This guy should retire from football early, he’s given up.
Anthony Martial | Sevilla loan watch
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seems like he's been as poor in Spain as he was for us
Anelka was much much better player.
He's foolish for leaving us high and dry and will get a deserved humbling. All our strikers are having the same disasterclass season so he would have gotten some play if he was patient. Instead convinced himself he would be more than a squad player somewhere else. I think these players don't know just how good they had it, maybe a little too good.
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I’m not convinced we’re going to land a striker in the summer so I’m already coming to terms with him starting most games next season…
This sums it up really. We've got over paid players with no hunger left that can't even star for lower ranked teams.
Martial went there with a fanfare and can't even be bothered a few months later. It seems like he wants to play football at a walking pace, but still be regarded as a top talent. What a waste.
Martial went there with a fanfare and can't even be bothered a few months later. It seems like he wants to play football at a walking pace, but still be regarded as a top talent. What a waste.
Anelka came across in a similar way to Martial (although no one here really knows anything other than what the media writes). But I agree with you, that’s where the comparison ends. Anelka was twice the player Martial is.
Too many spoilt brats with big egos
Never quite their fault is it, always somebody else's.
Out best chance is Newcastle fancy a shiny new toy as most clubs won't touch him with his wages, similar to other players we have on ridiculously overpaid wages
On the bright side about 5 are ooc this summer..........
Just Rashford and Martial to sell if we cab
Never quite their fault is it, always somebody else's.
Out best chance is Newcastle fancy a shiny new toy as most clubs won't touch him with his wages, similar to other players we have on ridiculously overpaid wages
On the bright side about 5 are ooc this summer..........
Just Rashford and Martial to sell if we cab
Maybe if it smells like shit everywhere you go you should check your own pants right Tony ?
How ironic, he would have probably got more game time at United
Anelka played to a high class standard up to the age of around 32. Martial downed tools at 22. There's no comparison here.
Also Anelka was a bigger Cnut than Martial will ever be.
This will happen to Rashford too if he leaves. If he can't find enough passion to put the work in with ManUnited chances are he wouldn't with another team.
Because both him and Martial don't look disinterested with the club but they look disinterested with football.
Because both him and Martial don't look disinterested with the club but they look disinterested with football.
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It’s a really good comp in my opinion. Anelka just over 200 goals in his club career, Tony at just over 100 so far.
It’s truly an indictment on Tony that he’s been underwhelming at Sevilla as well. How did Ole manage to get so much out of him in 19-20?
I dont get it. Why do they want Martial pics? Weird one.
God, even they're sick of MartialFC and its only been a couple of months. 
Jesus. So the “Martial FC” weirdos are club agnostic? They follow their boy wherever he ends up? Fecking loopers, every one of them.
Great news!
Anelka was much better in adapting to new environment. he was just difficult to manage, but he can look after himself.
With Greenwood’s football career coming to a premature end, Martial really needs to seize the opportunity to reboot, so to speak, his career when he returns to OT.
And what are the chances he will do so? He is a mood player and not pushing enough. We really have to get rid
Apparently his wife left him too, and posted it on her Instagram.
Once you’ve lost the hunger for what you do, there’s no coming back from that. I can’t think of a single example of a player who was amazing, lost it and then became amazing again.
Here it is. Seems Martial heard that first line before and took it too literally..
“Sometimes to win a race you have to stop running… I’m not used to speaking out about my private life… but for everyone’s happiness and future I have to do it today . There is no such thing as an easy breakup, but it can be done with the utmost respect and modesty on my part. Life together is a long road often strewn with pitfalls. Giving up is not part of my character but this is where our paths diverge. Almost 3 years since we said “yes” I thought for life unfortunately love was not enough. It is impossible for me to put HERE words on what I feel because my pain cannot be written. However, our priority is and will remain the well-being of Swan”.
The chances are not great for Tony. He looks a broken man.
there’s more than a few here that’ll be ecstatic that he’s single now. word of caution though, i guarantee he’s a lazy lover.
The second time in his united career?
An interesting observation. There have to be a few examples of a great player having lost it and becoming again, but I can't think of a single example, at least not in any team sport. Sometimes you see a golfer in steep decline pull out one last hurrah over a glorious weekend. But over a season...it's unheard of.
Could be wrong but i doubt we're getting rid of him after this loan, with his wages and his united career is probably dependent on who comes in next (unless a club with more money than sense comes in for him ....you know you want to Newcastle!). Maybe Poch could get him firing again but I read that Erik ten Hag can be pretty uncompromising in what he demands from players.
And now if he returns to United and looks lazy and plays shit as usual, we will hear it’s because his wife left him from Martial fc. He was never this bad, you can see in his body language how depressed he is. He is going through a tough time in life, once he gets over it we will see a different Martial, Reborn.
And when it would be pointed out he’s been this bad for quite a while, the stats of 20 plus goals would be slapped on our faces repeatedly. Suggestions of selling him would be met by giving the label of “most toxic fanbase in the world”.
And when it would be pointed out he’s been this bad for quite a while, the stats of 20 plus goals would be slapped on our faces repeatedly. Suggestions of selling him would be met by giving the label of “most toxic fanbase in the world”.
The explosiveness is gone and change of direction speed is gone. This might be physical even theough he's always been languid and lazy.
I watch all his games at Seville. He still has tight dribbling and nice touch, but he's heavy footed and a step behind.
I watch all his games at Seville. He still has tight dribbling and nice touch, but he's heavy footed and a step behind.
We adopted a strategy of giving players huge contracts somewhere around the time Fergie and Gill left. As if United needed to entice players to come to our club because we pay more than anyone else. Forget the prestige of playing for one of the biggest clubs in world football. At that time we also brought in a lot of average players. I think those big contracts took away a lot of the desire of the players we signed too. Its common in a lot of sports, they say once you hit the big time your hunger for success dwindles. You reap what you sow. The club have created a bunch of overpaid prima Donna's who have achieved nothing except getting paid off a big contract.
Oh wow. That sounds personal. Was it the sub minute or the refusal to get up and pass the bowl of mille-feuille?
Martial is a very technical and skilled footballer. He also isn't as lazy as some make it seem. He will do the defensive work. His biggest problem is his footballing brain. He doesn't see space. He always wants ball to feet so his off the ball movement is basic. He is too reactionary and doesn't anticipate. Throw in some poor body language and it's easy not to like him...
Anelka. He completely lost it at one point but he was amazing again with Chelsea late in his career.
It's his application that's shite. It doesn't take much brain to run into space or Rashford would find himself running out of the stadium. He is just lazy and can't be arsed to even do a half-jog. Poor application and work ethic is a death sentence for talent.
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Sid Lowe said on football weekly that he's been "Pretty much irrelevant. Worse than irrelevant so far". Typically he's fairly positive so Martial must be totally sh!te.
Should have got a pen for Sevilla but it's Barca, so of course no pen.