If Lisandro Martinez - who actually plays for Man Utd - is not entitled to express his opinion on the club he plays for, because his form isn't great - does that mean basically 99% of us can't express an opinion either?
Lisandro Martinez’s view that Michael Carrick has been sold short and the squad has not been equipped with the depth to fight on multiple fronts is shared by several senior players - and football staff. It has been discussed in the dressing room with the club aware of frustrations around recruitment.
There was a fear ahead of the campaign that the squad would not be strengthened properly - the lack of cover at left-back and striker were major concerns, which is evidenced in how much the need for reinforcements was stressed during pre-season interviews.
Told the driving reason behind Martinez’s airing these grievances publicly is fury that Carrick is likely going to lose his job despite not being given the tools to have a fair crack, and players are sick of reset after reset, without questions asked of the people in charge and what direction they’re taking the club in.
Carrick and the team have faced criticism, accepted it, and owned up to performances being nowhere near good enough.
Where is the accountability from the people who keep leading the club to one doom spiral after another?
Incredible that people are being negative about Martinez.
The amount of boring player interviews we get and finally someone speaks his mind, and he’s wrong?
Good on him and more of the same. #MUFC
Don’t really see how Martinez’s comments can be questioned for accuracy. It’s obvious the coach & small number of v good players at MUFC were let down in summer. I’d also be curious to know more about a hiring process that led MU to hire so many ex-MCFC into key positions.
It’s not even a case of if Michael Carrick goes, Jason Wilcox must go anymore.
Jason Wilcox’s position is untenable. He must be axed. The fans know it. The players know it.
Ratcliffe can’t pick and choose when he’s ruthless. He’s not fit for purpose. Get him out.
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We were among the first to raise the alarm over ADMARC's outrageous proposal to spend K2.97 billion on just 100 tarpaulins. Almost K30 million for a single tarpaulin! By our estimates, the prices were inflated by as much as six times. Six times!
Now PPDA has woken up from its slumber to announce that it will review the procurement. How convenient!
I find this whole thing rather amusing. Are we seriously expected to believe that ADMARC had reached the point of announcing the award of a K2.97 billion contract without the relevant oversight institutions knowing anything about it?
PPDA now tells us that the procurement was within ADMARC's approval threshold. Fair enough. But that only raises more questions about the safeguards meant to protect public money from being squandered.
And now, because we, the people, have made noise about this obscenity, we are being treated to the familiar spectacle of authorities announcing that they will investigate, review, scrutinise and establish what happened.
We have seen this movie before.
My fear is that this will turn into another elaborate exercise in pulling wool over the eyes of Malawians. Make a show of reviewing the documents, issue a carefully worded statement, and hope that public outrage eventually dies down.
Let nobody insult our intelligence.
We are not merely interested in whether ADMARC ticked the right boxes, obtained the right signatures and followed the correct procurement procedures. You can follow every procedure in the book and still rob taxpayers blind through grotesquely inflated prices.
The fundamental question remains: How on earth does a tarpaulin cost K30 million?
That is the question PPDA must answer. Not with bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo, but with hard evidence, actual market prices and a credible explanation of how these astronomical figures were arrived at.
And if the prices were indeed inflated, we want to know who was behind it, who stood to benefit and what action will be taken.
We raised the alarm because this is public money. Money belonging to Malawians who are struggling to make ends meet, in a country where hospitals lack essential medicines and public services are crying out for resources.
K2.97 billion is not pocket change. And Malawians are not fools.
We shall not be pacified by the mere announcement of a review. We want answers. We want accountability. And we want consequences where wrongdoing is established.
Nde no fuel kuli Mvula.
Magetsi athime. Madzi asiye. Utunge amvulawo but you don’t have gas to cook cz gas akusowa.
But you still have to go to work. Good luck to everyone. I kept saying DPP Ndendende MCP before they came in.
Amayi ndi abambo anyamata ndi atsikana open your eyes amwenye akuyenela kupita kwawo Ku India akatsekule ma shop kuno we want investors serious and big#abahambe
MALAWIAN YOUTHS:
Lets wake up, we can't continue being Twitter fingers and Facebook rants while politician eat our money and act like freedom fighters. Kamangila is one of the few thats woke. If we gather in numbers and demand accountability we can start to change things.