After Manchester United lost 0-2 away to Atlético Madrid in the Champions League, Lisandro Martinez called on the club's leadership to invest more in transfers during an interview with Amazon. Jamie Carragher criticized his remarks on CBS Sports, emphasizing that such comments help no one and that the club should act like a family and present a united front publicly.

Kate: Lisandro Martinez criticizes Manchester United's leadership. Oh my God, here we go. This was after the defeat to Atlético Madrid.

Lisandro Martinez: "We played very well last season. Now we expect more from the leadership, more players to be brought in to make the team more competitive, because many other teams have also brought in many players. I expect 100% more investment. I expect more from our technical director Wilcox. I have to be honest, as players we need to do more. But building a strong team and preparing the team for matches like tonight is also very important. It's easy to blame the manager, it's easy to blame the players, but we also need to look at other aspects."

Kate: By the way, he said that in his Amazon interview. Jamie, what do you make of him saying something like that after the match?

Carragher: Saying something like that right after the match helps no one. Over the next few days, this will be the focal point, and everyone will be talking about these comments. Fans of every club don't like these suit-wearing managers, they don't like the club leadership. So Manchester United fans will love hearing these words and think he's expressed it perfectly. But I think it's really poor timing for him to say something like that. I mean that seriously.

He said: "We played very well last season." That's not true. A manager was sacked last season. Sacked!

They finished third because they had no cup competitions to play. They had no European football and were knocked out of the cup competitions early. And then everyone said Manchester United finished third, what a great season. They also finished third because Liverpool and Chelsea played so poorly.

This season we're seeing the real Manchester United. The reason they didn't buy more players in the summer is that in the four or five years Martinez has been there—as far as I can recall—they've only played in the Champions League once, which is this season, only once.

If you don't have Champions League revenue every season but you spend 200 million on transfers every season, that has to stop at some point because you don't have that much money. This summer Manchester United is still paying the next installment for players bought years ago. That's why they don't have as much money to spend now. You can't keep spending like that. And, as I said, this group of players has had multiple managers, but they haven't achieved nearly enough. They've played poorly, and they played poorly tonight.

As for him personally, I think he's a good player by the way. He's a World Cup winner, I understand that. But his start to the season has been terrible, absolutely terrible, his performance has been really poor. Everyone will love hearing these words, Manchester United fans will. But it helps no one.

Richards: Tell me what you really think.

Carragher: That's what you get paid for. What do you make of Martinez's comments?

Richards: I think a lot of what you just said is true, a lot of it.

Carragher: Which parts do you agree with?

Richards: No, no, I agree with what you said, really. I think you're right.

Kate: Do you think he blamed the wrong people, or do you think his comments themselves were inappropriate?

Richards: No, I think if you're going into the Champions League with a back four that's been playing together for a while... Jamie mentioned the young players in the team earlier, and that was a good point. If Manchester United wants to compete at the highest level, it needs a better squad. So I can understand Martinez's point of view. But I can also understand Jamie's point: if you keep spending, keep spending, keep spending, when does it stop?

Carragher: Okay, I want to say something about that briefly. One of those young defenders, Yoro, cost fifty million. At the time he was regarded as the best young defender in the world. You know, both Real Madrid and Liverpool wanted him. He's been there for two years now. I'm not even sure how old he is now, but everyone still sees him as a kid. He was regarded as the best young defender at the time. And it's interesting when players say something like that: they never talk about the position they play.

Whenever a player says: "We're not doing enough in the transfer market," he's definitely not talking about centre-backs. He won't be talking about centre-backs; he's talking about other positions on the pitch. So what do you think the players who came in during the summer feel when they hear him saying this now?

I'm not criticizing him just because he's a Manchester United player. When Ruben Amorim criticized the club leadership last season, I said immediately he should be sacked. Not just because of what he said. My point at the time was: you're lucky you still have your job. You can't criticize your superiors like that.

I've always rejected this approach. I think football clubs are like a family. In a family, a lot of things happen: people argue, people are unhappy about certain things. I can understand that he might be unhappy with the squad, and Michael Carrick perhaps too. But as a football club, as a family, we all know there will be issues between siblings, parents, aunts and uncles. Someone might not like someone else, and there will be arguments from time to time. But I'm telling you, once you leave the house, you have to present a united front. You have to do that; you have to protect each other.

I mean that seriously now, I really do believe this. I think football clubs are the same. When I was at Liverpool, if someone said something they shouldn't have, or criticized the manager, or the manager criticized the leadership, I hated it. We should be a unit. It might be a bit of a show, but you have to do it; families do it, and football clubs do it. Now this will be the talking point for everyone. This will escalate, it will blow up completely. I think he's crossed a line with these comments.

Kate: From a manager's perspective, what do you think?

Henry: I'm not a manager anymore; I'm sitting here with you. I've always said that if you want to say something like that, leave it in the dressing room. It's that simple. That's the only acceptable way to handle it.

If rumors from that room, from the dressing room, then leak out, that's a different matter. You should always say it to the person's face, no matter who you think the problem is with, you should tell them directly, and that's it. Saying something like that through the media, through... I don't actually like that. I've seen some players do it for certain reasons, to force a transfer.

But I've always believed that whatever you think of someone, you tell them to their face. And I'm not trying to deliberately defend him by taking the other side, but right after a match you sometimes say things you might regret later, because you might be very angry, very disappointed at that moment. Maybe he was trying to protect his manager, because you can see he mentioned things about the manager and so on. But those are things you can say in the dressing room.

Carragher: What do you think?

Kate: What do I think? I completely understand your point about family, and I think you're right.

Übersetzt von KI.

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