Martial exit?

Wednesday at Stoke said:
It’s not like he got injured on ski vacation.
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I don't care how he got injured. He's been useless for us for years and he's going to be useless till the end of the season. He might as well be useless once he's out of the club as well. We're not talking about a Roy Keane here who gave his heart and soul to the club. I don't think I've ever saw Martial sweat in a red devil's shirt. Of course if he feels that he wants to be fit for the summer then he can always hop in at the office and revise his contract terms. Till then surely we can find a doctor or two who think that this operation can be postponed to the summer. It's a groin injury (I spent months with one until I got operated) not open heart surgery.
 
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Lash said:
Not sure that would be very legal, treading a very fine line there.
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If its legal then we should have done it. I am sick to the teeth of players taking advantage of us.
 
So, we will get a striker in won't we? I would definitely try and sign Luuk de Jong on loan. Granted, he's another Dutch player and playing for PSV now. He's doing really well there, possibly winning the Dutch league. It seems impossible to lure him to United this season.

I think Koeman is right: every team needs a player like De Jong when chasing a goal and who is fantastic with headers. Much better than Weghorst and McTominay in that regard.
 
Unam333 said:
So, we will get a striker in won't we? I would definitely try and sign Luuk de Jong on loan. Granted, he's another Dutch player and playing for PSV now. He's doing really well there, possibly winning the Dutch league. It seems impossible to lure him to United this season.

I think Koeman is right: every team needs a player like De Jong when chasing a goal and who is fantastic with headers. Much better than Weghorst and McTominay in that regard.
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We're finally getting de Jong :drool:
 
So looking at mid April for Martial to be back in training then late April for him to be match fit so you can safely say he’s done at United and may get a few minutes in the last couple of games as a send off, criminally wasted talent as he looked a world beater at 19-20 years old.
 
Remember when he scored that goal on his debut against the scousers and how excited we all were about him? :(
 
davidmichael said:
So looking at mid April for Martial to be back in training then late April for him to be match fit so you can safely say he’s done at United and may get a few minutes in the last couple of games as a send off, criminally wasted talent as he looked a world beater at 19-20 years old.
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Should never play for us again, not only would I rather we give chances the likes of Kai Rooney but Id rather we play McTominay as a striker than him.
 
horsechoker said:
Should never play for us again, not only would I rather we give chances the likes of Kai Rooney but Id rather we play McTominay as a striker than him.
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I agree that fully that he shouldn’t but the likliehood is by late April we’ll have nothing at all to play for so it’s likely Martial would get a few minutes off the bench, I’d give the minutes to Hugill or McNeil if they were still at the club and I’ve got high hopes for Rooney.
 
davidmichael said:
I agree that fully that he shouldn’t but the likliehood is by late April we’ll have nothing at all to play for so it’s likely Martial would get a few minutes off the bench, I’d give the minutes to Hugill or McNeil if they were still at the club and I’ve got high hopes for Rooney.
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It would be very disappointing if he did, hopefully we won't be so injury-ridden that that becomes a possibility. I'd rather have a square peg in a round hole there.
 
Martial should be used as a case study for our new era of senior football staff to reference to say this is how you don’t do it and we’re never going down this route again.
 
If he’s out for 10 weeks then I’m fairly sure we’re not seeing him play for us again. No chance someone as risk averse as him with his fitness gambles on reinjuring himself with weeks to go on his contract.
 
led_scholes said:
Probably won't see him again playing for us.
What a sad ending for one of the best talents we had the last decade.

He should have left in 2022. I still find it ridiculous that he left for Sevilla because he didn't want to play for Rangnick and we allowed him to come back.
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Some many things wrong with this post I don’t know where to start
 
Red00012 said:
Some many things wrong with this post I don’t know where to start
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So I guess you don't consider him one of the best talents we had the last ten years (curious to learn how many players were more talented) and you are OK with a player giving an interview saying that he decided that didn't want to work with the manager before even meeting him.
 
I’ve always had the feeling that Martial is a professional footballer who doesn’t actually enjoy playing football. A bit similar to Tevez except the latter is way more talented and hardworking.
 
DRJosh said:
I’ve always had the feeling that Martial is a professional footballer who doesn’t actually enjoy playing football. A bit similar to Tevez except the latter is way more talented and hardworking.
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I never got the feeling Tevez didn't like playing football, I got the feeling he had zero loyalty and didn't care about upsetting anyone.

Martial on the other hand clearly doesn't care about football, he just loves the life it's given him.
 


I'd almost forgotten he plays for us. I guess he won't make the threshold for a testimonial.
 
It's so nice heading into the Summer knowing we are finally off loading Martial. No chance of an extension or him staying to run down a ridiculous overpriced contract.
Good riddance.
I'd be surprised a half decent European team take him on.
 
Martial isn't injured, leaked his contract wasn't being renewed and the following week had a mystery illness.

Then he was injured for the remainder of the season.
 
Devil81 said:
Martial isn't injured, leaked his contract wasn't being renewed and the following week had a mystery illness.

Then he was injured for the remainder of the season.
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Proper dedication to faking injury when you have surgery as well.
 
Good riddance you lazy fecker!

We all thought we had signed a future world class striker back in 2015.
Turns out we signed one of the laziest and moodiest players this club has ever seen.
A true brat in every sense.
 
A shame how it’s ending. Possibly the most talented player we’ve had since Fergie’s time. He was so ridiculously good at 19, I’ve never been more convinced that one of our young players would become a world-beater. Hope he gets a final match. He’s not blameless at all but he’s also been managed horribly by several managers, overplaying him through injury or replacing him with inferior players when he was in red-hot form.
 
Prime example of how talent doesn't get you to the top without work effort and resilience.

I was just about to say we gave him far too many chances, but then again we gave him his latest contract just before he actually had a very good season for us. At least we're not triggering his one-year extension. Not sure we could have gotten rid much earlier than now, unless we just straight up paid out his contract.
 
Jev said:
A shame how it’s ending. Possibly the most talented player we’ve had since Fergie’s time. He was so ridiculously good at 19, I’ve never been more convinced that one of our young players would become a world-beater. Hope he gets a final match. He’s not blameless at all but he’s also been managed horribly by several managers, overplaying him through injury or replacing him with inferior players when he was in red-hot form.
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I sincerely hope he doesn’t!
 
That new contract has to go down as one of the worst decisions in the post-Ferguson era.

Not even just in hindsight, it was ridiculous at the time and simply got worse and worse.
 
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