My intent is that this is my last message in the Martial Thread. I've come in here and complained enough...
So will say my bit and leave it at that. Every minute Martial is on the field is taking away from another player that could be developing. We've given him more than enough opportunity to develop to a world class player and he's certainly not that. He was brought into a side as a teenager that was considerably weaker than this current team and had ample chance to improve, develop and mature. We have reasonably higher ambitions now with a more talented squad than when he arrived. IMO Anthony doesn't display the movement, ability to hold up the ball and connect passes, or even just be a part of movement and a flow in the team that has quick/fast, decently skilled players around him. He has a hard time with vision and seems to do only one or 2 things above average. He dribbles well in traffic (when he finally gets into this situation which isn't easy to achieve with his lack of movement and understanding of spacial relativity) and he is decent at putting the ball in the net in front of goal. For those reasons he should be able to play at a far less ambitious but still top league type team and have a nice career.
I tend to allow my opinion to become so negative because I get frustrated with his lack of movement, inability to hold up the ball when we are playing counter attack football and he's isolated up top. I get so disillusioned that I admittedly forget some of the really nice goals that he's scored for us over the last few years.
His inclusion in the team now angers me and is becoming a problem in this team IMO as we can't play a fluid attacking style if we are down an attacker (feels like we're down a man when he's in). I truly hope he's sold outright in January. Let's tie a pretty bow on this failed project and shift his minutes to Cavani, Sancho, Rashford, Jessie or a younger player.