I will somehow be disappointed if he doesnt score 20 goals minimum now.
Unbelievable I know.
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I will somehow be disappointed if he doesnt score 20 goals minimum now.
Unbelievable I know.
There was a good one outside the stadium after the Liverpool game. "Ooh, ah, Mar-she-al, I said oh ah Martial!"
It is very unlikely, but not impossible. Kane did that last season.
However, I think that it is safe to beat that he'll break Welbeck's record for his best season (12 goals) during this season. And he'll score on this and the next seaosn more than Welbeck did here on three full seasons (and 25 mathches from other seasons).
I like to remind myself of this every time he scores:
Got his first of many in-forms in FIFA 16 
With every game, it looks like Monaco got a really crap deal!
As bad as RVP was, he scored 2.5 times as many goals as Welbeck did in the league last season. Even Falcao who was shit scored as many as Welbeck
Which tells all you need to know about how great Welbeck was last season.
Woudn't be funny if Martial (19 years old, different league, no-preseason) scores this seasons as many goals as Welbeck did in his entire career here?
Van Persie was really shit for us last season even though he scored some goals, and Falcao was even worse. Welbeck was definitely better player for Arsenal last year than those two were for us. Sure if you are looking just through goals you can think otherwise, but neither of those two were great goalscorers last season either.
But without discussing whether selling Welbeck was good or bad idea in general, it was definitely better idea to keep him over both of those considering they were actually ruining our play, and were on massive wages which meant we simply had to get rid of them for any price this season. Again, I am not saying it because I like Welbeck, I am saying it because loaning Falcao was obviously one of the worst decisions in our recent years, same as on insisting on playing van Persie who was obviously past it and couldn't give a feck in last two seasons for us.
Why?
Oh, Anthony Martial!
I expected Rooney to be the one who scored 4 in first 4 since, if I am not mistaken, he scored hattrick on his debut.
He looks more like the Brazilian Ronaldo to me in style of play and build. Same height, demeanor, style of dribbling and running.
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Louis van Gaal wanted a striker that could score goals..We can both agree that Danny really doesnt..Falcao was poor, but if being better than Falcao is the standard, then that is a very low one. Thats why we got rid of all three, RVP, Falcao and Welbeck. None are good enough for what we want in a striker, especially goals.
The goals came from elsewhere last season, with Fellani and Smalling both matching Danny's goal tally, and someone like Herrera chipping in too.
He makes finishing look easy with those low balls in the far corner.
he's everything I wanted Welbeck to be (so far).
Not been to a game this year, have we got a song for this lad yet. Can never make out new chants listening to the tele.
Basically same type of finish for all 4 goals so far.
It wasn't a better idea to keep Welbeck over both RvP and Falcao until it became apparent that both would have dismal seasons. Go back to transfer deadline day 2014 and only the smallest of minorities would take Welbeck over Falcao. We were replacing a hit and miss striker with one of the game's best strikers.
And then some.
His latest one is probably the most similar to his debut goal vs Liverpool.
Crowd have been singing the same one as RvP. Oh Anthony Martial...
Keepers will have noticed that. Am looking forward to him shaping to do the same finish, then taking it round the keeper instead.
He should be our penalty taker. He's the coolest man in football at the minute.
Although only a cameo appearance against Ipswich, once again Martial definitely impressed. He has so many great attributes at such a young age. There will be rough patches ahead, I'm sure, but he clearly has all the tools to be a top player. You can certainly see why United agreed to pay such a fee for him. If his development is handled properly, and the player himself remains fully committed to his career, then I'm confident that he'll prove to be an astute buy. One of the best things about his goal yesterday (in addition to the composed finish, of course) is that he didn't simply defer to Memphis. After Memphis chested the ball down, I think he could have latched onto it himself. Martial, though, saw the opportunity and swooped it. It wasn't a selfish play, it was a confident and aggressive one. That's a true striker's mentality. He doesn't seem intimidated at all by the size of the club or the players around him. That bodes well for United!
Exactly, defenders will study him and teams will plan for him, and then we will see a dropoff. But the good news is that if defenders are concentrating on Martial, then that should help open things up for Rooney, Mata and Memphis.
Do not want, sell him.
His link up play is terrible.
And he has a fat arse.
Boring barnet too.
Sell Martial buy Hery:
Sell Martial buy Hery:
Wow.. give the kid some credit. For the guy at his age with the price tag he's got over his head, i thought the pressure would get to him but he has been calm, collective and has been putting it back in the net. Yes, defenders will probably look into him more but you cant deny he's got talent, with hard work in training, no distraction and a manager pushing him to be better and will be putting them defenders back to school to keep studying on him. So write him off too soon
Saint Martial has touched more people at the club.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...on-Old-Trafford-ahead-CSKA-Moscow-outing.html
We've become so generous during his presence.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...on-Old-Trafford-ahead-CSKA-Moscow-outing.html
We've become so generous during his presence.
Anthony Martial score goals but more importantly he give the club and us supporters optimism about the future.
The prospect of an injuried Rooney doesn't scare us any longer. What a turnaround. I get vibes from when a young Ronaldo came to us, you just know we had something special in front of us.
There will be a rollercoaster of emotions and results but wow this is what life is about. My optimism is back.
The prospect of an injuried Rooney doesn't scare us any longer. What a turnaround. I get vibes from when a young Ronaldo came to us, you just know we had something special in front of us.
There will be a rollercoaster of emotions and results but wow this is what life is about. My optimism is back.
Was coming here to write something similar.
The most depressing thread is the predicted top 4 thread and most having us 3rd or 4th.
Martial gives us that optimism now. We have no clue how he will do this season. He could win us the title. We just don't know. But what we have seen is similar to the class RVP brought us in his first season. It's so exciting.
Martial can be anything really. The signing has given us a chance this season, because we'd score one every two games or so without him.
One thing is clear so far though, his arrival has highlighted how inadequate our attack was. What has has been doing, is what we, and what any other top club, needs from their centre forward. Just from the last few games, we've seen something I don't think Rooney could have given us this year, and if we'd bet the entire house on his 20 goal promise, I'd fear for our chances of making the top 4.
From the brief snapshot, Martial also appears to allow our other forward players to play better, as the whole attack is more dynamic.
Long may it continue.
I really like him as a player, but I'm finding it difficult to warm to him as an individual. All the stuff about him being 'cold' and 'unemotional' is well and good, but it's making it difficult for me to connect to him the way I have done with our other new signings.
He still doesn't feel like a player playing for the club I love.
He still doesn't feel like a player playing for the club I love.
I am giving him credit. I'm saying that teams are going to have to plan how to deal with him.
Young players have to develop themselves as defenders start to prepare better for what they do.
Cristiano had to do it, Martial will have growing pains as well.
Spot on. However if it's Bale who stole Ronaldo's ball in similar fashion he won't be able to get away with that, even if he scored
Can't find the post now, but a Monaco fan had written a detailed post on him.
He didn't call him cold and unemotional, he called him a "shy and reserved, a really good kid and a family man".
Henry seemed arrogant and a massive twat when he was really cool in real life. There is always going to be a difference between how a player appears on screen and how he really is.
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