Proper dedication to faking injury when you have surgery as well.
Martial exit?
- Thread starter Giggsyking
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Good riddance you lazy fecker!
We all thought we had signed a future world class striker back in 2015.
Turns out we signed one of the laziest and moodiest players this club has ever seen.
A true brat in every sense.
We all thought we had signed a future world class striker back in 2015.
Turns out we signed one of the laziest and moodiest players this club has ever seen.
A true brat in every sense.
A shame how it’s ending. Possibly the most talented player we’ve had since Fergie’s time. He was so ridiculously good at 19, I’ve never been more convinced that one of our young players would become a world-beater. Hope he gets a final match. He’s not blameless at all but he’s also been managed horribly by several managers, overplaying him through injury or replacing him with inferior players when he was in red-hot form.
Signed the wrong Monaco forward.
Who was the right one?
Wasn't Berbatov there at the same time as Martial?
Well we signed peak Berba and he didn’t really cut the mustard. Silky touch but not enough goals
Prime example of how talent doesn't get you to the top without work effort and resilience.
I was just about to say we gave him far too many chances, but then again we gave him his latest contract just before he actually had a very good season for us. At least we're not triggering his one-year extension. Not sure we could have gotten rid much earlier than now, unless we just straight up paid out his contract.
I was just about to say we gave him far too many chances, but then again we gave him his latest contract just before he actually had a very good season for us. At least we're not triggering his one-year extension. Not sure we could have gotten rid much earlier than now, unless we just straight up paid out his contract.
Just like many other united players he wont find a club.
I sincerely hope he doesn’t!
Tata bye bye
That new contract has to go down as one of the worst decisions in the post-Ferguson era.
Not even just in hindsight, it was ridiculous at the time and simply got worse and worse.
Not even just in hindsight, it was ridiculous at the time and simply got worse and worse.
Mbappe .
Linked with him just before his breakout season.
I think the papers had Monaco quote him at around 60 million.
Can't wait til he's gone. He's the poster boy of this rotten decade of utd for me.. and i believe he and his like with toxic vibes need to be removed from the club to get it going up again. Unfortunately we've moved toxic personalities on before,pogs and Jesse. But then we find more like sancho. Some of the most unprofessional athletes out there. Then put them all together. Disaster
Well I hope we see him on the pitch for us again this season, at least in final weeks when games won't matter anyway. Injuries ruined him but his first 5 years at the club were either promising, decent of really good like 19/20 season.
You can't be serious.,
As my five year old is wont to say: no one cares.
I do. Sad that our fans write this kind of stuff.
He was an exciting young attacker but recency bias has really soured what was a decent United career. Came in under LVG and gave us a great season and, in honesty, he was good until 19/20 since he joined us (even factoring in Mou not rating him and him not really playing much). With that season being his peak as a CF (23 goals, 11 assists in 48 games is class) and scoring for fun + being a good hold up player.
Post that season with Ole he's been poor, injured a lot and our fans have turned on him but he tried to and wanted to leave. Indeed we have actively tried to sell him but we can't sell anything.
Really? I forgot he was even still with us until I saw this thread bumped. If that’s the case then we’re definitely not seeing him in a United shirt again… not even some end of season run out. Deservedly so too.
He had injuries but he didn’t have the personality for it (seems too pampered, entitled and not up for the fight). It can’t be a coincidence that every time we seemingly bought a new forward over the years, his form dropped like a stone.
9 years at the club this summer. Mental.
FFS just short of a testimonial. Get him a contract extension pronto
But what about the balon d'Or clause? 
Should have gone fecking years ago.
His final match should have been about 3 years ago.
I've said it numerous times, that game against Sheffield Utd where Utd were losing and he was just stood still while players ran around him should have been the last time he ever put on the jersey.
Well we wanted both, I rember Reading in multiple sources that we did want Mbabe. We were told PSG had already secured the transfer.
They wanted stupid money for a kid who’d never kicked a football in the seniors. He was well known amongst scouts around Europe, but I don’t think the club were wrong to balk at the silly prices Monaco were looking for at the time. Hindsight obviously makes us look a little silly.
has turkish league written all over him
Is this news? I thought this was already decided?!
£1 million a month off the wage bill, basically been a nothing player for 2-3 years and a complete waste of money which is a shame to an extent based on how good he was in that debut season but lack of effort and lack of desire on top of bad management and being made of glass has brought it to this point.
Yeah this is more of a confirmation of what we already knew.
Sad to say, but we've made much worse signings than Martial post Fergie.
Pity his next club though.
Pity his next club though.
Class player. Fergie would have gotten the best out of him.
