Anthony Martial's future at Manchester United is hanging in the balance after Jose Mourinho admitted he doesn't know if the AWOL French star will rejoin the squad.
Martial left United's tour base in LA against Mourinho's wishes last week and flew to Paris to be at the birth of his baby son with partner Melanie Da Cruz.
It stretched Martial's fractious relationship with Mourinho to breaking point, and the player made it clear to friends that he had no intention of returning to camp even though the baby was born only 24 hours later.
The United manager responded by calling for Martial to come back following United's defeat to Liverpool in Michigan on Saturday.
'He has the baby and after the baby is born – beautiful baby, full of health, thank God – he should be here and he is not here,' said Mourinho, having previously made a pointed reference to it being Martial's second child.
After United finished their US tour by beating Real Madrid in Miami without the absent Martial and prepared to fly home in the early hours of Wednesday, Mourinho was asked if the former Monaco winger would return to the group. 'I don't know,' replied Mourinho after initially ducking a question about Martial.
United were due to land in England on Wednesday morning, and Mourinho will give the plyers who went on tour Thursday off. They will re-assemble at Carrington on Friday and it remains to be seen if Martial returns to the club.
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Can’t believe Manchester United are prepared to let Anthony Martial walk out the door this summer. Yes, his attitude perhaps isn’t at the required standard, but you’ve got to look at why that is. Such a shame. Will be unbelievable wherever he goes. Full of talent.
EsuruosoHollarmelek
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it will huge loss, if we let him walk away cos he beta Dan Alexis cos aged still on his side, Alexis weakened our team since his arrival dose player's lost focused like martial, pogba, lukaku, and rashford.we need to kip him cos is d future
follower
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it depend if mourinho leaves or not, if he leaves, martial will stay, but if it the opposite martial will go and enter the list of players failing under him( mourinho) and then become a star in a new club. who is waiting for martial to leave and win champions league 🏆🏆🏆🏆🔥🔥🔥🔥