{"id":617180,"date":"2022-08-31T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=617180"},"modified":"2022-08-31T10:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:06:02","slug":"manchester-united-lisandro-martinez-ajax-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/31\/manchester-united-lisandro-martinez-ajax-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United \u2018Warrior\u2019 Sent X-Rated Message to Executive; He Got His Result Within a Few Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/31\/manchester-united-target-dubravka-carrington\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> new boy Lisandro Martinez was so adamant on getting his move to Old Trafford that he called Ajax&#8217;s technical director Gerry Hamstra a &#8216;f****** nobody&#8217; during a meeting, claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraaf.nl\/sport\/89413478\/kudus-weigert-te-trainen-en-wil-naar-everton\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">De Telegraaf<\/a>. This helped him strengthen his chances of joining the Red Devils ahead of the new season, and the move was completed within a few days of this incident.<\/p>\n<h2>Lisandro Martinez Lashed Out at Ajax Executive to Push for Manchester United Move<\/h2>\n<h3>Martinez\u2019s Insult Improved His Chances of Old Trafford Switch<\/h3>\n<p>Things got quite heated between the Argentine centre-back and the Dutch club before he got to complete his move to the Manchester side. De Telegraaf journalist Mike Verweij adds that Martinez was growing increasingly frustrated over the fact that Hamstra was not willing to let him go in the summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/31\/everton-james-garner-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton Winning Race to Sign Manchester United Midfielder James Garner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a meeting, the centre-back told the Ajax technical director that he was a &#8216;f******\u00a0 nobody&#8217;, who was only there because their former executive Marc Overmars had to leave after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/07\/football\/marc-overmars-quits-ajax-inappropriate-messages-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being caught harassing female employees at the club<\/a>. This insult seems to have worked a treat for the Argentine and a few days after this altercation, he was sold to the Red Devils.<\/p>\n<h3>United and Ajax\u2019s Transfer Relationship in the Summer<\/h3>\n<p>There have been a lot of talks and meetings to have taken place between the executives of United and the Eredivisie champions ever since Erik ten Hag officially took over the Premier League side. It all started with the Red Devils <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2022\/07\/21\/why-man-united-cooled-jurrien-timber-transfer-interest\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being interested in signing Ajax defender Jurrien Timber<\/a>, but they failed to get that done as he refused to force his way out of the club.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mufc<\/a>&#39;s August Player of the Month nominees:<\/p>\n<p>Tyrell Malacia<br \/>Lisandro Martinez<br \/>Raphael Varane<\/p>\n<p>Who deserves it? \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DWV37LJlu2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DWV37LJlu2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UtdDistrict (@UtdDistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UtdDistrict\/status\/1564608841601454085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But that certainly wasn&#8217;t the case with Martinez. He actively pushed the Dutch side to let him reunite with Ten Hag at Old Trafford, with the gaffer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/ten-hag-three-key-attributes-warrior-lisandro-martinez-55-3m-ajax-transfer\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">labelling him as a &#8216;warrior&#8217;<\/a> and being a big fan of his work. United had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/transfer\/news\/12691\/12655399\/lisandro-martinez-manchester-united-confirm-57m-signing-of-ajax-defender-on-five-year-contract#:~:text=Manchester%20United%20have%20confirmed%20the,agreed%20between%20the%20two%20clubs.\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">end up paying over \u00a356 million<\/a> for the centre-back, who has since put in Man of the Match performances in the wins over Liverpool and Southampton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/premier-league-predictions\/\" target=\"_self\">Premier League Predictions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>United weren&#8217;t only done with the Argentine centre-back&#8217;s arrival. They went back to Ajax and after weeks of discussions, the Red Devils had to relent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-in\/news\/man-utd-sign-antony-transfer-85m-brazilian-forward-ajax\/blt229322f87ce7b6f0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pay over \u00a380 million for Brazilian winger Antony<\/a>. In the end, United paid over \u00a3130 million to Ajax in transfer fees for two players, but were able to get Ten Hag two of the biggest transfer targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United new boy Lisandro Martinez was so adamant on getting his move to Old Trafford that he called Ajax&#8217;s technical director Gerry Hamstra a &#8216;f****** nobody&#8217; during a meeting, claims De Telegraaf. This helped him strengthen his chances of joining the Red Devils ahead of the new season, and the move was completed within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":617199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[9239],"class_list":["post-617180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-manchester-united","tag-lisandro-martinez"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}