the 2-0 defeat<\/a> in the Spanish capital and have made their worst start to a league season in 40 years.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n
\u201cReally poor,\u201d Martinez told Amazon Prime when asked about the team\u2019s performance against Atletico.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to control myself a lot but sometimes is a reflection\u2026 [or] mirror of how our club is at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martinez said he \u201c100 percent\u201d expected more investment in the squad over the summer after United finished third in the Premier League last season and returned to Europe\u2019s top competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expect more from our technical director [Jason Wilcox], I have to be honest, as players we have to do more, but it is also important when you make a strong squad to be ready for these kind of nights,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
Martinez said last season the club had \u201ccreated the base to create an amazing team\u201d, but they did not follow through.<\/p>\n
Pressure is mounting on coach Michael Carrick after five games without a win, but Martinez suggested sacking the Englishman was not the way forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t keep changing, changing, changing the manager. What about other areas? I can\u2019t say more,\u201d said Martinez.<\/p>\n
\u201cTonight it is easy to say the coach [is to blame], easy to say the players, but also we have to see other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Red Devils minority owner Jim Ratcliffe was at the stadium to watch the league-phase defeat by last season\u2019s semi-finalists.<\/p>\n
Man United spent around 140 million pounds ($185m) this summer on midfielders Carlos Baleba, Youri Tielemans and Andrey Santos, but fans were upset the club did not reinforce other positions, including left-back and striker.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters after the game, Carrick said he had not heard Martinez\u2019s comments and so could not judge them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a little bit on the emotions of the game as well, of coming here and being disappointed not to get something from the game,\u201d said the coach.<\/p>\n
Former Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney said Martinez\u2019s criticism was excessive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s maybe gone a bit too far, and that should have stayed internal,\u201d Rooney told Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can clearly see that he cares and he wants the club to invest more money in more players, and to do that he\u2019s probably one of the players who\u2019ll be out the door if I\u2019m being honest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United beaten 2-0 at Atletico Madrid, but defender Lisandro Martinez slams club\u2019s failure to invest in team.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,2057,596,588,85,3586],"class_list":["post-927285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927285","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=927285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}