French disconnection?
happiness on the pitch. In Brazil football is everything, it’s life in Brazil. Everyone plays football.
“I love to see him on the pitch playing, with his technique and his ability. It’s a different style.
“When you say the word Neymar around the world, everyone knows who he is and what he does. Therefore if I could play with him one day it would be a pleasure.”
Meanwhile, Anthony Martial’s agent Philippe Lamboley has fuelled exit rumours by refusing to commit his future to the club. Martial’s failure to secure a permanent position in Mourinho’s side could result in him looking for a move in the summer as Lamboley stays hush on his future plans.
Lamboley has offered no assurances that the forward will remain at Manchester United beyond the end of the season, with his place in Jose Mourinho’s squad still under a cloud of doubt.
The 22-year-old is yet to tie down a regular place in the United first team as manager Mourinho chops and changes his squad on a weekly basis, with the January arrival of Alexis Sanchez further bumping the Frenchman down the pecking order and into a rotation with Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard and Juan Mata.
Martial did attract interest from Arsenal during their talks with United in January as the two clubs negotiated Sanchez’s move to Old Trafford, and while the club made it very clear that Martial was not available, his future remains up in the air.
That’s not to say that Martial has failed at United, having scored 36 goals in 131 appearances along with 27 assists, but given that he remains a player with an enormous potential to develop further there is likely to be significant interest in the former Monaco forward if it turns out that he is available in the summer.
Mourinho potentially faces a ‘use me or lose me’ scenario with Martial’s future.
“Will (Martial) stay in Manchester in the summer? At the moment, I cannot say anything else about it,” Lamboley told Il Bianconero.
“His goal is to win the FA Cup and to cement with Manchester United the second place in the Premier League.”
Mourinho is understood to be planning something of an upheaval this summer, although as The Independent reported earlier this month, Martial is not one of the players that the Portuguese is willing to let go. – The Independent