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#3 For the sake of his international future
Anthony Martial missed out on France's World Cup
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It is no longer news that France are world champions, owing to their impressive display in Russia, but the 22-year-old Martial was not a part of the victory parade, having been dropped by French coach Didier Deschamps, due to his lethargic performances at United.
Martial made his international debut in 2015, after his spectacular performance for Monaco in Ligue 1, and since then, he has gone on to make 18 appearances for Les Bleus, scoring a solitary goal.
However, of those 18 caps, only 3 have come since 2017, as Martial's progress with his national team has been remarkably stalled since Mourinho's arrival at Old Trafford. He made six appearances for France in 2015, following that up with an impressive 9 in 2016, making the 23-man squad for EURO 2016 on home soil. He however made just 2 and 1 appearances in 2017 and 2018 respectively, only making it to the standby list of Deschamp's World Cup winning squad.
Martial was earmarked as one of the young players to usher France into its next era of dominance, but he has faltered massively in that role, watching as Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele, Benjamin Pavard and Corentin Tolisso overtook him in the hierarchy of the French national team.
To put it in perspective, Martial had won 16 caps by the time Mbappe made his international debut in March 2017, since then, the 19-year-old PSG forward has gone on to make 22 appearances for France, and was one of the standout performers in their World Cup triumph, while Martial has won just two caps in the same timeframe.
Representing your nation is one of the special moments in a player's career, and winning the World Cup in your national colors is the highest achievement, but Martial is falling out of relevance to the French national team, and moving away from Manchester United could be the only way to halt his international downward spiral.
