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Premier League ain’t ready for bald Martial
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Exactly! My first thought is skinny Dave Chappelle around 2004 or so.
He does look like one. Hope he becomes one and destroy the opposition defense. He looks mean.
The thread title should he changed to bald Martial ain’t ready for the Premier League.
Because based on his first half display vs Everton he most definitely ain’t.
Because based on his first half display vs Everton he most definitely ain’t.
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Nothing has changed thenSadly the Martial zealots will take this more seriously than it should and scream ‘agenda’ in response
I swear he looks like the kid from Everybody Hates Chris
Should try afro next
Thought he was very poor but first outing like 5 months.
Gave up on the lad a long time ago.
You guys need to chill. Hasnt played in 5 months ffs. Hopefully he is more ch sharper by the time we face Leeds.
Et tu, Brute?
Player who plays his first match in over 5 months in poor performance shock
It would have been more of a shock if the performance had been any different to what we saw throughout last season tbh.
It was different though. It was so blatantly obvious that he was rusty today that it was fecking painful.
Still Backing Martial, he will come good this season.
Keep the faith.
Keep the faith.
I kept forgetting it was him, and then wondering why Ashley Young was playing out of position and refusing to run.
I agree it was painful to watch.
Shouldn’t the defenders he was up against have been similarly rusty?
He'll be our top scorer this season i reckon.
Why? He hasnt played for 4 months
He is so flat-footed. He did look like Ashley Young with the bald head.
Why? Because it’s pre-season. When professional footballers haven’t played a competitive game for a few weeks they tend to be rusty. I don’t think they get progressively more and more rusty until they forget how to kick a football.
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Accept they do. Being out for a few weeks and 4 months are totally different. Also that wasnt Evertons first game
Well I'm gonna say even though Martial isn't fit and is rusty from not playing, I don't think he's gonna have a good season,
He'll score but I expect Bruno, Sancho, Cavani, Greenwood and Rashford to all score more than him.
He'll score but I expect Bruno, Sancho, Cavani, Greenwood and Rashford to all score more than him.
Because it's his first time playing after a long term injury? Incredible question to ask really.
See above. There was a lot of rusty players on the pitch.
Anyway. We saw nothing from Martial we didn’t see dozens of times last season.
Not really if they have some pre season minutes under their belt? Weird time to have a go at someone in their first pre season game after being injured for 4 months.
In the first 20 minutes I hadn’t get used to it but I kept imagining that he is Ashley Young when I watched it on TV.
Have you ever had a long term injury?
I think you have ptsd
Yes. Twice. I scored my best ever five a side goal my first game after an ACL repair. True story.
Which has precisely nothing to do with Martial’s diabolical performances last season and again today.
Can't read much into the performance but he looked a bit heavy.
Pre-season friendly. If he's still putting performances in like that in a few weeks time, aye sharpen the knives, but bit unfair right now. And that's coming from someone who doesn't truly believe he'll ever be consistently good enough for us!
In my experience, I feel fecked after returning from a long term injury. Touch is gone, fitness is gone and I generally end up frustrated.
It has a lot to do with it (although seemingly injuries don't effect you like they do us mere mortals), which is why so many in this thread had a problem with your comment.
He’s not good enough, been obvious for a few years.
And yet he was deadly serious….
Sadly the Martial zealots will take this more seriously than it should and scream ‘agenda’ in response
I know you’ve made it one of your redcafe goals to defend Martial against any and all criticism but I mainly bumped this thread to make a silly joke about the title. And that point remains. He ain’t ready. He seems woefully undercooked for our imminent league campaign. Which isn’t ideal.
Obviously it’s impossible to know how much is down to the injury lay-off and how much is just a continuation of the frankly abysmal displays from last season. We all hope the former is the only issue here but it’s hard not to worry that this is a wildly optimistic take.
Was it obvious in 19/20 when he scored 23?
It wasn’t but he will ignore that.