Graeme Souness picks out Man Utd star who sums up ‘decade of poor decisions’

Liverpool icon Graeme Souness has claimed that the signing of Anthony Martial sums up a "decade of poor decisions" at Manchester United.

Martial arrived at Old Trafford from Monaco in 2015. He cost the Red Devils £36million as a 19-year-old, making him the most expensive teenager in the world at the time.

The Frenchman has failed to ever really cement his status as a key first-team player with the 13-time Premier League champions, and he now looks set to leave for free at the end of the current season. He will not be seen as a loss by Souness, who believes Martial's underachievement since joining the club provides clear evidence of United's muddled transfer policy.

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Speaking on talkSPORT last week prior to news of Martial's contract, he said: "Where Man United are… I'll try without waffling, I think you look no further than Martial for what that club is all about.

"I used to write in The Sunday Times and about four or five years ago I wrote 'This has to be Martial's last chance saloon moment.' They had given him another contract and he didn't deserve one so by mentioning his name, what I mean is they have, for a decade, made consistently poor decisions in the footballing matters.

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"The most important thing you have to get right at a football club is your recruitment and then on top of that, who you think you can afford to sell, who's no longer a Man United player, who's not fit or good enough to be a Man United player, who doesn't show the right attitude. These are things… you're playing for Man United, you're playing for that shirt, you're playing for a club that stands for all the good things about football in their past.

"You've got players who are going through the motions now, now that comes back to the manager. Martial represents, for me, a decade of poor football decisions, the fact he's still at the club.

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"And I tell you what happens with the likes of 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, and he is just one of several major football decisions they've got wrong."

Martial hasn't helped his cause this season with just two goals in 19 appearances. However, his overall record doesn't make for terrible reading. The Frenchman has registered 90 goals and provided 55 assists in 317 games for United, which works out at roughly one goal contribution just under every three matches.

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