Phil Jones reveals the Man Utd player who always turned up late for training and team meetings

Former Manchester United defender Phil Jones has named which of his ex-teammates was always late to training.

After more than a decade at the club, Jones left United at the end of the 2022/23 season, deciding to retire from playing football to instead pursue a career in coaching.

Since leaving, the 32-year-old has been outspoken about his time at the Premier League side, opening up about how the changing room has adapted to the eight managers who he played under.

And now, Jones has spoken out about his former teammates, revealing the one United player who always showed up late to training and team meetings during their time at the club.

When asked which of his teammates was often late, Jones exclusively told SPORTbible: “How long we got?

“Anthony Martial, always late. Training, meetings, bus.

“I don’t think it bothered him too much though [racking up fines].

“He will be up there [as the player with the most fines].”

After nine years at United, Martial left the Premier League side at the end of the 2023/24 season after his contract was not renewed and signed a three-year deal with Greek giants AEK.

Jones played at United for the entirety of the Frenchman's time there an the pair made 68 appearances together across all competitions.

And the English defender isn't the only one to have exposed Martial's poor timekeeping while playing at United, as the striker was spotted turning up for a training session nearly four hours early last year.

Phil Jones and Anthony Martial played together for nine years at Manchester United. (Image: Getty)

A report from the Manchester Evening News states that Martial turned up at Carrington for the session at 8.56am and left four minutes later after being told the session wasn't due to take place until later in the day.

His teammates began showing up to Carrington at 11:30, with Martial himself coming back to Carrington at 12.23pm.

While speaking to SPORTbible, Jones also revealed which of his former United teammates was the loudest in the dressing room.

"I’ll go with David De Gea," said the ex-England international

“Just because he always liked to play his music, his reggaeton music and he was into heavy metal, he used to put that on in the dressing room and the lads would be like: ‘is he sure?’

"So I’d go with De Gea, his music was terrible.”