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You don't know what a title winning striker is but you know what a title winning squad is?? Anyways agree to disagree. I'm curious who you think the one or two signings should be to challenge for the title next year though
I was just matching your statement. We have a good squad already but lack depth and quality in 2 areas. We already bought bruno for one of those areas and will need to buy again for the RW. So I guess Sancho and probably another defender to partner Maguire. I like our current defenders but none of them are great partners to Maguire. Im thinking a player more aggressive than lindelof. Im also assuming we keep Pogba.
He's won the FA cup, League Cup and the Europa League, those are titles, so he is a titles winning striker
So they are inches from winning the title without a title winning striker, even without a striker.
I mean if those are the titles you prefer us winning. Wasn't even our striker those times
I mean its confusing if you don't bother looking at the rest of the post. Anyways we need a "title winning striker" because our system involves playing with a no.9 while Liverpool's system doesn't need a title winning striker because their system doesn't play with a striker.
Interesting you'd want a CB. "Quality" Depth in other areas might be a problem though. But i can see us in top 3 easily if we sign in those two positions
He actually was much better than people realize. He made a goal/assist every 81.minute he played. Very strong numbers for a new striker that had to play out of position a lot.
Keep Pogba, sign Sancho and Kane and we'd have one of our most entertaining sides in a long time which would be good enough to push for the highest honours. Maybe be a bit short in the CDM department but if Pogba goes then we could look at Ndidi which would strengthen our CB pairing.
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According to the analysis, both were in the upper percentile in Europe, meaning neither is lazy.
That's some good stuff. Calling Martial lazy is incredibly lazy analysis.
Exactly why stats are god awful proof of anything. Not to mention comparing him with Rashford who hasn’t played for god knows how long and especially while we’ve been playing better as a team.
Add Sancho and I honestly can't see how we could possibly fail to score a fecktonne of goals. But even without him it's mouthwatering. And Greenwood on the bench ffs.I’m not sure how they would register that stat because there is more to pressing than just “Jogging to the man with the ball” cutting passing lanes, setting traps organising the press. All those things for me are things Martials good at involving pressing. He’s very good at taking up position to block lanes and pretty diligent at it.
Definitely.
By a long shot. It’s actually depressing reading some of the stuff written about this guy. Close to 20 goals and still getting shitted on.
Crappy stat in what regard? Even if we dont compare him to Rashford who you say hasnt played, his off the ball percentages are in the high percentile in Europe. He isnt a lazy player. Thats it.
I think most want him to do that thing were Daniel James runs to whoever has the ball even if it takes him from the right wing to left. Nobody in the team has the lungs of Fred and James. its better to press with more intelligence.
Think it's near the Ole outs threads.
It's his off the ball movement and unwillingness to adapt his game. If he made those runs, he would potentially be the most dangerous striker in the league, but he doesn't and instead has to dribble his way past two defenders ( works 1/5 times) for him to be effective outside the box. he doesn't score tap ins and instead relies on his technical ability to score. In addition to that, he somehow lacks creativity as well, not truly seeking out his team mates. People try to act like he's a Firmino type of player, but Firmino creates lots of chances. Martial doesn't. The other day I saw a thread where someone said he was way better than Saha. What annoys me about this is that people only look at his game off of his technical skills and like Phil Jones( his was physicality) assume that he will flesh out the rest of his game so already appoint to him to a spot that he has never proven to be. Essentially, he is overrated, talented but overrated.
He is not going to make those runs when the passes are not coming from midfield. This is exactly what RVP was saying about United now. Of course this was before Bruno.
That's an excuse, Rashford makes them. Martial does not even attempt to. In the short time he's been here even Ighalo has made them. Lukaku also used to make them. Martial is simply not good off the ball. It's a part of his game that needs to develop, but he's already 24.
Absolute shite talk. Martial has scored plenty this season because of good off the ball movement.
First goal of the season vs Wolves. Recent headed goal Vs Chelsea. And so many more. Every player can't be a Luis Suarez and you don't need 11 of them in your team.
He's also quite clearly improved his off the ball movement. I see no reason why next season (or whenever this season gets going again) he doesn't improve further. He literally has all the raw ingredients and most of them have come together already, he just needs to work out the last few.
And how many games did he start as a striker in those games?
I think it was because at a point last season, when everyone was gunning for Lukaku, calling him lazy (this and that) and saying he doesn't run enough, when the stats were drawn up for distance covered per 90, Martial had the lowest average for distance covered per 90 minutes out of all top-flight forwards that season with just 8.4 km. It was only 1km per game less than Rashford however Rashford was making twice as many high intensity sprints.
His running stats last season were low. No doubt, can really guess at the reason. My annoyance stems from people's failure to look at this season and just keep dragging out the same old shite that is no longer applicable.
