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Had he invested even a fraction of the effort he put into his PR campaign to actually perform on the pitch, he would have repaid some of the faith and the money the club has wasted on him over the years. I hold no malice for players who tried and failed and moved on despite a loss but it is entitled players like Martial that I hate with a vengeance. He has no place here.
What PR campaign, the post he made on Instagram?

We've seen what a PR campaign looks like with the likes of Rashford, Maguire, and Ronaldo. His post is basically nothing.
 

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Many are asking: 'why would Ralf lie?'
A truer question is: do you follow footy outside England?

Martial likely lied, but for Ralf to lie, nope. Like politicians, Ralf is operating in the realm of deception and reducing him to lies is a mockery.
Martial is just out of depth dealing with Ralf.

These are not small feats:
- to be called the biggest fraud in Russia's football history
- to be likened to the worst crook in Russia's mafia history
- that Maldini would give Milan an ultimatum to leave if they hired you

The biggest grift (read deception) of all is this:
- he always recommends involving himself with a club through consultation, as a B2B gig (grift) with his consultation firm 'Rangnick Kornetka Consulting'. This way he is never directly on club books and therefore easily able to leverage his influence on player and manager transfers.

You must be really dirty to be called dirty in Russia.

Don't get me started on his escapades in RB, and it is utter ignorance for many to think that Nagelsmann would ever consider coaching us when Ralf is still here. Matter of fact, let's forget a progressive coach, as many are not willing to work with him. Our young coaches did not just leave the club, they escaped Ralf.
 
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Man Utd is bigger than any player. If he doesn't want to play sell him. That goes for every player. I'd rather have a player with 20% of his talent but 500% of his workrate on the pitch.
 

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Always thought the whole Martial FC thing was stupid but I'm amazed to see there are still some defending him. Just bizarre at this point.
 

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We keep giving big contracts to the wrong guys. Moving him, and others, on is going to be a nightmare for our next boss.
 

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Many are asking: 'why would Ralf lie?'
A truer question is: do you follow footy outside England?

Martial likely lied, but for Ralf to lie, nope. Like politicians, Ralf is operating in the realm of deception and reducing him to lies is a mockery.
Martial is just out of depth dealing with Ralf.

These are not small feats:
- to be called the biggest fraud in Russia's football history
- to be likened to the worst crook in Russia's mafia history
- that Maldini would give Milan an ultimatum to leave if they hired you

The biggest grift (read deception) of all is this:
- he always recommends involving himself with a club through consultation, as a B2B gig (grift) with his consultation firm 'Rangnick Kornetka Consulting'. This way he is never directly on club books and therefore easily able to leverage his influence on player and manager transfers.

You must be really dirty to be called dirty in Russia.

Don't get me started on his escapades in RB, and it is utter ignorance for many to think that Nagelsmann would ever consider coaching us when Ralf is still here. Matter of fact, let's forget a progressive coach, as many are not willing to work with him. Our young coaches did not just leave the club, they escaped Ralf.
The lengths you will go to deflect away from Martial is truly amazing, bravo, standing ovation for this man.

Ralf was in Russia for less than 6 months, give it a rest.
 

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these sorts of feuds are useful to get rid of overpaid players. fergie used to also end up in similar situations with players he wanted rid of. by waging war, the hope is that martial will be willing to drop his wage demands in order to get out. i think the move also reinforces rangnick’s power in the locker room as his comments are effectively devaluing the player. martial will probably make less money as a result of all this as he now looks unprofessional. rangnick then has a credible threat in dealing with other players who refuse to fall in line. the downside for the club is that we probably are also gonna make less on a transfer fee.
 

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these sorts of feuds are useful to get rid of overpaid players. fergie used to also end up in similar situations with players he wanted rid of. by waging war, the hope is that martial will be willing to drop his wage demands in order to get out. i think the move also reinforces rangnick’s power in the locker room as his comments are effectively devaluing the player. martial will probably make less money as a result of all this as he now looks unprofessional. rangnick then has a credible threat in dealing with other players who refuse to fall in line. the downside for the club is that we probably are also gonna make less on a transfer fee.
If that means we have a squad that wants to be here and wants to play, and we actually win stuff, I couldn't care less.
 

