Omar Berrada

If you want a bit of a confidence boost, I'll give you one.

Omar Berrada says we're gonna win this title in 2028.

There you go, Project 150.

We'll be fine.

... you think there's gonna be no repercussion? That's why for me, I rate it, 'cause now these guys have been doing a bad job.

We all here have established Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada, they've been doing a bad job.

So now they're g- they're getting in line 'cause they're thinking, "Rah, it's all well saying, 'Yo, Carrick's good.' Not, they're not great, sorry, and the, the players are not great.

What about these guys? They're, they're getting the players in.

There was, like, s- they found six.

He's thrown Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox under the bus by suggesting that's where the problem is.

He's got some front.

He's almost slagging off his teammates-

Lisandro Martínez.

Mate.

After we got smashed against Atlético, has come out and basically thrown Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox under the bus by suggesting that's where the problem is.

He's got some front.

He did want a new contract on raised terms after winning the World Cup, um, during his first season at the club, but those talks never actually progressed, so he probably doesn't feel he's on enough money.

And the other sense is from those at the club, Ratcliffe, Sir Jim Ratcliffe at the game, uh, Wilcox was at the game, Omar Berrada, the CEO, was at the game.

There is a sense the sources at the club have said none of the trio will want to allow Martinez's comments to go unchecked.

So I don't know.

It felt premeditated to me, and speaking to people close to the player, he was always gonna say this at some stage, and just decided that actually after a 2-0 defeat in the Spanish capital, the time was right.

And I also don't subscribe to the opinion that he's gone rogue because, again, speaking to people, uh, with knowledge of the dressing room at Manchester United, he's not the only senior player who feels that they were let down in the summer in terms of recruitment, who feels that Michael Carrick has been sold short by Jason Wilcox, the sporting director, and Omar Berrada, the chief executive, and Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who obviously is the minority owner but is in charge of the day-to-day football making decisions.

So I, I think this is Lisandro Martinez speaking not just on behalf of himself, and obviously there's a contract situation at play, so you have to factor that in.

But speaking on behalf of a dressing room that is really disappointed with the start that Manchester United have made, and disappointed that the hierarchy missed the opportunity to build on the momentum that they built up under Carrick in the second half of last season.

They backed Erik ten Hag that summer, even though they were doing a sort of beauty parade looking for potential replacements.

They ended up sacking Dan Ashworth and Erik ten Hag, which cost the club a lot of money.

It gave Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada more power.

Then they hired the Portuguese fella, and one, one of the reasons Ashworth went was because he wasn't in favor of that appointment, as I understand it.

I want to win.

I know what the standards of this football club are, and I'll work and believe in the people that are trying to hit those standards." At no point does he say the Glazers, INEOS, Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada match his standards.

That is not an apology.

It's a doubling down.

I think this is a, you know-- it, it's like a-- it's like putting a, a, a, um, a hob, a, a-- you know, a pan of water on your hob, and you put it to a heat that it's gradually simmering.

Oh, it's boiling over now.

I think it's-- I think it was boiling over for a long time because if I sat in a room with Omar Berrada, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Favelle, Jason Wilcox, and I was a player, and I said what Martinez had said, I'd still go public.

I'd still go public because they're not gonna give me an answer that I believe.

If anything, it might have to come from higher than Wilcox, to be honest.

I think it might have to be Berrada if, if you're going to do something like that.

But Berrada does periodically explain, and again, I, I always come back to the, the financials and the, the...

Do you think the football club would've sacked however many people they sacked just for fun? Like, y- you know, like, I, I think the, the depth of the problem and the depth of what this group of people...

Well, I, I don't think Wilcox is perfect at all.

No

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they have always said though, and Berrada did an interview at the start of the summer and said, "We are aware that we might need to pivot and do things a little bit differently depending on how the transfer window actually moves forward." They had a set budget, but we also know that they had lots of positions to cover and not a lot of money to cover with.

We know what success on the pitch looks like, and then we ultimately invert it that goes like, "They must be a well-run club." 'Cause I, I, Man United finished third last year, which all the circumstances, whatever else, but for all intents and purposes, that's an upward trend.

Now they're not going, that, it's fallen off this year, but you, you, you do then go, like, "Well, why would you give Wilcox b- uh, Beret or whatever it was, Brada, credit for that? That they finished third last year, or is it just whatever's happened this week?"

They finished third in a two-horse race, though.

I think that it's important where-