Played his best years with selfish english brats like Rashy and Greenwood. Overplayed and poorly managed.
Made the scapegoat every time but each time he was vindicated. Cavani was poor. Ronaldo couldn’t do shit. Hoijland is awful now.
Obviously it wasn’t Martial or the other strikers/CFs who were the problem - if only dumb fans could see how disjointed we are.
Martial was never the player to shine in a team of individuals. Heck, he never even took shots on goal - his game is all about link up. I hope he finds a good team and finishes his career on a high in the CL
Played his best years with selfish english brats like Rashy and Greenwood. Overplayed and poorly managed.
Made the scapegoat every time but each time he was vindicated. Cavani was poor. Ronaldo couldn’t do shit. Hoijland is awful now.
Obviously it wasn’t Martial or the other strikers/CFs who were the problem - if only dumb fans could see how disjointed we are.
Martial was never the player to shine in a team of individuals. Heck, he never even took shots on goal - his game is all about link up. I hope he finds a good team and finishes his career on a high in the CL
Sad end to his United career. He might just have been the most naturally gifted player in technical terms I’ve seen come through in the post SAF era. But he’s just never had the mentality or fitness levels of a great player.
We should have gone for Isak as a replacement who reminds me a lot of Martial.
We should have gone for Isak as a replacement who reminds me a lot of Martial.
Anthony Martial will be remembered as a wasted talent who sulked whenever things didn’t go perfectly for him.
Another example of our profligacy in handing out contract extensions like candy. We have allowed this guy to spend 9 seasons at the club...Nine seasons! The last contract extension on top wages for the Glazer's Pele was ridiculous. He should have been shown the door 3-4 seasons ago.
It’s time I said it one last time. I fecking love Martial. He had it all. From a technical standpoint he was a match winner with almost world class potential. He was a cold finisher. I don’t know much about his personal life but he feels to me like Sancho or Rashford. Potentially unplayable and even generational but something just isn’t there. They were all on the same level as Saka at one point (and Rashford with mbappe lol) The money they got is too crazy but from now on hopefully certain players who have been overpaid will be more nervous about their performances and professionalism. At one point Martial was carrying us in the way Rashford was last year. They were similar level talents. Sancho Greenwood Antony and Pogba too. We can’t catch a break. I’m convinced if we’d signed Haaland, Camavinga, Nuno Gomes Bellingham and Caciedo we’d probably somehow still be totally crap.
It’s going to be fun hopefully watching us do the right things for the first time in a long time
It’s going to be fun hopefully watching us do the right things for the first time in a long time
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A lot of half truths are being said here. A young Martial would probably do better with prime SAF because prime SAF would not allow players like Martial to lazy around. If he did, then he would be on the way out. United's over sentimentality is what is ruining this club. There's always seem to be an excuse whether its injury/illness, mental problems, off the pitch issues, players who have issues at home, players who have issues with the manager, the training regime. Well guess what? Those same players expect United to still pay them silly salaries despite them not delivering the goods.
Its time United start acting like a top club. Yes we pay huge salaries, yes players should expect the best facilities, the best football people etc (something United must provide) but the club should also expect the best players and professionalism at all times. Players on 200k-300k a week should be delivering the goods at every single game. That mean run like crazy, having regular 7/10 performances and act professional at all times. Ask yourself whether the likes of Martial, Rashford, Sancho and co would survive at Real with that attitude or how their fans and board would act at Casemiro jogging at the Bernabeu as he's doing at OT. I'll tell you, they would rip them into shreds.
Its time United start acting like a top club. Yes we pay huge salaries, yes players should expect the best facilities, the best football people etc (something United must provide) but the club should also expect the best players and professionalism at all times. Players on 200k-300k a week should be delivering the goods at every single game. That mean run like crazy, having regular 7/10 performances and act professional at all times. Ask yourself whether the likes of Martial, Rashford, Sancho and co would survive at Real with that attitude or how their fans and board would act at Casemiro jogging at the Bernabeu as he's doing at OT. I'll tell you, they would rip them into shreds.
Well Mourinho called him out but Martial FC was too strong at that time. Even Woodward was a part of it.
fans have limited knowledge on what's going behind the scenes, they are passionate and they are naturally biased. That's why I try not to go hard on fellow posters even when they go hard on me. I am not immune to bias myself. I was livid when Ince left the club only to learn, years later, what a difficult person he is to work with.
The club is different though. The club appoint people who have a full picture of what's going on + they are paid handsomely to take the tough decisions. The club must always come first, no matter what. That's something United hasn't been following for at least 15 years