Manchester United forward Anthony Martial left the club’s summer preseason tour of the USA in order to be with his girlfriend for the birth of their son.
United manager Jose Mourinho was initially supportive of Martial’s returning to France, but it wasn’t long until Mourinho threw Martial under the bus, saying the Frenchman should have returned to the team by this past weekend. Mourinho was asked yesterday when Martial was going to return to the team, and the Portugese admitted he didn’t have the answer to the question.
Now we know, as Anthony Martial posted the following on his Twitter account:
Merci à tous pour vos messages. Mon petit Swan va bien, pour la maman ça était plus difficile mais Grâce à Dieu elle va mieux maintenant. Desolé mais ma famille passera toujours avant Tout… Retour demain à Manchester ??
— Anthony Martial (@AnthonyMartial) August 1, 2018
Translated from French to English it reads:
Thank you all for your posts. My little Swan is fine, for the mom it was harder but thanks to God she’s better now. Sorry but my family will always come first… Back tomorrow in Manchester ??
Right there on social media, Martial made it be known to Mourinho what his priorities are, and with that he also responded to his manager’s comments about when he believed he should have been rejoining the team this preseason. Anthony Martial and United conclude the preseason on Sunday with a trip to Bayern Munich.
Martial’s agent has made it be known that his client wants out of United this summer, but there’s only a week left in the transfer window to get a deal done.
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