{"id":932468,"date":"2026-10-14T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932468\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:54:09","slug":"lisandro-martinez-hits-out-at-manchester-united-hierarchy-i-expect-more-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932468\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisandro Mart\u00ednez hits out at Manchester United hierarchy: \u2018I expect more\u2019 | Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lisandro Mart\u00ednez has hit out at the Manchester United<\/a> hierarchy, blaming the lack of investment as their dismal start to the season continued. Goals from Pablo Barrios and Ademola Lookman pushed United to a 2-0 defeat at Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, and the Argentina defender described that as a \u201cmirror\u201d of the way the club are. \u201cTonight it is easy to say the coach, easy to say the players but also we have to see other areas,\u201d he said, pointing upwards.<\/p>\n

Asked for his appraisal of the night, Mart\u00ednez said: \u201cReally poor, really poor. I have to control myself a lot but sometimes is a reflection of the mirror of how is our club at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is annoying, disappointing coming here and I am not seeing my team trying to get an amazing result here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect more [investment], 100%. I 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 this kind of night. Last season we did everything, we created the base to create an amazing team.\u201d<\/p>\n

United won 12 of 17 games under Michael Carrick last season but during the summer they made only three major signings \u2013 Carlos Baleba, Andrey Santos and Youri Tielemans \u2013 plus the back-up goalkeeper Karl Darlow on a free transfer from Leeds, and have won only twice in all competitions so far this term. They have suffered the worst start to a league campaign in 40 years.<\/p>\n

Asked if the manager had been backed sufficiently, Mart\u00ednez replied: \u201cI don\u2019t think so. He does his best. Every season is different. You can\u2019t stay with what you did last season. The teams knows how you play, they know every detail, if you don\u2019t change next season [it] is a big problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t keep changing, changing, changing the manager. What about other areas?\u201d Mart\u00ednez added, looking up. \u201cI can\u2019t say more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lisandro Mart\u00ednez said afterwards: \u2018You can\u2019t keep changing the manager. What about other areas?\u2019 Photograph: PSNEWZ\/SIPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

When Mart\u00ednez\u2019s words were put to Carrick, he said: \u201cI haven\u2019t seen the interview. I have half-heard about it. I think it\u2019s a little bit the emotions of the game [talking]. I have to find out a bit more about it to be honest to decide what and if anything is going to be done. I can\u2019t comment further.\u201d<\/p>\n

United\u2019s manager also insisted that his side had \u201cfour almost one vs ones\u201d and that he did not understand Leny Yoro\u2019s red card on a night when they could have gone back to Manchester with a different result. \u201cIt is easy to look and think there is something deeply wrong, I understand that, but the players have been great,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s willing, and [they are] disappointed that they haven\u2019t come out of here with something. We think we could have, should have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisandro Mart\u00ednez has hit out at the Manchester United hierarchy, blaming the lack of investment as their dismal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-932468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}