Mourinho just doesn't have the knack to deal with flair players. He ends up stifling them by doing stuff that shouldn't be their responsibility. Have you noticed the amount of tracking back our wingers do? Sanchez is busy picking the ball in the center of the field instead of being on the end of passes to finish like what he did against Swansea. Similarly, Martial is NOT a tracking back sort of player. And it's not like he hasn't delivered this season. He's made instant impact coming off the bench. For those who say that he can be replaced, he's got a lot of potential. If nurtured the right way, Salah won't be the only NO. 11 banging in goals left, right and center in the PL.
The thing about Martial is that he doesn't impact much at all most of the time unless there's a brief moment which sees him getting a return. That might sound odd, but he doesn't affect enough of games and the way we play, and if he doesn't contribute with something obviously beneficial then he doesn't do much at all. Obviously it's good when he does get something but you need more to be a consistent performing side.
The guy's shirt got taken away from him without even asking him to accommodate Zlatan.
The guy works his socks off to play well on the left and he's been rivaling Rashford only to have that taken away from him to accommodate Sanchez
Sounds like this guy has been getting the shorter end of the stick.
He's a young player that should be driven beyond a shirt number.
He's doesn't do anywhere near enough to be given consistent starts which is why he doesn't get them. Jose doesn't have a vendetta against him.
And we needed to improve now. It's silly just aiming for the future constantly at the detriment of now. We brought in a player that
is better. That's almost unarguable, despite the slow start. A player that should be able to give us something good, hopefully, for a couple of years. By the looks of it it's gonna take at least a couple of years for Martial to become much of better player, because he has a shit tonne to improve. His only outstanding trait as things stand are his nimble feet. Everything else is either average or actually quite poor.
If he has an ounce of fight in him, he'll know to crack on and do better in the opportunities he gets, so that when he's (hopefully) improved in a few years it's the perfect time to swap places with Sanchez.
If he doesn't, then I'm not arsed what happens with him.