He is not. He specifically informed the club that he wanted Antony at the beginning of the summer.According to reports, we were scouting Antony from his Brazilian days, so it wasn't like our scouting department needed to run a background check on him.
We could have bought him around the same fee we bought Martinez, but instead good old Murtough and Arnold decided to dilly dally and ended up at the start of august with 1 right winger out(Greenwood) and 1 right winger still not fully adapting(Sancho). Not his fault those 2 clowns in their desire to impress the fans missed out on our No.1 target in De Jong, instead of stopping the pursuit and moving on to plan, but also found themselves in a similar situation with Antony, who unlike De Jong was willing to come over, hence we had to pay an arm and a leg for him.
Please, don't absolve the primary culprits of their responsibilities. If a CEO needs to blindly follow someone from the middle management, he needs to be fired on the spot, period. Same thing goes for Murtough. They are both hired to represent and work for Manchester United, but not to be ETH's errand boys. And unless ETH's last name is Glazer, nobody should blindly follow him and pander to any of his wishes if this goes against the club's interests.
There have been plenty of instances where the CEOs/DoFs went against their manager's desires for the betterment of the club. The 2 most famous ones are Florentino Perez not willing to sign Pogba even when Zidane wanted him on numerous occassions(right call!). The famous Edwards and him declining to sign Brandt and signing Salah instead to Klopp's displeasure.
It's funny how other football clubs can do this, but not Man Utd apparently. In the eyes of the fans, our managers are elevated to status of demi-gods who require sacrifices in form of only the players they desire. And if they don't get them, then we are damned to eternal mediocrity. Except when we do, and managers fail only for our fans to realize that the so called demi-god who everyone including the club hierarchy had to worship is just a mere mortal of a man.
As far as Antony goes, I've already addressed his price tag above, but he is clearly not crap. Overpriced? Sure. Saying he is crap, when we are clearly a much better team with him in the starting XI.