Manchester United are poised to make AS Monaco’s Anthony Martial the most expensive teenager in football history on the final day of the transfer window and former player Phil Neville thinks the young Frenchman will go on to be well worth the money.
Neville, now a coach at Valencia, saw Martial in the flesh during his side’s recent clash with the principality club in the Champions League qualifying matches. The ex-defender thinks he’ll prove to be a better investment than an experienced forward like Paris Saint-Germain’s Edinson Cavani, per Chris Wheeler of the Daily Mail:
He was unplayable at times.