Martial is currently fit and Rashford has played a lot as a striker in his career. The “we have no number 9s” statement is absurd. And if we have no #9s now, we’ll also have no #9s with Gakpo so back to square one.
We have no number 9s. Martial will be lucky to start 5 games in the second half of the season because he will spend most of it injured.
Swap Gakpo for Sancho and you literally have our current options. The suggestion that Gakpo will come in and be better than Sancho, is based on absolutely nothing.
Nothing, other than Sancho's abysmal form since coming to United, and Gakpo being the best player in the Eredivisie.
Yeah it's a different league, so what? RVN, RVP, Robben, Suarez all came from the Eredivisie. But so did Depay. De Bruyne came from the Bundesliga, but so did Sane, Schurle, Werner, Havertz, Mkhitaryan and Kagawa. And now Sancho.
If ETH thinks Gakpo is the best option for us in January and sees a long term number 9 there, then best to trust his judgement, especially when the short term stop gap options - Depay, Moussa Dembele etc - are shit.