Anthony martial Monaco

Originally Posted by itisme_panaflex

Reckon this one has a 80% chance of turning into a bellion rather than an henry.

Yerra, stop. Kid's record is good. Even Wenger says he's a huge talent. £#%&!ing Bellion.

Originally Posted by guerreiro

This is a 'full chips in' moment for LVG and Woodward. Will be some proper finger pointing if this doesn't work out, which on sane evidence is going to happen. If it works out though, there's going to be massive balls swinging around from both of them.

Good thing at the moment though, is that we're moving very quick and the answer won't be drawn out for too long. Going to be interesting

By the time martial develops enough to answer the question, it wont be lvg in charge.

Originally Posted by celtbion

Yerra, stop. Kid's record is good.

11goals in 52 games.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

11goals in 52 games.

So?

Originally Posted by dunk

So?

"Kids record is good"

Well this is filling me with confidence

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

"Kids record is good"

Not bad for a19 year old that has played in a few different positions

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

"Kids record is good"

Didn't he replace Berbatov up top at the end of last season and go on to get 8 in 12

Maybe the club feel he's about to explode as a talent

Seems a huge gamble to me but let's give the kid a chance

Originally Posted by dunk

Not bad for a19 year old that has played in a few different positions

In a full English season we could expect 8 goals....

Stunning.

Let's give him a chance though....he could be about to explode.

Rooney had a poor goal scoring record when he moved from Everton to Utd.

Illustrates the problem of how few top quality attacking players are out there and not already at a major club, very weak time for out and out strikers especially, perhaps the influence of players like Henry, Ronaldo. Messi and Bale, young attackers want to play that wide forward role.

They could have gone for someone like Cavani but I would rather Utd gamble on a young talent than go down that Falcao route again. The weakness of the squad is a concern, ideally you would want to bring him in slowly. The same with Depay, he looked a little jaded against Swansea, this is an attritional league.

So we already think he's shit?

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Well this is filling me with confidence

Originally Posted by believe

So we already think he's shit?

Just you and Bunks

Originally Posted by BarryX

Mr Monacov is just appeasing their fan base.

yup. and when madrid doesn't get one of our players, perez is doing the same.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

Maybe the club feel he's about to explode

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

he could be about to explode.

He'll break 100 mil when he moves to real in 3 or 4 years. He'll be magnificent with Rooney and/or Mata supplying him imo.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Well this is filling me with confidence

£58 million. £58 million!

Internet hysteria.

Originally Posted by RedMenace

Why is this fee upsetting you so much? I don't think the failure to sign anyone else is down to a lack of funds. What's the total net spend £50m or something?

Less than £50m I think.

The fee is upsetting because every single club we call from now on will have Martial and 80m euros plastered in their mind. Every chairman and president around europe will try to fleece Woodward because they know he's desperate and hapless.

The player is of decent potential but we've overpaid by £30m at least.

One way to solve this future problem is to sack Woodward.

Originally Posted by believe

So we already think he's shit?

I don't see how anyone here can say he is shit or amazing unless they can claim to have watched him every week at Monaco in the last two years.

If you've seen him 3 or 4 times in the champions league it is quite clear the lad has bags of potential. Certainly insulting to compare him to the likes of Obertan and Bellion who were £3m punts.

But we've paid the fee of a superstar for a french teenager who hasn't done much in the game. The fear is the impact it will have on him fulfilling his obvious potential and the impact it will have on our clubs future transfer dealings.

That's a good idea. Let's sack him before we see how any of the players he's signed actually do, and after he negotiated the biggest sponsorship deal in the history of football. After all, the interweb said he's rubbish and the interweb is never wrong.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

11goals in 52 games.

And shearer and Henry's record at the same age was what? Records mean £#%&! all at that age. It's about spotting the talent.

No idea if he has that talent, but van gaal must think so if it's true he's scouted him for a year. Obviously quite a way down the list of targets and was one for the future, but rather this than a sponsor appeasing panic signing of someone like falcao. Seems to have the raw ingredients for van gaal to work with.