Anthony Martial responds to cheat storm with defiant message saying there ‘will always be jealous people’

ANTHONY MARTIAL hit back on social media amid a cheat storm.

The Sun exclusively revealed that the French forward sent sex texts to a model behind his eight months pregnant girlfriend’s back.

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But the Manchester United forward posted an Instagram image of him and his girlfriend Melanie Da Cruz Pires in a defiant response.

The caption was in French, but translated as: “There will always be bad people, jealous in this world who will be ready to tell lots of bulls**t to be able to exist but thanks to God I know on which way I go with the best by my side.”

The French winger, 23, was one of a number of Red Devils players who repeatedly underperformed for Jose Mourinho.

The Sun revealed that £75,000-a-week Martial clearly had his mind on other things while getting steamy with Malika Semichi, 20.

He met the French model at a Paris nightclub where they danced and exchanged details.

The next day Malika started receiving X-rated messages and pictures apparently taken at The Lowry hotel, Manchester — where United have stayed before matches and Mourinho has been living.

Malika said: “To start with it was just innocent stuff like ‘how are you doing’ and silly selfies.

But then he started asking more and more personal questions. He seemed really into me.

“I knew he had a girlfriend with a baby on the way, but I just tried to put it to the back of my mind.”

Malika said Martial asked her to send naked pictures and videos and sent her X-rated snaps.

She added: “In one of the messages he asked me for a threesome but I wouldn’t do that.

“He was pestering me for a meet-up.

“He said I’d have to come and see him in Manchester so no one would see us. He was so scared of his girlfriend finding out.

“I entertained it for a bit because I’d liked him so much. But I knew how wrong it was. He had a three-month-old baby at home.

“If the circumstances were different I definitely would have pursued a relationship with him.

“As it stands, I think he should be ashamed of himself.”

Martial met Malika at the upmarket Hobo nightclub in early June, shortly after France manager Didier Deschamps stunned fans by leaving him out of the 2018 World Cup squad.

At the time, his girlfriend Melanie Da Cruz was eight months pregnant with their son Swan.

Malika said: “I was out with some friends. Anthony was sitting at a table close to mine and kept looking over at me.

“Eventually I went over to talk to him and he asked me to dance. He said he was nervous because he was afraid someone would see us together.

“Before he left, he asked for my Snapchat and gave me his.

“He messaged me on there the very next day, and almost every day for the next two weeks.”

Martial’s girlfriend Melanie starred in Secret Story, a French version of reality show Big Brother.

After Swan’s birth on July 26, Martial posted an Instagram snap of his son’s feet.

He wrote: “Thank you Lord for giving me a second beautiful child in good health.”

When Martial met Melanie he was with Samantha Jacquelinet, with whom he has a two-year-old daughter, Peyton.

The £58million star split from childhood sweetheart Samantha, 25, after The Sun on Sunday revealed he had bedded X Factor wannabe Emily Wademan in January 2016.

Martial had a rollercoaster relationship with Portuguese Mourinho at Old Trafford.

He quit United’s pre-season tour of the US after telling the manager he was going to Paris to be with Melanie during her pregnancy.

Mourinho fined him £180,000 — around two weeks’ wages — for going AWOL.