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Pure semantics that. If he was given the choice and said no, he refused.

Radnick no doubt knows that the desire to play has to come from the player, otherwise it's pointless including him.
It's hardly semantics to say there's a difference between refusing to go and turning down the chance to go.
 

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- that Maldini would give Milan an ultimatum to leave if they hired you
To be fair, Maldini has always been open about wanting a job where he gets to make big decisions. The role milan wanted to give Rangnick was that of manager, in the british style, which would have made Maldini kind of superflous. Hence why he was going to quit if they hired RR
 

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He has to just accept the wage of the new club he wants to play for. He has the option of staying here collecting his wage or accept what another club is prepared to pay you. United are under obligation to pay half his wages at another club.
 

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I don't believe that Martial refused to be part of the squad, it makes no sense to me.

Ralf is lying.
Martial fanboy alert.

What possible benefit would Ralf get from lying about that? He doesn't have a side here and didn't cause the issues with Martial.


Martial probably found out he was benched and Elanga was starting and had a strop about it. In fact I'm certain that's what's happened.

Get rid.
 

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He's barely a squad player any more and the hope that he'd live up to his potential died about 3 years ago...why we drag on sagas like these I have no idea.

Player wants to go, hasn't shown anything close to a sustained level to warrant wanting to keep him...get what you can for them and move them on ASAP.
 

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Martial fanboy alert.

What possible benefit would Ralf get from lying about that? He doesn't have a side here and didn't cause the issues with Martial.


Martial probably found out he was benched and Elanga was starting and had a strop about it. In fact I'm certain that's what's happened.

Get rid.
Calling him out as a Martial fanboy doesn't reflect well on your post. What you suggest is pure guesswork, mate.
 

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It's the difference between net and gross, without and with tax. £135000 per week with tax on top is around £243000 per week. Therefore he's on about £7m per year before tax. The other one coming up recently is Henderson he's on about £55000 per week net. 100k per week is the gross figure.

As Martial wants a transfer abroad rather than in England the without tax price is the most important to agents discussing it with journalists. With Sevilla, Spanish tax is higher than ours I think so they will have to pay him more than the £250kpw here and with Juve Italian tax is lower? 10%?? so maybe they will only have to pay him 150kpw.

Also more confusion is caused as in Europe they tend to measure wages in total per year before tax i.e. the £7m per year or around €8m or €4 for 6 month loan. They also pay in lump sums 1 or 2 times per year such as January and June.

The amount per week is outdated anyway. It comes from pay given in cash each week in the 1960's. It's ridiculous we still use it but journalists like it and it's the way its always been done so it must be the best way!!!

UK journalists always mix up net and gross, as well as euros and pounds. They always choose the highest figure with us with a negative spin and the lower figure and a positive spin with our rivals and yet all the wage bills are roughly the same around £300 to £350m per year. If Martial and Henderson played for Liverpool UK journalists would say they are on 135kpw and 55kpw as Liverpool are great with money but we are idiot's with money so they are on a ridiculous 250kpw and 100kpw, yet our wage bills are the basically the same. They just sell their players we don't. We hold on to ours for too long.
United pay the gross. Let's not lose sight of that detail.
 

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Adult fan boys are, adult fan boys of a player of this standard, even weirder. To still see some Utd fans siding with him is bonkers.
It's all guesswork anyone siding with Ralf or Martial.
 

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I don't even care if Rangnick is lying. It's the right thing to do. No more kid gloves.

You're not wanted or needed here so feck off.
 

