The official Martial is crap thread....

Martial is nowhere near as crap as Willian.

Willian for Arsenal is the true meaning of crap

Made this point a while back, he seems to wilt under the threat of competition in the side. Really not a good sign for a supposed top player. When he's on form he's great to watch, but just not often enough I'm afraid.

comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 8 hours, 56 minutes ago
Whatever you say about Ole you cannot argue that he hasn't given Martial more than a fair crack at the whip. Martial lucked out with Ole actually - a manager more interested in short-term success would not have let him take that number 9 position at the start of last season.

As for 'he's not coaching him properly' or whatever - it's just a tired, lazy accusation. Some of the fundamental flaws in Martial's game were actually Ole's biggest strengths - I find it hard to believe that Ole is not noticing this.

Martial has played under numerous managers for club and country and those same flaws are exposed time and time again. The player himself has to take responsibility. No one is more dissapointed than me to have to say this, because I genuinely thought we had a potential superstar on our hands after his first season, but it really is time to bite the bullet with him. Squad player or sell this summer. And something tells me he won't be much use as the former.
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Pretty fair assessment of him to be honest. Would swap him plus cash for Haaland in a heart beat. It's from his comments this weekend that United are still interested

comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 10 hours, 19 minutes ago
If I had to pin down Martial's ideal position, it would probably be the deeper lying of a CF pairing. Unfortunately for him its a position that's largely defunct but for a few clubs across Europe (Inter, Atletico off the top of my head).
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It would be the left sided forward of a three in a team that doesn’t have to unpick a ten man defence every week.

A good part of the reason why he looked much better last season is that teams were setting up differently against us and he had more space to play in.

comment by rosso - exterminate the talking heads (U17054)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by -bloodred- (U1222)
posted 10 hours, 19 minutes ago
If I had to pin down Martial's ideal position, it would probably be the deeper lying of a CF pairing. Unfortunately for him its a position that's largely defunct but for a few clubs across Europe (Inter, Atletico off the top of my head).
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It would be the left sided forward of a three in a team that doesn’t have to unpick a ten man defence every week.

A good part of the reason why he looked much better last season is that teams were setting up differently against us and he had more space to play in.
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This

France is a great country but lots of French are miserable gits. Like when I went to buy some stamps. The shopkeeper asked if I'd bought my postcards from him. I said no he said well buy your stamps somewhere else too. I always think of Martial as that kind of French.

comment by Kamikaze Blue (U7450)
posted 41 minutes ago
France is a great country but lots of French are miserable gits. Like when I went to buy some stamps. The shopkeeper asked if I'd bought my postcards from him. I said no he said well buy your stamps somewhere else too. I always think of Martial as that kind of French.
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I know a Belgian woman married to a Brit, who has lived in a nearby village for years, works in the local post office, totally integrated into village life, everyone knows her. The day after the Brexit referendum one of the villagers walked into the post office, looked her in the eye and asked, "When are you leaving the country?"

This is irrelevant to the thread, just came to mind in relation to humans being unpleasant to foreigners during potential stamp buying transactions. Around the world quite a lot of people have stories to tell of not very nice experiences with the English.

comment by Kamikaze Blue (U7450)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
France is a great country but lots of French are miserable gits. Like when I went to buy some stamps. The shopkeeper asked if I'd bought my postcards from him. I said no he said well buy your stamps somewhere else too. I always think of Martial as that kind of French.
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This explains perfectly why Martial isn't playing well at the moment.

I would drive both Martial and Trashford out of Utd

comment by Wayne and Robin aka Red Indian (U21328)
posted 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
I would drive both Martial and Trashford out of Utd
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I would very happily drive you a long, long way away from the nearest internet connection.