Ask a weary Manchester United supporter what the best version of Anthony Martial is, they'll likely point back to when Premier League football returned to our television screens in the summer of 2020.
With Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at the wheel driving the Red Devils back towards the Champions League and two semi-finals amid the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Martial soared as United's undisputed No.9, ending the campaign with 23 goals in all competitions and finally repaying the faith that Solskjaer had shown in him since returning to Old Trafford as manager.
This was it. This was the man who Monaco were so insistent could win the Ballon d'Or that they convinced Ed Woodward to include a clause for the grand prize as part of his last-gasp £36million transfer deal in September 2015. Suffice to say, his lockdown flurry proved to be yet another false dawn in a long line of let-downs since Sir Alex Ferguson 's retirement.
