Get the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Ronaldo spectre looms over forwards Whether or not Anthony Martial deserved his start for Manchester United against Southampton last week was something of a moot point.
Partially due to injury, yes, but Martial had hardly warranted his place in the line-up with a clutch of hitherto impressive performances.
It wasn't a major surprise to see him struggle on the south coast and get hooked, to be replaced by Jadon Sancho, before the hour mark.
Yet neither Martial nor Sancho — nor any of the United forwards, for that matter — would have factored in the possibility of the world's greatest striker arriving at Old Trafford
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