Martial is our 1st choice forward and he's 3rd from bottom. 
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Love all these posters pretending they would give up a multi million pound contract out of pride to be injured at some shit club lower down the leagues.
"he should have asked to leave". Nah, club were idiots to give him a contract, he's honouring the agreement that was made.
"he should have asked to leave". Nah, club were idiots to give him a contract, he's honouring the agreement that was made.
His normal day involves him laughing all the way to the bank. Still, who can blame him? It was obvious at the time to anyone with any understanding of football that he should never been offered a new contract.
Who in their right mind is going to refuse 15m quid? Are you honestly telling me that you would?
He should have been let go, full stop.
He must be in the Guinness book of records by now surely?
4-5 years on job training, probably make him an expert on rehab. Might as well get a diploma and a full time job (somewhere else pls)
Dude is a legend. Get the bag!
I keep seeing this thread bumped and wonder if there is some positive news for Jones.. I dont expect him to have any future here.. but if he gets fit and gets playing again somewhere, it would be nice.
Casemiro: Ant, who is the guy that's always hanging around the training ground?
Ant: Dunno. Seen him around the gym quite a bit.
Ant: Bruv, who is that guy in the gym making funny faces every time he benches 60lbs?
Bruno: I am still not sure. I think he's someone's son. Fergie's lovechild?
Bruno: Marcus, he's the guy who's always lurking around the training grounds, gym etc?
Marcus: That Mister Bruno, he's a lover, not a fighter; has more organs to offer than most donors have to give; and he's also knowns as the luckiest man in the world. That's Philip Anthony Jones.
Ant: Dunno. Seen him around the gym quite a bit.
Ant: Bruv, who is that guy in the gym making funny faces every time he benches 60lbs?
Bruno: I am still not sure. I think he's someone's son. Fergie's lovechild?
Bruno: Marcus, he's the guy who's always lurking around the training grounds, gym etc?
Marcus: That Mister Bruno, he's a lover, not a fighter; has more organs to offer than most donors have to give; and he's also knowns as the luckiest man in the world. That's Philip Anthony Jones.
Luckiest fecker ever. Earning more than 100k p/w for so many years doing basically nothing.
For the average Joe 100k maybe their 2-3 years salary.
For the average Joe 100k maybe their 2-3 years salary.
He will retire. Last few years he didn't retire only because of money.
I genuinely think the club are just doing him a solid, giving him a freebie until he can retire.
There was zero reason to give him a new contract back when we did, and I think we know he'd never pass a medical elsewhere.
Hope the lad is using his money wisely.
There were reports even he was surprised about being offered a new contract, not certain of their credibility though.
Martial is our 1st choice forward and he's 3rd from bottom.
That's who stood out for me as well. The rest towards the bottom can just be shrugged off, Martial is someone we have somehow ended up relying on.
Either Ole/Woodward were THAT incompetent, or it's a favour knowing his knees were destroyed and he wouldn't get another job elsewhere.
I do think he's probably been struggling a lot mentally as well as physically. The poor guy was always injury prone but gave his all whenever he played.
I don't know why it's ended up going so badly for him, but clearly he's not even fit enough to train anymore so... I doubt we will see him again.
He could play through injuries somewhere in lower leagues if the nature of them allow him. Of course the contract was stupid from our side but the lad is as unfortunate as it gets, can't blame him.
Just don't understand this stupid kind of jealousy or having a grudge against injury-prone athletes. It's not like they are faking it hoped for their career go this way..
I think he's essentially had the two of the worst knee injuries you can suffer. There was a pretty interesting video somewhere on it a while back.
Got himself a promo card on FIFA 23 yesterday with Smalling. Probably has a cracked PR team.
I heard his cartilidge was basically gone, so his bones are rubbing together and constantly imflammed. Sounds awful.
I bet he just desperately wants to play again but what can you do? hopefully he's doing his coaching badges.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/willian-arsenal-chelsea-transfer-contract-26135024
Has anyone compared him with Willian? Man tore up his £20M contract with Arsenal because he was unhappy. Obviously Phil's happiness is picking up £100K/w doing feck all. He's well within his right to do so but the criticisms from some sections of United supporters are valid. We are, after-all, supporting the club.
I hear that they are taking the extra year option to make sure he's comfortable and doesn't feel ill treated or unwanted.
I would love to see one of those a day in the life tik tok videos of him.
He needs to stop holding the 4 shirt hostage, if he had a modicum of self respect he would have jogged on to MLS last summer
Every time someone uses the word modicum you can bet your ass they’re saying something outlandish.
The fairly obvious difference being that Willian is still starting for a Premier League club. Jones doesn’t have that luxury.
Club has enough authority to rid him of a number without even asking
Knowing how our club is run, it is very likely the club never offered to buy him out his contract.
Why would he tear up his contract and leave when he can't earn even 20% anywhere else?
Why would he tear up his contract and leave when he can't earn even 20% anywhere else?
It's just so unfortunate the pain the guy must have been through knowing he should have been more in football. Decent fellow, deserves better. Not his fault at all, with all the injuries and stuff. He has always been a committed footballer.
Exactly. I’m glad he got his contract.
I think there's a modicum of truth to that.
Nothing outlandish mate. It was fairly widely reported he wouldn’t give Varane the 4 shirt when he signed.
WHAT?!Phil Jones will outlast the Qataris
I totally disagree. He clearly hasn't taken good enough care of himself, and never really cared that much to be a total professional with 100% commitment, otherwise he would have pushed to leave the moment he was free of injury. But he never, then got injured again and again.
I can't believe people are defending this guy, he's been stealing a living from the club for years now.
The man has made millions doing feck all for years. He certainly doesn't need the sympathy of strangers on the internet. There's plenty of people in the world more deserving of it
Exactly, plus those remarks he made about his critics sitting in their mum’s basement or whatever he said wasn’t exactly classy.
Very unlucky, don't blame him for staying, just strikingly obvious bad business at the time.
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It's not his to give, the club can just take it off him. Which they would have, if Varane really cared about it. And that's assuming the reports were true, which they likely weren't.
I had some sympathy / respect for Jones up to a certain point but when he turned down that 6 month loan move to Bordeaux that all went away. Just pathetic really.
Fair play to him, people judging the guy for raking in the money are deluded. You don't need to have sympathy, but the guy has had horrific injuries, put his body on the line when needed (probably did him more harm to be fair) and I don't think there is a single person here who would have turned down 5 to 10m a year. He probably thought he could turn it around given his age. It's not my money, I'm glad he stole off teh glazers, it's not like it would have been reinvested.
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