“We have five players for two positions, so it’s very hard for an opportunity to arise”.
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“That’s not a problem for us”.
Mourinho jabbed: “I thought, when I read some quotes from people at Bayern Munich, that they would run to Manchester to bring him back, but no, that didn’t happen”.
“I’m quite surprised Karl-Heinze Rummennigge is not here to take him back”. Bastian is not speaking a lot.
Martial is a player with the talent to succeed at the club, he has shown that last season after being written off as a panic buy from day one, despite the fact the club had been monitoring him for years, with Sir Alex Ferguson watching the player himself many years ago. “He gave his last statement, which he is completely free to make, in an objective way, like he did”.
Hodgson has been replaced by Sam Allardyce and Rashford was named in Gareth Southgate’s England Under-21 squad this week. Some players react in a different way and have other kind of decisions. “I can not choose competitions, I can not say Zlatan doesn’t play one single Europa League game”. Zlatan is playing and Marcus is striker No?2 at the moment. Martial was a breath of fresh air as United were lacking attacking players after Javier Hernandez and Robin van Persie were sold and Radamel Falcao was not retained after his disastrous year-long loan spell at the club.
“I prefer he is not selected for the national team, because to be on the bench and play one minute, I would prefer for him to play for the under-21s and play 80 or 90 minutes and contribute to his development”.
Mourinho said: “I think when a team is not playing especially well and in the middle of that average level somebody comes out of that, he goes immediately to the highlight”.
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Further, and perhaps in a shot at his critics too, he insisted that he would have no issue with “accelerating” some of the youth team players through and giving them a chance if necessary.
