Manchester United won the Premier League Summer Series following their draw with everton but Bruno Fernandes was not impressed with his side’s performance against the Toffees
Bruno Fernandes claimed Manchester United were “lazy” in their final tour game and said they must make more signings before the new season. United drew 2-2 with Everton at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium to win the Premier League Summer Series, following wins over West Ham and Bournemouth.
Fernandes, who played the full 90 minutes, scored the opener from the penalty spot, but Ruben Amorim’s side twice relinquished the lead, which drew a strong reaction from the skipper. “It’s improving, but it’s not where we want it to be,” said Fernandes.
“I don’t want to have a dig at anyone, but I think the club is doing the best they can in terms of all the financial situations they talk about.
“I don’t know about it, I’m not involved in that. But obviously it was crystal clear we needed more competition for the players that were here.
“We needed more quality to get everyone to step up a bit more and to have more to do to get into the starting line-up. I think that’s what the club and the manager are trying to do and hopefully we can get one or two players more to help with that.”
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United ended last season in 15th place, their lowest finish for half a century, with Fernandes admitting there had to be a change in attitude and mentality after such an embarrassing campaign.
“It’s every detail, every small detail matters,” said Fernandes. “At this football club you can’t do anything wrong on the pitch and off the pitch, because it’s too big worldwide and you get punished by that.
“You get the attention of the media and your fans and you have to be aware of that. At this club the culture here was winning and we need to bring that back.
“Not only the winning mentality that we need, and I think that’s always been there, but obviously if you don’t win you don’t show it.
“The club is trying to improve other things, the facilities have improved, we tried to improve the team, the staff, a lot of things. A lot of people have suffered from this, a lot of people who had been working at the club for many, many years had to go.
“The fans are paying more for tickets and we appreciate all the effort they put in for us so now it’s up to us to pay it back on the pitch.”
Amorim said he welcomed such straight-talking from Fernandes and said it showed his skipper knows there is still much work to done for United to get back to challenging for the major trophies.
“I’m happy for the players to have that feeling,” said Amorim. “It’s saying that they understand the situation. So it’s a good feeling.
“It’s understanding that in this club, everything is ups and downs. We understand that, but I prefer that feeling [the ups] than the other side.”
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