Such a weird player to make a massive ranting defence of.
I wouldn't say he's symbolic of what's wrong at United, but he is a nothing of a player. A game can pass where Martial plays and he won't make a single positive contribution, and it will not even be a surprise. That isn't a good thing.
It also has nothing to do with him not fitting some culturally accepted profile of player. If he sauntered about but banged 30 goals in a season he'd be quite accepted I suspect. Spending entire games half arsedly doing nothing at all is not compatible with any style of play or expectancy of a player.
He's shown he can be very good WHEN he's motivated to be. He's also shown that he is completely useless when he isn't, which happens to be most of the time. Its not like he just isn't quite as good, he will do quite literally nothing.
The reason Rashford has taken longer to get criticised (which frankly, isn't even true, he constantly gets slaughtered on here and has done for years), is because in 3 of the previous 4 seasons he has scored goals very consistently and mostly performed well, and even when not playing well has not offered nothing. Before this season he had one bad season in four to Martial’s three bad seasons in four.
I'm not sure why Rashford is relevant to Martial other than some bizarre need people have to take sides with one or the other. It makes absolutely no sense since they play in different positions and Martial’s best form has generally been when playing WITH Rashford, but in any case Rashford has also run out of leeway now and the lazy tracking back, arm waving etc. will get the response it deserves, especially given his selfishness and lack of final product in possession.
The ironic thing about trying to claim Martial gets criticised because English fans are somehow stupid and biased towards hard working players, and then complaining about Rashford for some reason, is that of the two, Rashford is the one who gets criticised for his lack of work rate, and Martial is the one with enough technical ability that he probably wouldn't get criticised for it if he actually did anything at all.