I can't even remember his last outing for us 
Anthony Martial | AEK Athens
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Mental. He'd spend more time in the treatment room than on the bench.
The fact no team has taken him on reflects on him as an individual, Rangnick was spot on about him and had the measure of his personality very early on.
I wanna say Everton away when he came on and scored about a year ago, but he's been such a low-impact player for us for so long he probably had a couple of forgettable performances after that.I can't even remember his last outing for us
Problem with guys like Martial is he should have spent his last year selling himself to a potential future club, instead he had to be subbed after 60 because he kept getting gassed.
Love the banter on here. That made me chuckle. Well played sir.
Athens bound?
Seems a very boring move. Thought he’d go to USA or something
How long until he gets injured?
Thought he'd have ended up at Chelsea tbh
We need him back.
Getting worried we are becoming somewhat competent.
The day after he signs his contract usually
Getting worried we are becoming somewhat competent.
The day after he signs his contract usually
What move? He was in talks with Flamengo, but looks like that didn't work out - apart from that there's no update. He's still a free agent.
Just wait they discover his Achilles heel
You know you're running out of options when you go to the Greek league, the Aldi Turkish league.
He is still only 28 and the Greek league is a good level for him to resurrect his career, I hope he does really wll at Athens this season and ends up one of the top scorers
It was all mental with him, wasn't it? Just couldn't be arsed playing.
I'll be amazed if he reaches double figures in appearances.
Why? He never failed to reach double figures for appearances in any of his 9 seasons with us
You feta believe he'll do well there
What a pitaful post
A combination of injuries and getting dropped for poor performances.
He's far too good to play in Greece.
On the rare occasion that he wasn't injured, his attitude stunk on the pitch.
His loan spell at Sevilla was dreadful and they couldn't wait to get rid of him.
Go big or go Homer
Not to worry. He’ll never play.
He isn't. Fans have built a lot of our players up to be superstars when they genuinely are nowhere near that level. Look at lingard for another example.
Genuinely surprised he's only 28. I thought he was much older than that for some reason.
Ridiculous, thick-headed post. Have you not watched him in the last x years?
Edit: oh it’s you, understandable.
Strongly disagree
He has no drive
yep. His get up and go has got up and gone - he hasn’t looked arsed since Covid.
I wouldn't necessarily call getting paid thousands a week to play in Athens boring.
Absolute nonsense. Martial was an elite talent, it just didn't work out like it could've due to several reasons. You do know that some players don't or can't maximize their talents and careers, but that doesn't mean they were "nowhere near that level". Especially in someone like Martial's case, you have to be blind not to see how talented he was.
Lingard was a solid PL player too, but probably didn't have the mentality at all to have a long, consistent career. IIn Martial's case, I don't think he had an awful attitude, injuries contributed too.
Serious drop in wages, I imagine. What would the top tier Greek league players be on, €30/40k a week?
Doing exactly what I said our fans do build up players to be elite when they are nowhere near that standard. At 28 years of age he is going to Greece to play football and that speaks volumes.
He'll go whereve there's money, he has 2 ex wives an a few kids to pay for? 30/40k a week should help him out there.
Maybe after LVG he still fancies some philosophy
Good for him. At times good atmosphere, out of the limelight, great city. I hope he does well.
Sorry, but it seems like it's you that cannot judge talent. Failed talent doesn't mean the talent wasn't there.
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Nah
Bang average with a terrible injury record and shit attitude
Bet he doesn’t score 10 goals this season in the Greek league
Amazed he couldn't get some sort of deal going in Saudi. He'll be on feck all in the Greek league, surely.