Anthony Martial has struggled to make an impact at Manchester United this season (Getty)
Graeme Souness believes Anthony Martial ‘represents a decade of poor football decisions’ at Manchester United.
Martial has come under fire after a poor display in United’s 1-0 defeat to Newcastle at St James’ Park on the evening of Saturday, December 2.
The French forward has struggled to show consistency following his £36 million move from Monaco to Old Trafford in 2015, and Souness has slammed United for keeping the player at the club for so long.
‘Where Manchester United are… look no further than Martial for what that club is all about,’ Souness told talkSPORT on Monday.
‘I must be four or five years ago I wrote that this had to be Martial’s last-chance saloon. They gave him another contract and he didn’t deserve one.
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‘By mentioning his name what I mean is, they have, for a decade, made consistently poor decisions in the footballing matters.
‘The most important decisions you have to get right are your recruitment, and then on top of that who you think you can afford to sell. Who is not fit or good enough to be a Manchester United player, who doesn’t show the right attitude?
‘You’re playing for Man United, you’re playing for that shirt, that club which stands for all the good things about football in their past and you’ve got players going through the motions now.
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‘Martial represents, for me, a decade of poor football decisions in the fact he’s still at that club.
‘I tell you what happens with Martial. You watch him in training one day and go, ‘bloody hell he’s a player, there’s a real player in there’, but how many chances does he need to prove he’s a big-club player? His chance went five years ago, he shouldn’t be there.
‘He is just one of several major footballing decisions they got wrong.’
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