More clinical than a bag of surgeons, gets the blood up just seeing him coming on. About time we had someone who could become a talisman putting games away.
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I think he's better on the ball and he's got more potential but I don't think it's cut and dry. (Although if it winds Glaston up it is.)
Strong, fast, good dribbler, ice cold in front of goal, 19 years old. How is this possible? 
I can not take this sentence seriously, it can't just be me.
Glaston is just a parody of himself nowadays in fairness.
Kane did score a lot of goals last season though, and varied goals too. including headers and free kicks. I think Martial will prove to be a much bigger talent, but it's too soon to write Kane off yet IMO.
So really we should be a little underwhelmed if he doesn't hit a hatrick on Saturday
hatrick? If he doesn't beat Lewandowski's 5 goals in 9 minutes, he should be sold.
What a weird post. What does he have to do with Welbeck?
I know it's just a dig at Welbeck, but it's really shit one.
Quite a few people who've been involved with him have mentioned that he's very mature for his age. That seems to be really translating on to the field, as he does not look anywhere near as inexperienced as he is. He's so composed it's amazing
I am getting another United shirt with that name on it..
It's only £56mil if he wins the Ballon fecking D'Or at some point plus golden ball etc.
As an accountant I am curious just how much of the extra costs the finance team think it is prudent to start accruing for!
I just cant believe it. Was his mediocre goal scoring for monaco due to shite team mates?
Hopefully it will give Rooney a kick in the ass to improve.
He spent a lot of the time playing in wide areas. Also if you look at the goalscoring stats of all the best youngsters Messi/CR7/Rooney they weren't at all prolific at a young age.
He actually had a pretty decent scoring run last season from about early March until early May where he scored 8 goals in 9 league games, which happened once he got more play time and played more as a CF.
Also got 2 goals in 3 games in the Coupe de France, was on the bench when they got knocked out by PSG though.
If Louie didn't let him go to Arsenal, Wenger would be all over him now, dumfuk.What a weird post. What does he have to do with Welbeck?
I know it's just a dig at Welbeck, but it's really shit one.
I don't think Rooney needs any kicks up his back-side. He knows what he is up against.
Last year, when he was played in midfield, he had a get-out-of-jail card and he didn't look too bad, when compared against Falcao (who was/is woeful).
This year however, he is playing as a forward and he knows that he needs to score goals.
EDIT: speaking of Falcao: he played today, Chelsea scored 4...Falcao 0.
I just hope he can keep this form up. I would not want to spend near £100 on my Martial no.9 third kit, just to regret it in the near future.
10 of his 12 goals came towards the second half of the season. Seems like we are benefiting from him continuing that trend. Just a matter of a young kid just breaking into the team and at the cusp of developing into the final product.
Some of that maybe, plus not always being played as a striker, plus despite media quoting him playing 70 games or something for Monaco I've also seen somewhere he only played 8 full games last season, i.e. he was often a bench player.
Apparently what attracted Monaco to him was that he scored 32 goals in 21 games for Lyon's U17s.
You don't score goals in Ligue 1, only good and very good players manage to score. Sometimes you have an anomaly that is brutally rectified the next season.
He has to score against Sunderland's pathetic defense, surely? I think I'll be a little disappointed every time he doesn't score in a game from now on.
I just hope he can keep this form up. I would not want to spend near £100 on my Martial no.9 third kit, just to regret it in the near future.
You're worried about £100. Ed's having heart attacks about the kid winning 4 Balon D'Ors before the end of his contract...
I never watched him but I read on here he scored nearly a goal a game in his last 10 games.
Didn't he mostly play on the wing?
It doesn't make sense, logically.
Cool as ice in front of goal, clinical finishing, pace, strength, positioning, movement, can take a man on and beat him, great technique - all at 19 years old. He's playing like he's the next big thing in football. Then how come no one knew him before he came to us? How come his stats at Monaco don't reflect what we are seeing here? How come no other club was in for him, or no coaches/managers have come out saying they knew he was world-class?
Don't kill me, but I am scared what we are seeing is a purple patch, and that he'll start loosening up. We don't know about his personality and his attitude, we don't about his training ethics or professionalism. Something has to be missing - it just doesn't add up otherwise.
Hope I'm wrong, and hope he is the next Henry, but I'll be cautious with my optimism, and enjoy the present.
Cool as ice in front of goal, clinical finishing, pace, strength, positioning, movement, can take a man on and beat him, great technique - all at 19 years old. He's playing like he's the next big thing in football. Then how come no one knew him before he came to us? How come his stats at Monaco don't reflect what we are seeing here? How come no other club was in for him, or no coaches/managers have come out saying they knew he was world-class?
Don't kill me, but I am scared what we are seeing is a purple patch, and that he'll start loosening up. We don't know about his personality and his attitude, we don't about his training ethics or professionalism. Something has to be missing - it just doesn't add up otherwise.
Hope I'm wrong, and hope he is the next Henry, but I'll be cautious with my optimism, and enjoy the present.
Plenty of people knew about him and plenty that did predicted he'd be this good for us. I wasn't one of those people, but it's silly to claim that 'nobody' knew who he was.
Also just read his first club, a 7th tier French side, was also the same club Henry & Evra started out.
very few people outside of France and certainly English football knew very little about him.
They are from the same neighborhood.
People in English football know nothing, you guys bought Obertan and Gouffran, FFS.
He was linked to many clubs this summer - Tottenham, Barca and Chelsea for example.
Well, what I meant was - why was he not hyped up like most of the young talents these days are? There are always a group of people behind every good player who believe that he's much better than he is - but when someone truly special comes along, everyone who encounters the wonderkid acknowledges it.
My doubt is - how come no one knew Martial as a 'wonderkid' before we signed him? Because he certainly is playing like one. Or is it an anomaly, his first few games? Maybe he's not a wonderkid?
I'm not sure why that's even a surprise though. You could say the same about dozens of foreign players that took the league by storm. It's just because we paid over the odds that it's being highlighted more.
As others have just said, he was a prolific goalscorer in the second half of his last season with Monaco. For them he played sporadically and often from a wide position, but he started to nail down some strong goalscoring form before his move to us. I don't think it's true that people didn't know about him really - a lot of people didn't, but a lot certainly did. Wenger just came out saying he has tracked him for years, but didn't sign him because he saw him as a winger and not a striker. He cost £36m to start with, and has Ballon d'Or clauses that could make him cost even more, so it's obvious that Monaco rated him very highly and so did we.
I'm sure we are seeing a purple patch really. He can't go on forever scoring a goal in every game, because then he'd be the best player in the world. Doesn't mean that he's not an extremely good talent.
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