Funny you don't mention when Martial also saved Mourinho's ass vs Newcastle in a game where a non win was about as guarantee as it could get for a sack. Jose and Ole got sacked for their own respesctive shortcomings, neither of them were good enough tbh.
It's about being realistic. Cavani/Martial/Ronaldo all gone in one summer cannot happen, specially with Rashford being in a funky situation himself. Just from a squad depth POV, I am not sure Martial will be gone.
Maybe they should just put a clause in his contract. NO WOMEN.
If all 3 left, we'd be free up a crap ton of wages and even get a smallish fee for Martial. We could very easily replace Martial with a cheap striker. The level he's been performing at means that the quality of player we'd need to buy would not be very high/expensive. I can't see how anyone can expect anything from him at this point, he doesn't even want to be here, that's not gonna change. SELL.
Well Jose still got sacked later on so that point is irrelevant. Maybe they weren’t good enough but they weren’t helped by the players who downed tools under them because they had more power than the manager. If Cavani, Ronaldo, Greenwood and Martial leave in the summer we’re in a great place to bring in two strikers who actually want to be here and will work their arse off. It’s better to have someone who believes they’ve won the lottery playing at United than it is to have someone who believes they’re being ruined by United. Look at Barcelona’s front line, they cleared house and brought players in who really aren’t good enough to pay for them but they’re doing a good job until they find quality replacements.
Do you really trust the club to do a job ala Barcelona ? I personally don't and I say this because I'm pretty sure ETH won't have 100% complete autonomy, some decisions, he will have to accept them.
1 cheap striker for 3 ? Let's say the other slot is filled with a youth player, it still makes the team depleted up front. I will say it again, keeping him won't necessary be exclusively about the football played (because he ain't good enough) but more about keeping 1 warm body in case we are hit with injuries and what not. The idea and hope would be to improve as a team so anyone brought to play wouldn't be cheap anyway
Ronaldo is a funny one, but I think he won't be going this summer.
Ronaldo is the key tbh. I just don't see how he stays, the Europa Conference is beneath him and no European football isn't something I think he'd entertain
If Ronaldo goes we need a main striker. The past year has shown us all that warm bodies for the sake of it does not work, especially if that warm body is a sulking, disinterested, and unmotivated Martial. If we need to sign 2 strikers and one is just average, it's better than keeping him. At least the average striker is likely to be hungry and not leave us a man short on the field.
That's what we all hope to see but we're talking about Man Utd, not the archetype of ideal football management. I wouldn't be surprised if Martial warm the bench next season
If he did, it’s up there with Jesus turning water into wine.
He’s going no where, the wages he’s on and United would ask for a fee. So he either takes a big pay cut or sticks around for one more season. He’ll always have admirers but it won’t be a team in the top 4 leagues
Well hes done wonders with a few players in his short career
Or he leaves Europe all together
But they actually wanted to improve and didn’t hand transfer requests in when the squad depth got improved
That’s the only feasible option if you ask me but that all depends on whether or not he fancies that. I think he’ll wait for Messi to go first.
The thing is he’s already shown he doesn’t want to fight for a place in the team, he wants it handed to him, and if we know anything about Ten Hag it’s that he won’t pick players with that attitude
Whatever happens, I hope we move on from Martial. Whether that means bringing 1 or 2 players, is fine by me
Same, there must be some up and coming young French lads we could poach? The fact we can offer young talents some first team football at United is a big win if we move this current lot on
Based on recent history I think it's best to stay away from any French lads.
If they exist and they’re good enough I don’t care where they’re from.
This is just so wrong. Martial (and Pogba and Shaw) kept Mourinho in a job for far longer than he should have been. There's been absolutely no suggestion he's ever downed tools so I'm just wondering where you're getting these notions from.
How the feck are the commentators saying "it was a good one" and "think he got the ball"? Awful tackle.
And he was already on a yellow
Don't think he's the fighter type.
Looks more like he pulled his left hamstring as he was going down?
Awful decision from the ref.
Absolutely. Still a terrible tackle, from behind, in the air with studs up and absolutely zero chance of getting the ball.
Twitter blew up over this
It's an awful tackle I agree. Never touched the ball. These Spanish referees are not very good.
