Played even a little bit this season with Manchester United, Anthony Martial is announced possible starting this season at the Old Trafford. While the English media assures that the French striker has expressed his desires of departure to his manager Jose Mourinho.
According to the report, the 21-year-old striker denies the rumours, this situation would cause the player to want to leave the club. He has written the idea on his social media: “The rumours are false.”
The former Monaco would not have decided yet, for the moment. In case of an interesting offer, Mourinho could try to push him to leave, he who never seemed to be a big fan of the player.
Martial joined Manchester United form AS Monaco in 2015. The arrival of the Portuguese manager on the bench was not really beneficial for Martial, scored only 8 goals in 42 games in last season makes him far from the 17 goals and 45 games in 2015/16 season.
Meanwhile, Arsenal has made their plan B for Manchester United manager, a sale is synonymous with additional means to recruit. So inevitably, a departure would not be seen with an eye. Especially that the Gunners would be ready to disburse 45 million euros for Martial in case of failure on the file Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe.
Martial is also targeted by Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, La Liga club Valencia, and French Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain. However, Martial does not seem to be among the priorities of PSG, currently rather interested by Mbappe or Ousmane Dembele.
Jose Mourinho is eager on signing the likes of Real Madrid star Alvaro Morata and Milan’s Ivan Perisic this summer. However, he ensured Martial to play his preferred style this season as he said in last April.
“Do I think Anthony is a player with superb potential? Yes, I think. Do I think he can play successfully for me? Yrs, I think. But he needs to give me things that I like very much.” Mourinho said.
Arsene Wenger admitted he had admired Manchester United striker Anthony Martial. (Source:www.thetelegraph.co.uk)
“If he wants to become a very special player, and he can do that, the he has to go in a certain direction and he showed this attitude and appetite.” the former Chelsea manager added.