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Perhaps, but Martial has shown in the past he's a bit of sulker, and I just can't see Ralf coming in and lying like that, he's nothing to gain from putting that sort of thing out there.
Ralf should be careful with his words. He's actually reducing an asset price of a player belonging to the club. These issues should be kept behind the scenes and not for public consumption.
 

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Calling him out as a Martial fanboy doesn't reflect well on your post. What you suggest is pure guesswork, mate.
I can't think of a single reason why Ralf would lie about this? What does he gain from it? He didn't cause the issues we have.

I think it's about time his fans accept the situation. He's a gutless coward and a real sulk.
 

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I can't think of a single reason why Ralf would lie about this? What does he gain from it? He didn't cause the issues we have.

I think it's about time his fans accept the situation. He's a gutless coward and a real sulk.
Agree with this. Amazed he still has people defending him after the dross he's served up these last couple of years.
Ralf should be careful with his words. He's actually reducing an asset price of a player belonging to the club. These issues should be kept behind the scenes and not for public consumption.
Agree with this too. We don't want to devalue him.
 

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Ralf should be careful with his words. He's actually reducing an asset price of a player belonging to the club. These issues should be kept behind the scenes and not for public consumption.
How much more can his value decline? He's on very high wages, has been performing poorly for over a year and looks unmotivated on the pitch and his agent has told the press he wants to leave?
 

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Im willing to bet Martial will be available for Brentford
Not having a go but genuine question: at this point why would you defend Martial? He's been dross for a couple of seasons now, doesn't look arsed and wants to leave.
Because regardless of how shit he has been the past 2 seasons he is still better than what we have leading the line in my own opinion. I dont think Cavani, rashford or Ronaldo can lead the line better than him. You should ask yourself why a club like United cant find better than him. The club thought it was smart buying a 36 year old player who relies on the whole team serving him. Ole was trying to build a dynamic attacking side and decides to buy a 36 year old player on the decline? If the team was flourishing Martial wouldn't have any defenders on this forum but we are not. As shite as Cavani was yesterday Rangnick would still come out and beg him to stay. Im still hopeful we can turn our season around and for now I will back him till its clear he has disrespected the club which he claims he didn't.
 

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Im willing to bet Martial will be available for Brentford

Because regardless of how shit he has been the past 2 seasons he is still better than what we have leading the line in my own opinion. I dont think Cavani, rashford or Ronaldo can lead the line better than him. You should ask yourself why a club like United cant find better than him. The club thought it was smart buying a 36 year old player who relies on the whole team serving him. Ole was trying to build a dynamic attacking side and decides to buy a 36 year old player on the decline? If the team was flourishing Martial wouldn't have any defenders on this forum but we are not. As shite as Cavani was yesterday Rangnick would still come out and beg him to stay. Im still hopeful we can turn our season around and for now I will back him till its clear he has disrespected the club which he claims he didn't.
Fair play mate. I reckon both Ronaldo and Cavani offer more leading the line than him by some distance but it's all opinions.
 

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Martial fanboy alert.

What possible benefit would Ralf get from lying about that? He doesn't have a side here and didn't cause the issues with Martial.


Martial probably found out he was benched and Elanga was starting and had a strop about it. In fact I'm certain that's what's happened.

Get rid.
100% this. Rangnick is here as an interim and consultant. His reputation is intact no matter how this ends up. In Germany he’s lauded and respected while United in their view is an incompetent mess. So if Ralf who has no motivation to protect himself or reputation is calling out Martial who has pulled stunts like this in the past, then who’s more likely to be believed?

The fact some are siding with Martial shows the problem with this club and its supporters. The fact the mod is entertaining the idea that Martial’s side might be true is absolutely comical. Use some common sense and you’ll know Martial is on his heels trying to salvage his reputation since he wants to move on from the club.
 

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I don’t get what Ragnick would gain from publicly lying about Martial?

There’s no reason for Ragnick to lie but plenty for Martial to. Logically Martial is lying.

I say this as someone who really liked Martial as a player.
 

