Revealed: Man Utd star's value has DROPPED €75m
Robin Bairner
- 22 Nov 2023 10:08 GMT
- 3 min read
Manchester United has become something of a graveyard for talent in recent seasons, with big-money signings failing to live up to expectations.
One Old Trafford player, though, has disappointed more than most, with his transfer value nosediving by a staggering €75 million in less than three years.
When Anthony Martial signed for Man Utd from Monaco in 2015, he looked like football’s next big thing. He was a prototype Kylian Mbappe, having excelled at Stade Louis II and was well worth the €60m that the Old Trafford side splashed out on him.
He immediately started to shine, notably scoring a brilliant goal against Liverpool shortly after arriving at the club.
His form tailed off, but in January 2021 he hit his highest expected transfer value according to FootballTransfers’ unique Player Valuation Model. Coming off a 2019/20 season in which he hit a career-high 17 Premier League goals, he was worth €90m at that point.
Martial’s decline was steep, though. He would scored only four times in 2020/21 and by the summer his valuation had dropped to €70m. It has been on the slide since then.
Now 27 years old, the France international is a peripheral player at Man Utd due to a lack of form and a lack of fitness.
His transfer valuation, meanwhile, has continued to plummet as his contract rapidly runs to its end in June 2024.
Now he is worth just €14m – fully €76m less than his peak.
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Read more here.Man Utd, meanwhile, are unlikely to see a return in terms of a transfer fee for what they paid Monaco for the budding superstar eight years ago.
Ten Hag is unlikely to sanction a January transfer for the Frenchman due to a woeful lack of alternatives in attack, and it appears that Martial is drifting towards free agency in the summer, at which point he will hope to kickstart a career that has spent the past three seasons stalled.
