Once upon a time, a trio of Martial, Rashford, and Bruno were a sight to behold. Was it his goal against City? a quick free-kick by Bruno that only Martial would understand.
9
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 19
- Goals
- 2
- Assists
- 1
- Yellow cards
- 0
Of course he won't get a top club. He's been utterly destroyed by injury and can barely get on the pitch.
I really do think some of the vitriol at him is unfair. He was our best player in 19/20, then the next year at only 24 years old his body started falling apart. The way people go on about it you'd think he was pulling a Sancho and just sitting at home because he didn't feel like playing.
Nonsense he's just been really unfortunate with injuries which have ruined him.
Any of our best spells of performances in the last few years involved him as a starter, levels ahead of the dross we serve up now without him.
The only passable season he's had in the last 4 years was last season, and one ok/decent season in 4 years is unacceptable, especially at that wage. At least Luke Shaw can put one good season in each time before he has his inevitable collapse the following year.
I feel for him as it's not his fault he's injured and finished at the age of 28 but what absolute ineptitude it was giving him that contract. 19 goals in 4 years is just wretched.
Easy to say now but he had his best season the year after signing the contract.
We still played our best football of the last few years whenever he could stay fit for a run of games.
He tore up Sevilla in the first game last season creating both goals. Fit and firing Martial is a sight to behold.
Where's Tony? If he can get fit he can start at leftback v Sheff Utd 
Farewell sweet prince 
I'm still holding onto my wild dream that he comes back and helps us win the FA Cup, ending his tenure with United like he started it, in year 9 as well
Just goes to show that environment, luck and management plays as big, if not bigger, role in a footballer's success as much as your quality. In the beginning this guy never had issues with fitness, his lack of game time mainly being due to a manager that never knew how to deal with mercurial talents. In come Ole, with unbelievable selfishness for short time gain in hindsight, who forces him to play through injury for a sustained period, and now we have a seriously injury prone player whose carrier is going down the drain (no pun intended).
I'm still holding onto my wild dream that he comes back and helps us win the FA Cup, ending his tenure with United like he started it, in year 9 as well
Just goes to show that environment, luck and management plays as big, if not bigger, role in a footballer's success as much as your quality. In the beginning this guy never had issues with fitness, his lack of game time mainly being due to a manager that never knew how to deal with mercurial talents. In come Ole, with unbelievable selfishness for short time gain in hindsight, who forces him to play through injury for a sustained period, and now we have a seriously injury prone player whose carrier is going down the drain (no pun intended
).Still our best striker and probably the best striker in the years he's been here bar Zlatan. Says everything about Utd.
Why does martial get such harsh treatment but hojlund is forgiven for non existent displays this season when the reality is when both are fit martial is the better striker option
Probably cause one has been here about 8 months and the other 9 years, so giving they are giving a young lad the benefit of the doubt over someone that is a known quantity. Also the Martial that is a better striker option only exists about 4 years ago. As meh as Holljund has been at times, he has a larger goal tally than Martial's last 3 seasons combined.
Because he's the shiny new signing and they said we'd be much better with Martial out of the team.
To be fair, many posters were shitting on Martial even when he had his 'prime'. He didnt run enough, he sulked because he got competition and he didnt smile enough were some of the made up reasons for not liking him for example. Martial was never liked much by the fanbase on this forum.
Such a shame that Martial hasnt been able to build upon his best years. Had he been able to do so, he would have been amongst the best strikers in the world and Hojlund would have been an excellent young understudy.
Anthony Martial indeed would have been an exceptional footballer, had he given a shit.
Except ‘Martial FC’. He has divided opinions, and understandably so. His best period as a player for me, under Ole in 2020, was good enough for a United striker, but alas and alack, as with so many others, lasted way too short. It felt like missing two sitters vs Sevilla and the EL final that covid crazy autumn was the beginning of the fall for him at United. Injuries, self confidence, whatnot. I think his loan spell with Sevilla was when the penny finally dropped for me, that he for some reason would never be a solid Plan A for us, even though he had quite a few fairly good performances for Ten Hag last year inbetween more injuries. I think probably both the doubters and the lovers where onto something with him, but certainly a great ‘what if’-player. That season when we had just come 2nd in the league and lost the EL final on 22 penalties, I think some of us should be forgiven for dreaming of a team consisting of the best versions of Pogba, Bruno, Martial, Rashford and Sancho hitting full bloom, particularily after winning 5-1 in the opener (Pogba four assists, Bruno hattrick, Sancho and Rashford not even starting).