months of poor management
Well the fanbase has turned on him over the last 24 hrs.
It all feels so strange, now the Jose haters are let off the leash.
Its all stupidly toxic
Nope I skipped what followed on page 35 and later. Fair play, seems like he had a reason to not be there.
At first I thought he was just being a WUM.
But this place has been toxic over the summer, so it’s not all that surprising anymore how people can come to such conclusions based on absolutely nothing but what they read on here from other fans and the media.
What happened? Some journo asked Jose when Martial is back and he said he doesn't know.
That's it?
That's it?
Honestly, Jose should have handled it better during the press conference. Just watching, you got the impression he was annoyed/frustrated at Martial. We know now that was probably not the case but he could have diffused the situation by choosing his words better. We're talking about someone with years of media facing experience.
You've got to have a very warped agenda to instantly believe that Martial's admission that his partner was ill through childbirth is a lie.
You should be taking a break from football, to be honest.
You should be taking a break from football, to be honest.
the reason Martial has been away, according to Martial, was because after giving birth hid girlfriend has had complications, hence his absence
He refers to the Mourinho comments by saying Family comes first (IMO)
Rest your brain! You are seriously over thinking!
All Im saying is I hope this isn't some PR move to smooth over public relations.
So its revealed (assumed?) hes gone AWOL and he just happens to now be due back in Manchester the very next day?
Its not sitting right with me, thats all.
Thanks for the critique though.
I'd hope so
this should have been clearly communicated by Martial and I'd expect it to have been
Comments could have been from before any serious complications were known. Would hope so anyway.
Am I understanding this correctly? Theres been complications with both baby and mother and Mourinho still made that passive agressive comment? If this is true then he should be ashamed of himself, family always comes first in any fecking sport or whatever the hell it is and he should have been in contact with Martial to make sure everything was ok. Thats the difference between SAF and this guy when it comes to man management. When Ronaldos father was on his deathbed the first thing Sir Alex did was offer him his full support and tell him he could take as much time off as he wants, and this was in a crucial period of the season. Yet here we have a manager telling media martial should be here when his baby and the mother of his child was having birth complications, that really makes me sick.
Didn't Martial didn't inform Jose about the situation? The whole thing is weird.
This place has certainly gone downhill, when one cannot express his opinions without being called an arsehole.