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Anthony Martial is being focused my Mexican facet Pumas UNAM however the former Manchester United star “gigantic wage” is holding up a deal, in keeping with a report.
AEK Athens open to an exit
Martial, 29, left Previous Trafford on the finish of the 2023/24 season after his contract expired with INEOS displaying no intent to resume.
Throughout eights seasons the French ahead performed 317 instances in a pink shirt, scoring 90 objectives and offering 54 assists.
Regardless of arriving as one in all Europe’s hottest prospects from Monaco in 2015, accidents and a scarcity of consistency plagued Martial’s time in Manchester.
And these points haven’t improved since he swapped England for Greece to hitch AEK Athens on a free switch, signing the “greatest contract within the membership’s historical past when he put pen to paper final yr”, the Day by day Mail experiences.
Martial made 23 appearances for the Greek facet final season, returning 9 objectives and two assists, as AEK certified for the Europa Convention League after ending fourth within the Tremendous League Greece.
The Yellow Blacks would seemingly have been anticipating extra from a participant as soon as predicted as a Ballon d’Or contender, however Martial is a great distance from the participant who took English soccer by storm in his first season with United.
This marketing campaign has proved precisely that time, with AEK supervisor Marko Nikolic dropping the Frenchman from his matchday squad for the final six video games.
The membership are open to Martial’s exit with the Greek switch window set to close tomorrow. However the ahead’s wage in Athens is stopping a deal as he doesn’t want to give it up, regardless of curiosity from overseas.
Wage calls for holding up a deal
Pumas – presently tenth in Liga MX – are concentrating on Martial, in keeping with Mexican reporter Cesar Luis Merlo.
“AEK is keen to mortgage him to Pumas freed from cost (they need to solely pay his wage), however Martial earns a huge wage, gigantic,” Merlo states on his YouTube channel (as relayed by the Day by day Mail).
“They’ve been speaking to him for 3 or 4 days, however the participant nonetheless hasn’t given in to his calls for. I’m not ruling him out 100%, but when he hasn’t budged in 4 days, I don’t see it being straightforward for him to maneuver at this time.
“The fact is that Pumas is attempting to get Martial, however the participant doesn’t need to budge even a euro. For now, neither Martial nor his agent have budged.
“In the event that they do, there could also be an opportunity, however we’ll have to attend and see,” Merlo concludes.
There’s a lengthy line of gamers who’ve come by way of the door at Previous Trafford lately whose sole concern was cashing their cheque with the membership, fairly than acting on the pitch. INEOS will merely be relieved they confirmed one instance of this the exit final yr.
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