The Class of 92 would know a lot more about what makes a United player than any of us.
After all they’ve been around the club for the better part of 3 decades. They’ve seen players come and go, and if Neville and Scholes think Martial isn’t a United player then I’m inclined to agree with them. I see nothing that suggests he will have a Giggs or a Beckham or a Best-like legacy here. Right now hes looking like an inconsistent luxury player who has more bad games than good.
Yes he’s only young but so were Memphis Depay and Wilfred Zaha. So why did we give up on them so quickly? He was our top scorer in probably our worst ever season, attacking wise. And that was almost 3 seasons ago. To put this into perspective, players like Gotze, Jese and Shaqiri were all highly rated back then. Times change.
Going forward, I don’t think he’s the right choice on the left wing. I think we need to sign someone with proper pace rather than someone who constantly wants the ball at their feet so they can attempt to dribble past 6 defenders and then sulk when it doesn’t work out.
Perisic is more fitting for the role and I can only imagine the reason the majority of United fans don’t want him is due to his age. I think that’s ridiculous. Zidane signed for Real Madrid when he was 29. And yet nowadays you get a dirty look when you suggest we sign a 30 year old world class midfielder like Nainggolan or Vidal. We have enough “prospects” in the Team. We need to sign finished products at the top of their game. That’s how Mourinho won the league before.
Martial scored last week but trust me, he will have off games again. And people will still make excuses for him. It’s the same with Luke Shaw and to a lesser extent, Herrera and Smalling. It’s like some of our fans don’t want us to win the league or something.
Agree with you wholeheartedly the class of 92 were worldclass footballers who played for utd for great many years and clearly know what they are speaking, it isn't as if one of them thought david de gea who is the world's best keeper right now is not good enough and joe hart is much better, wait neville did that but so what clearly giggs and scholes know their stuff, they never said cleverley the next great midfielder or welbeck and jonnny evans is what utd player standard is, wait wrong again but so what who doesn't make mistakes judging player even fergie did. But they surely have managerial experience that qualifies them, so what if 2 of them haven't managed even a under 9's team and the one who attempted showed how out of depth he is when he actually has to do a job and not just slag someone off , not to mention his brother was such a great success at utd as coach under our greatest mistake ever. May be they aren't as good as you think and not to forget another utd legend ferdinand has nothing but praises for martial.
You say he was our top scorer 3 seasons ago, its actually just 2 seasons ago as he has been here for 3 years including this season, and how exactly is a season where we finished 4th worse than the season we finished 7th. Also in his worst season which was last year he still had more assists than anyone in the team and was outscored by mata, pogba and zlatan, rashford and rooney all of whom except rooney played lot more minutes than him.
Also did you just compare a guy who won a Balon D'or, 2 French PoY, 1 ligue 1 PoY, Serie A PoY and a world cup final MoM award before joining Madrid with a guy whose sole award i could find was he was the Belgian league PoY 6 years ago, very similar players i must say. Also just so it isn't unfair on Perisic lets compare this year's performances of martial and the guy who you want him replaced by shall we, Perisic 20 apps 1800 mins 7 goals and 6 assists to Martial 11(9) apps 919 minuted 7 goals and 3 assists, must say martial clearly proving he isn't fit to lace Perisic's boots.
