Sorry, wheres the joke? Zlatan is easily top 5 in the world.
he's really not "easily" top 5, just off the top of the head, messi, neymar, ronaldo, suarez, griezman. then you could start arguing bale, muller etc. ibra is still amazing though
You're right. We should bend over backwards for a 20 year old who isn't honoured to wear arguably our biggest legend's shirt number after all these years. Who needs Zlatan and all these big signings when we have the great Martial. He's 100% guaranteed to win the Ballon d'Or over Neymar, Pogba, Hazard, Bale, etc. I mean, Monaco put it in his contract, right?
dear me, if that's what you got from my post. yikes.
1. "honoured to wear our biggest legend's number", this romantic and poetic approach to football can be quite hilarious sometimes. martial is 20 year old kid from france, not a local longsight lad. maybe he grew up watching united an idolising giggs, maybe he did not, maybe he is flattered the 11 was given to him, maybe he's not. all that is besides the point the club changed his number without informing him, a change that affects his branding and potential income. a change that was allegedly very poorly handled by the club. Any decent manager will tell you that appreciation towards their workforce creates a better working environment, boosts productivity and breeds loyalty. If what has been reported truly transpired, then united is not really showing that it is appreciative of their best outfield player last year, its just simply poor by the club. I don't know how or where you got "bend over backwards" from something so simple.
2. Ibrahimovic has a great track record but he has done nothing for the club besides signing, we are yet to see what it will turn out like. Martial at least, was the bright light of yet another dreadful campaign. 3. Funny that you mention our "big money signings" and yet even after they are all done the likelihood of martial still being our best player remains high.
4. I didn't even imply at him winning the balon d'or, odd that you mention that. actually, the entire last paragraph of your post just reads like filler people add to their posts to make it look like they are making poignant arguments. I don't know how you got all that from my post.