Anthony Martial wants to leave according to his agent but Man United manager Jose Mourinho has had his say on the transfer saga in the transfer window. Jose Mourinho has warned Anthony Martial there is no guarantee he will leave Manchester United this summer. Martial’s agent Philippe Lamboley said last month the Frenchman wants out of Old Trafford after a frustrating second season and the MEN revealed United rebuffed an enquiry from Tottenham. Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford’s absences due to their World Cup involvement has left Martial as the only available senior striker on United’s pre-season tour. Martial played the full 90 minutes in United’s drab draw with San Jose Earthquakes in Santa Clara on Sunday, having started the pre-season opener against Club America on Thursday.
“I don’t know what his agent told,” Mourinho said, before he was informed of what Lamboley said last month. “I would like to be in Los Angeles now and I am in San Jose,” Mourinho added. “You cannot do whatever you want in life, I would love to arrive in Los Angeles, to train in Los Angeles and play all my five matches in Los Angeles, and then don’t travel, don’t change hotel and then go back to Manchester. “I would like to play against Leicester on Sunday but I have to play on Friday, so you don’t get always in life what you want.” Mourinho also dwelt on how strange United’s pre-season is as they continue preparations without the majority of their World Cup players.
“For me is a very strange pre-season,” Mourinho added. “Pre-season, you try to be motivated and motivate the people around you but is not easy. I did some pre-season with some players but to have ten players away is very strange. “So the motivation is to try to train the best we can, to give the players minutes, to give young players an opportunity to develop and that’s it.” United are prepared to trigger the one-year extension in Martial’s contract to tie him to the club until 2020.
