What a swizz. Let's not sell to a PL rival.
Bouhafsi: Martial wants to leave United
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Did you watch United this season? Before Sanchez arrived we were playing decent football and racked up 8 games with 4+ goals scored. After he arrived we looked absolutely fecking clueless. In fact, the amount of 4+ goals scored games after he arrived has been a grand 0. His agent is being completely logical and so is Martial. We aren't. There's no reason a player that had been voted player of the month three times had to be replaced in January.
We will be fine, much as I love the kid. Fact is, wrong manager for him. A manager who develops young forward talent wouldn’t freeze out one of the top young forwards around to replace them with Sanchez and Bale at 29. But it may we’ll bring us short term success.
He'll sign for Liverpool.....and become the best player in the world alongside Salah
Yes I am joking
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Yes I am joking
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Nope, your defender is an old defender on the decline, Martial on the contrary is on the rise. Not mutually beneficial. You will have to compensate and you don't have the means to.
He was one of our most productive players whenever he did play in terms of getting in goalscoring positions himself, creating for others, then also in his productivity in goals scored and assists, he is by a very large distance out best dribbler with the ball, one of the best finishers in the squad, the only one who plays on the left wing normally, etc....
He'll become a top class player wherever he goes, people will bring the usual bullshit up when excusing Mourinho like they do with De Bruyne/Salah, saying "why couldn't he do that here, couldn't handle the prem, was too young, blah blah blah" when in reality Mourinho just doesnt know how to handle those types of players these days. Shame.
In Levy's world 130m.
It had to happen after we cost him the World Cup place. Not surprised one bit. The least we can hope for is that we insert a buy back clause and keep control of his talent.
No. He wants to play for us, but he doesn't want to be bench player. Can't blame him. When player like lingard is selected before you then you know it is time to go.
I guess we never will see martial- lukaku- sanchez attack. But at the same time this means that we are buying attackung olayer this summer.
Freaking Mou
The likes of Juventus and Bayern have probably got raging hardons after getting this news.
Unless an attacker leaves Spurs he would also sit on the bench for them.
He is unlikely to go there if regular football is what he wants.
Why do so many want to blame the manager for Martial being a lazy feck?
Not sure if it was a 4 or 5 year contract he signed.
This will come back to haunt us. Martial was in great form until he got kicked out of the left wing to fit Sanchez in. Signing Alexis to replace Martial is a poor decision IMO.
This part I definitely agree with. I think he'll become top class wherever he goes. Just not under Mourinho here. Next season I can see him being one of the signings of the summer, but if he stays, barely any difference from the season just past. Then again, I cant ser any of our attackers really shining next season, but that's besides the point.
The World Cup is not on United, Martial never really convinced with the France team. But Martial should have been used more, he works on confidence. And with confidence, and his finishing skills, he's very interesting for any team. Any team except Mourinho's United apparently. I love Jose and support him, but he needs to find a way to use Martial.
Wonder who we'd buy.
Not surprised at all. We've handled him incredibly poorly.
Still, don't think we really need to replace him if Sanchez is staying in that LW role. Already have Rashford/Young as backup there (not ideal but it's not that bad). RW is so much more of a concern.
Still, don't think we really need to replace him if Sanchez is staying in that LW role. Already have Rashford/Young as backup there (not ideal but it's not that bad). RW is so much more of a concern.
Kind of agree with you, and I’m genuinely a big fan of his skillset. Don’t think he’s suited to Mourinho’s sink or swim management either, which doesn’t necessarily reflect poorly on any of them, just one of those things. He has shown that he is more than just what you describe though, playing one-twos, good at crossing and excellent finishing (when confident/on form). Problem is also the fact that we play in a way that doesn’t utilise more than half of those skills.
Edit: Still hope he stays
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That's the thing for me, if he stays, I don't expect any better from him in the new season. He's gone stale here, he's stagnating, and that's on him as much as it is Jose and the tactics.
Let’s get a bloody decent cash deal at least. Sick of us selling for peanuts. Hopefully that will leave room for Griezmann now!!
Never rated him as highly as some on here, nor do I think his ceiling is that high. I don’t think he has any reason to complain either. If he wants to go, go ahead.
Maybe the question should be why are others being picked ahead of him?
Unless you think Mourinho just has some irrational random dislike towards him?
Dybala swap anyone?
We didn't cost him his World Cup place. He wasn't getting in that squad based on his form from August-January. Deschamps isn't a big fan and Martial definitely wasn't out performing the likes of Mbappe, Thauvin, Payet etc. Give it a rest.
Oh no we did worse in the second half of the season! It's hardly been fecking devastating, calm down.
No, he doesn't want to play for 'us'. He wants to play. Given that his agent was talking up a move to Sevilla season before last he's not particularly bothered where he plays. His agent's talk of loyalty and commitment is absolutely hilarious.
He doesn't give a shit about us.
I don't see how the club will recover from this.How will we survive as a club.
Would be genuinely gutted if he left.
How does this make him lazy? Sanchez has been mediocre yet played the bulk of minutes all because he was a January signing with a reputation.
He is though and a minority of our fanbase have convinced themselves he is an average player to support mourinho. Thats why you see bs like martial fc.
How many more players are we going to say the same about in the future? It's quite baffling that top players look fantastic at anywhere but United. Something has to change.
Don't like that he's leaving, mostly because we never tried Sanchez on the right with Martial on left. But overall, not too concerned about it. Hasn't lived up to his potential from his first season and even now that's all everyone is still talking about, the player he will become not the player we are actually selling.
Exactly, Deschamps had some comments about him but people act like he had a secure place for Russia already.
One of the main tenets of Martial FC members.
What's the point of tackling semantics on a discussion board? Add something insightful mate.
Anyone trying to absolve Mourinho of any blame in this story, is laughable. You can question Martial's attitude as much as you want, any United fan with a bit of sense will tell you Jose handled the Alexis introduction pathetically. As a result we went out of the CL, and we unsettled our best attacking talent. Well done, I say.
It's funny to watch some of the rewriting of history on here. Bollocks about attitude based on facial expressions and (granted) poor off the ball movement.
Martial was very impressive up until the end of January. He was playing quite often and taking almost every substitute opportunity with a goal.
Pretending that he's played like a halfwit demeans debate entirely.
If he leaves we're weaker, less likely to score goals and the next poor sod that replaces him will greet the apathy and struggle to rise above the general malaise. Can't wait.
Martial was very impressive up until the end of January. He was playing quite often and taking almost every substitute opportunity with a goal.
Pretending that he's played like a halfwit demeans debate entirely.
If he leaves we're weaker, less likely to score goals and the next poor sod that replaces him will greet the apathy and struggle to rise above the general malaise. Can't wait.
Can't blame him. Wherever he goes, he will prove to be a top-class talent.
He'll be the next in Mourinho's worryingly long line of world-class rejects. I'd rather keep Martial and see the back of Mourinho.
He'll be the next in Mourinho's worryingly long line of world-class rejects. I'd rather keep Martial and see the back of Mourinho.
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