Yep, that looks like a insane reset for the EPL. So many high earners sold to Saudi leauge.
Martial exit?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Especially for wasteful top teams, it's dug the likes of Chelsea out of a hole. Even us to an extent.
If we can get any sort of fee for Martial and get him off the wage bill that would be an incredible bonus.
I wouldn't even try and haggle for fear they walk away, just accept any offer
I wouldn't even try and haggle for fear they walk away, just accept any offer
Pack him in Eric Bailly’s bags to Al Nassr and say no return policy.
It’s not just last season is it? Plus he is still out now, he didn’t have any stress on his body for two seasons and it has made little difference.
This level of blind naivety in 2023 when it comes to Martial is crazy. He’s cooked, done and a total unreliable player. He’s basically been a backup for years due to his inability to be consistently available.
Just because he was last fit approx. 7 years ago doesn't mean he'll be fit next season
He seems like the perfect Saudi team transfer, technically still in his prime years, he is well known name within football, when fit there could be debate for him being the best player in the Saudi league if joined and surely he knows his career is likely never going to ever flourish again for both man united and for France with his injury issues and he can go to a team that are even more stupid than united in given him unjustified high wages
Gotta get that summer holiday in while you can to be fair
Hopefully the Saudi teams can take all of our deadwood because that is probably the only way of getting rid of them.
Don't get excited guys. Tony would be lucky to pass a medical
"But you haven't heard what we are prepared to pay"
Would be good to receive, say, a 10m fee for him.
Who do we play striker for the 60 odd games next season? Martial still played 29 games last season despite all his injuries. Lack of striker depth cost us last season, and it’s mid-July and we’ve got nobody new in, I don’t see how Martial leaving on top is going to help things.
Playing 29 games means nothing when you don’t contribute anything valuable and cost 15M in salary every season. Plus his negative attitude. I‘d rather promote a youth player than drag this expensive walking injury on for another season.
We are going to sign a new striker and seems that Sancho is going to be converted to be a striker. Don't forget we may have a certain someone back too.
If we can get a fee for Martial then running with new striker and Sancho as a false 9 isnt the worst idea.
If Bailly is going for 20 M (though that sounds highly doubtful), we shd be asking 40-50 M for Martial.
If we do manage to sell Martial. We shd be looking to sign another attacker unless we plan to use MG
Bailly is going for 2m, not 20.
In the pantheon of permacrocks, Martial is right up there with Jones. But at least when he laced his boots, Jones gave us the effort the shirt deserved.
If he goes we’ll probably sign Ramsus and then push for one of our 30+ year old specials. Taremi is the hottest linked so far
Can you imagine a Saudi club paying anything for him? What a dream it would be! I’m sitting here thinking about a juicy £20m offer and quite frankly it’s giving me a boner
Bailly is not going for 20M, he is getting contract worth 20 million.
Blind naivety, I'd call it idiocy, same as with Fred and McT, you still have people who believe they have something to offer. When they've proved time and time again they can be relied on.
If anyone offers anything above 10m for Martial, I'd snap their hand of off and have him carefully delivered in bubble wrap.
Be lucky if they find a pulse.
More money than sense.
Except he doesn’t seem to like being back up and tends to sulk. And he seems to need a run of games to play himself in. He’s a terrible backup striker. Anybody not called Wout Weghorst would be an improvement.
Is that Al-Exclusive
Oh please let the Saudi trash can of overpaid Prem nobodies swallow him up.
This would be outstanding if true. He's useless. Bad reliability and bad performance. Saudi football would suit his intensity in truth.
Obviously it leaves us extremely short for central strikers but I don't think it's such a problem when Martial was so unreliable. It just means we might have to think about somebody really cheap to play a supporting role.
Obviously it leaves us extremely short for central strikers but I don't think it's such a problem when Martial was so unreliable. It just means we might have to think about somebody really cheap to play a supporting role.
Any crooked doctors please volunteer.
Sell asap! I don't have the nerves to watch him anymore (barely watching, he's always off injured).
@Lee565 the debate wouldn’t last long, he’s shit.
Not a chance anyone would come close to that I'm afraid.
It's such a shame he was such a talented youngster, but a combination of terrible management and injuries have ruined him, he really could have been brilliant. I'd be surprised if anyone paid above 10 million for him now.
Plan is obviously to play Sancho as a false 9 - that’s where ETH used him 3 times in a row this pre-season already. He will apparently share minutes with a bee striker (Hojlund or otherwise)
Just hope he can agree terms with another club and make a speedy exit.
Not sure the blame can be placed at the managers door over the years. He's had plenty of opportunity. It's not really for managers to convince him that he should be in shape, running, engaged in the game. At this level it should be an intrinsic part of the makeup.
Other players have come through the periods under other managers intact.
I thought Mourinho treated Martial and Shaw attrociously.
Sort of a ridiculous post when he's playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world.
The Saudi operation is all about propaganda of taking players from footballing giants.
I mean do you think anyone is excited at a 33 year old Hendo?