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'About time you occupied the no.9 shirt': Ashley Young shares sweet exchange with Martial after pre-season friendly

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After the game, the two shared a nice exchange on Instagram. Young made a post which captioned: “End of the tour. Thanks Australia we’ve enjoyed nearly every minute. Nice to lead this team again.”

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Martial noticed this and replied: “My bro,” and even got a reply back from the ex-United captain.

Young replied to him: “(It) Was good to see you my bro and thanks for your shirt, good luck for the season bro and it’s about time you occupied that No.9 shirt.”

Martial and Young were United teammates for six years before the latter left the club and joined 

. The Englishman returned to his country and has been playing with Villa for the last year or so.

The French forward had a pretty solid pre-season tour of Asia, scoring 3 goals in 4 appearances and looking really sharp in 

Man United 'make decision' on Anthony Martial's future (reliability: 4 stars)

 this summer following his rejuvenated displays in pre-season, reports Samuel Luckhurst of the MEN - a tier-two source. 

United were considering offloading the Frenchman after a failed loan spell at 

However, Martial has shown the desire to succeed under 

, scoring thrice in as many pre-season games so far. 

In fact, Luckhurst understands Ten Hag intends to start Martial regularly for the beginning of the Premier League season. That's mainly down to 

The 37-year-old is yet to train with his teammates under the new boss whereas Martial has not only done that but also excelled. 

Anthony Martial and Raphael Varane take part in staring contest — the outcome is hilarious

Staring contests are fun but it's hard to keep a straight face and not blink when all you can do is laugh. 

 account on Twitter, fans can see the duo trying hard to keep themselves from blinking. 

During the first attempt, they both give up and start laughing. They try to do it another time. 

However, Varane begins to smile easily and then bursts out laughing. Of course, once that happens, Martial too ends up with a smile on his face. Take a look - 

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For me only if Ronaldo leave. Martial is a fine back up competition for CR7 already

Prince Affiong

Alhaji A kanneh(STOIC KAY)

Alvaro Manchester ❤️⚽❤️⚽

we still need a tactical striker as our no.9 
Schick or Agustin Alvarez

i think this false 9 setup suits martial in the sense that he used to play a number 10 role at monaco dropping deep n dribbling his way through...so playing false 9 is familiar to him,its due to the quality players we had wen he came in that forced him to play left wings
but we definitely still need a striker regardless is Ronaldo stays or goes
a proper target man

UpperMoon_45

Yes, you're right but he was a lazy player, maybe he will adjust now and put more energy in.

O'Strong Rash

100% agree with you about him been lazy, that's why i don't like him..This is his last chance.

Yoandri Reyes

I'm not Martial's biggest fan but we have to admit that this club and some managers played him dirty with the number 9...he was the number 9...and then Zlatan and Lukaku happened, until Ole came. That was just disrespectful.

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'About time you occupied the no.9 shirt': Ashley Young shares sweet exchange with Martial after pre-season friendly

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