There are several players at Manchester United who have not gotten the playing time that they must have been looking for this season. That is not a huge surprise though considering the amount of depth that the Red Devils have in their squad. What is also not a surprise though is the fact that multiple players are being linked with an exit in the upcoming January transfer window.
One such player is Anthony Martial. Once one of the most important players at Manchester United, things have not gone his way in recent years.
This season, he has barely played first-team football. According to stats from Transfermarkt, he has made 10 appearances, featured for 359 minutes in total and scored just once.
And as reported by the Daily Mail, Martial held talks with interim manager Ralf Rangnick on Wednesday as he tries to secure a move away next month.
Martial held talks with Rangnick over his Manchester United future
When Martial was signed from AS Monaco in 2015, he was considered as arguably the most exciting young talent in world football. The transfer fee that Manchester United shelled out for him was the highest for a teenager at that point.
Now, he has had good seasons at Manchester United. For example, he was brilliant in the 2019/20 campaign and finished as the club’s top scorer that season. But what he has struggled with is finding consistency.
Since that season, Martial has not been able to find his form and struggled in front of goal. And with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Edinson Cavani, Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood ahead of him in the pecking order, future prospects of getting first-team minutes do not look bright for the Frenchman.
He has been heavily linked with Barcelona and Juventus. But recent rumours have suggested that Martial prefers a move to Sevilla.