Ian Wright has had his say on Manchester United’s new signing, Anthony Martial, and revealed that although he’s open to being wrong, he doesn’t think the striker is very impressive on paper.

Speaking recently, the former Arsenal forward admitted he didn’t believe the £36m was necessarily worth all the money.

“On paper, what he has done is not that impressive either,” said Wright. “If Martial had scored 25-30 goals I would be thinking ‘that’s only in Ligue 1′ and he has not even got close to that.

“His goalscoring record does not say to me that he is going to be the new Sergio Aguero, but I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised.”

I think the whole of the Premier League is waiting with baited breath to see how this wiz-kid performs. £36m for an 18-year-old is a huge amount of money, beyond anything Wenger would spend, despite us being linked with him.

In Martial’s time at Monaco, he managed to score 15 goals in 70 appearances, and only 12 of these came last season.

Wright has a point. If the lad was scoring over 20+ a season, maybe – and that’s a big maybe – you could make a case for the price tag considering how valuable he would be to Monaco. However, only 12 last season and two the season before that doesn’t sound great, no matter how young he is. Lucky we never bought him, eh?