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I don't think he's fulfilled his potential, and now the time is right to part ways, the trouble is he's on a massive wage other clubs won't pay, and he wants to leave so it's up to him to take the pay cut, if that's what it's all about?
He's asked to leave , he's supposedly didn't want to be in the match day squad on Saturday. It's not working between RR and him so part ways, or one them has to grow a pair and get on with it. Or leave the new guy in The summer sort it out.
Personally I'd rather we sell him .
 

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Look at the mess we are in, can it happen in Ancelotti madrid, or Bayern now? Hell No.

Open the door and let him go even if it is for £5m, let him go.
 

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Fair play mate. I reckon both Ronaldo and Cavani offer more leading the line than him by some distance but it's all opinions.
It’s not just goals I’m looking at but martial makes others around him much better. Our best spell under Ole saw multiple players scoring. Ronaldo has suffocated the goals out of those around him. I’m more focused on the whole team performing as a Unit rather than one player. I like a fluid attack which is why I prefer martial over the 2 not because I think he is better which is a whole other argument.
 

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I don’t get what Ragnick would gain from publicly lying about Martial?

There’s no reason for Ragnick to lie but plenty for Martial to. Logically Martial is lying.

I say this as someone who really liked Martial as a player.
It is possible that Martial said something along the lines of I don’t feel ready to play or mentally in the right place to give my all. We’ve heard this a thousand times when there is transfer speculation on players that they aren’t in the right head space to play.

Maybe Martial said something along those lines and Ragnic put forth what he said but neither being fluent English speakers wires got crossed and he is taking it as just him refusing to play or maybe he himself didn’t understand that the way he says that to the press makes that an entirely different situation.

Either way it seems clear to me Martial wants to leave so if a half decent offer comes in might as well send him on his way.
 

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Some of you guys really think that post was written by a PR company? I think you’re missing the whole point of PR if you do. That’s obviously him. There’s no polish to it at all. I’d imagine there’s just some communication breakdown behind the scenes to what Ralf said. In everyone’s mind Martial is gone. Ralf probably just knew he couldn’t fully rely on him so didn’t pick him. End of story. Bags are packed just waiting for the right number to arrive. Its Ralfs prerogative to pick the most motivated players.
 

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i feel as though there is a mighty problem on your (and many clubs' hands) - wages.
world football is, for the most part, trying to reduce player wages, or at least stifle the growth of them as much as possible. it's why a lot of big names are expiring (and will continue to expire) with players taking te best financial offer, regardless of where it may be.

a player like martial, is he likely to want to reduce his wages? and if not, what club in their right mind takes him on, seeing how his united tenure is coming to an end?

ownerships are going to start thinking longer and harder than ever when it comes to contracts/wages.... heck, even top players are having a harder time now.
 

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Weird that some are siding with a player who embodies laziness and wants to leave the club because he thinks he’s better than he actually is.
He won’t even take a pay cut, so let him rot in the reserves.
 

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Ralf should be careful with his words. He's actually reducing an asset price of a player belonging to the club. These issues should be kept behind the scenes and not for public consumption.
Does that really matter? We're not a player trading company, we're a football club who aim to be competitive at a sport. I couldn't care less if Martial's value was reduced to 0 personally, I just want the bad eggs gone and harmony/good performances/winning things to return.
 

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The fact this group of players are still able to pull the wool over some of your eyes is incredible. Martial has literally done the same thing before and then threw Jose under the bus after he was sacked. These are players who feel they have zero accountability to anyone- managers, club or fans. The sooner we start turning on them, stop showing up at games home and away and hit them with abuse they rightly deserve, will they consider changing. They do not care about you, the fake apologies sum it all up. Make players like Pogba, Rashford, Bruno, Lingard and Maguire feel your wrath. They are just as accountable to us as they are to the club. They failed to turn up for a club legend in Ole and are seemingly ignoring another in Ronaldo. This is a rotten core. Stop turning on your fellow supporter and let them have it on social media, at games etc.
 
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