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Martial was already upset he wanted out the previous summer and while he started the season well I still don't think he was happy rotating with Rashford and he just seems like the sort of lad currently who has a sulk rather than knuckle down to prove the manager wrong but sometimes that is what you get with youth.
Sanchez hasn't solved our problem but I don't think he's made it worse.
I still think questions have to be asked about the signing as Utd last season were screaming out for a right sided player we basically swapped the guy who could play that role Mkhitaryan for another guy who plays on the other side in Sanchez. Now Mkhitaryan needed to go he just didn't fit in with the style and again lets look at that signing what was the plan for him because Utd's front 3 was almost the complete opposite of what he had at Dortmund.
Sanchez currently seems to be falling into that bracket of good player but wrong club which is the problem that's dogged us for years now and there's time for that to be proven wrong but he's quickly falling into the Di Maria, Depay, Mkhitaryan, Schweinstieger category for me. It's not through lack of trying he just doesn't seem to fit the plan and you wonder if he was just signed because the club needed a big name with Zlatan out the door.
One thing that I think will help Sanchez is Luke Shaw having that overlapping full back outside helps massively if you are a wide player who wants to come inside because it forces the full back to make decisions if there's no one over lapping he knows you are coming inside. If Shaw is going down his outside then the full back can't ignore that.
Sanchez hasn't solved our problem but I don't think he's made it worse.
I still think questions have to be asked about the signing as Utd last season were screaming out for a right sided player we basically swapped the guy who could play that role Mkhitaryan for another guy who plays on the other side in Sanchez. Now Mkhitaryan needed to go he just didn't fit in with the style and again lets look at that signing what was the plan for him because Utd's front 3 was almost the complete opposite of what he had at Dortmund.
Sanchez currently seems to be falling into that bracket of good player but wrong club which is the problem that's dogged us for years now and there's time for that to be proven wrong but he's quickly falling into the Di Maria, Depay, Mkhitaryan, Schweinstieger category for me. It's not through lack of trying he just doesn't seem to fit the plan and you wonder if he was just signed because the club needed a big name with Zlatan out the door.
One thing that I think will help Sanchez is Luke Shaw having that overlapping full back outside helps massively if you are a wide player who wants to come inside because it forces the full back to make decisions if there's no one over lapping he knows you are coming inside. If Shaw is going down his outside then the full back can't ignore that.