Thanks for jogging my memory of him here. How many poor seasons did he have with us?
The only season he performed well consistently after his first was the one where no other striker directly competing with him and no crowd in the stadium.
If I concluded that he generally didn't respond well in tough situations based on those, it wouldn't be far stretch. Which was why I said it.
He's had three poor seasons. If we go over his time here:
15/16 - Very good debut season
16/17 - Poor. People put it down to Zlatan, but as I noted above there were plenty of other things going on.
17/18 - Fairly good. Was easily our best performing left attacker that season, but Mourinho's dislike for him meant Rashford and then Sanchez kept getting picked ahead of him despite playing much worse. The only time Jose bit the bullet and made him first choice he was our main man in attack for a month or two.
18/19 - Started the same as the previous season, being behind Sanchez until Mourinho threw Martial into the team in desperation and Martial was quite good. Unfortunately he was injured and ill for most of the second half of the season after Ole took over.
19/20 - Excellent, our player of the season.
20/21 - Very poor.
21/22 - Arguably even worse than the previous year.
So it's been 3 poor seasons, 2 fairly good seasons that he was our best performer in his position but through no fault of his own didn't get to cement his spot, and two very good seasons.