{"id":139152,"date":"2025-09-13T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139152\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:30:07","slug":"ex-man-united-forward-anthony-martial-joins-liga-mxs-monterrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139152\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Man United forward Anthony Martial joins Liga MX&#8217;s Monterrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/181140\/anthony-martial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Martial<\/a> has joined <a data-league-guid=\"4ddd2419-cd7e-3a4f-b50f-807484906a41\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/MEX.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liga MX<\/a> giants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team\/_\/id\/220\/monterrey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monterrey<\/a> in a transfer from AEK Athens, the Mexican club confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Martial, 29, has signed a contract through 2027, with an option for an additional year, and becomes the first French player in Monterrey&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>A former <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"81be996c-0f98-eec4-6284-c6be0d186360\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=478\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> international, Martial spent nine seasons at Man United after joining from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8e37a6b1-d9b7-251c-9920-88d467d9c871\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=174\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AS Monaco<\/a> in 2015 in an initial \u00a336 million ($48.8m) deal &#8212; the most expensive fee ever for a teenager at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Anthony Martial has left AEK Athens after a single season to join Monterrey.\u00a0Stefanos Kyriazis\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Despite making an instant impression with a goal on his debut against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> and winning the Golden Boy prize in 2015 as Europe&#8217;s best young player, he struggled to maintain that early promise.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 90 goals in 317 games for United amid frequent injuries and a loan move to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9db0d7f2-b091-5122-f29b-397ec1349254\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sevilla<\/a> in 2022. Martial left Old Trafford in a permanent move to AEK Athens last summer and scored nine goals in 24 appearances for the Greek club.<\/p>\n<p>He now joins a Monterrey side that sit top of the Liga MX Apertura standings with 18 points from seven games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United forward Anthony Martial has joined Liga MX giants Monterrey in a transfer from AEK Athens,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-139152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}