{"id":802173,"date":"2026-10-14T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802173\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:30:17","slug":"did-martinez-go-too-far-or-was-he-spot-on-with-criticism-of-man-utd-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802173\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Martinez go &#8216;too far&#8217; or was he &#8216;spot on&#8217; with criticism of Man Utd hierarchy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;You can&#8217;t keep changing, changing, changing&#8217; &#8211; Martinez supports manager Carrickpublished at 10:20 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:20 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Atletico Madrid 2-0 Man Utd<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dbbc71db-9f26-48c8-81be-402f406e5682.png.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Simon Stone<br \/>BBC Sport Chief Football News Reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Carrick and Lisandro Martinez\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/32f3de17-60b3-4ee2-9f89-12b32498056b.jpg.webp\"  width=\"920\" height=\"518\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe was sitting next to Manchester United chief executive Omar Berrada in the Metropolitano Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have sacked managers in the past two seasons after backing them the previous summer, with Erik ten Hag dismissed in October 2024, before Ruben Amorim was shown the exit door in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lisandro Martinez threw his support behind current manager Michael Carrick last night, instead turning the spotlight on the work done by the club&#8217;s directors in the transfer market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t keep changing, changing, changing the manager,&#8221; said Martinez. &#8220;What about other areas? I can&#8217;t say more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Last season we did everything, we created the base to create an amazing team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martinez&#8217;s comments echo similar ones made by his Argentina defensive partner Cristian Romero against the Tottenham board last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ironically, Romero was in Atletico&#8217;s side against United after his summer move to Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martinez, meanwhile, has one year left on his United contract and has yet to agree an extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;You can&#8217;t keep changing, changing, changing&#8217; &#8211; Martinez supports manager Carrickpublished at 10:20 BST 10:20 BST Atletico Madrid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}