Lisandro Martinez meets with his Manchester Untied manager Michael Carrick before apologizing for criticism of the club.<\/p>\n
Published On 15 Oct 202615 Oct 2026<\/p>\n
Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez apologised on Thursday for criticising the club\u2019s hierarchy following their Champions League defeat by Atletico Madrid, after holding talks with manager Michael Carrick and senior officials.<\/p>\n
Martinez met Carrick and club executives after training, two days after saying the club needed greater investment<\/a> to help the team compete at the highest level following Tuesday\u2019s 2-0 loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n \u201cToday I met with the club\u2019s leadership and the manager,\u201d Martinez said in an Instagram post, in his second statement since the interview.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a very positive conversation where we were able to exchange views and speak openly about what happened after Tuesday\u2019s game.\u201d<\/p>\n A club source said that any internal disciplinary action would remain private, adding that it had been Martinez\u2019s decision to apologise publicly and that all parties considered the matter closed.<\/p>\n British media, including the BBC, reported that United fined the defender over the outburst.<\/p>\n Martinez acknowledged that his frustration following the defeat had got the better of him and apologised for choosing the wrong moment to air his feelings.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone knows that I am a passionate person and that I live football with great intensity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe frustration of the defeat led me to express how I felt at a time and place that perhaps were not the right ones, and for that I want to apologise.\u201d<\/p>\n The Argentina international had singled out director of football Jason Wilcox in the post-game interview, saying United needed more signings to compete with their rivals and build a squad capable of challenging in Europe.<\/p>\n Martinez said his comments had not reflected the unity required at Old Trafford and stressed his belief that everyone at the club was working towards the same goal.<\/p>\n \u201cOur club is at its best when we are all united, and I recognise that my words in that moment did not help with that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI know that every single person at Manchester United is doing everything possible to achieve our shared ambition, bringing the success that this club and its supporters deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n Martinez finished his statement by drawing a line under the episode.<\/p>\n \u201cWith this situation now behind us, we are fully focused on winning together.\u201d<\/p>\n United are 13th in the Premier League after six games in their worst start in 40 years. They travel to seventh-placed Leeds United on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisandro Martinez meets with his Manchester Untied manager Michael Carrick before apologizing for criticism of the club. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[591,218,59,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-gb","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804207","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=804207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}