Don’t forget we have lost Greenwood, more than likely.
Antony | Here we go! €100mill, contract until June 2027, option 'til 2028.
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No I honestly don't agree. For Suarez I can understand that people felt like this. Antony is not worse than any average South American/Latin player.Yes it is. It's in our constitution. I just amended it with a sharpy. Which is totally fine. It's great.
I will concede it's not a trophy.
Surely even an Ajacied can admit Antony is a twat though. I'd happily admit to Feyenoord players being twats, but you bought ours
Sign him and Richarlison so we have a pair of shithousing Brazilian forwards who will wind up rival fans, Souness and the English media
Yeah fair enough.
You know I'm just bitter because he scored the winner in that last Ajax Feyenoord in which after a million years we had a shot at winning on you turf
Nobody foresaw Rashford’s precipitous decline this year so in reality Sancho has replaced the player Rashford was before his injury. We’ve lost Greenwood in this space and the transfer of the two young RWs haven’t quite worked out so far. Sancho is slightly better at left wing than right and we have a competent footballer at left back for him to link with so I think it’s fair enough that we need a right winger.
A year ago we had Greenwood as our future. A year ago Rashford was also seen very differently to now. Sancho is going to be a star, but for now, he's a starter on the left since every other winger is useless, and even at that, we barely have other wingers so we need reinforcements there anyway. And in particular, RW, because Sancho is the closest we have to a natural RW and he is equally good on either wing IMO, just depends on system.
But mainly, Greenwood was deleted from the club essentially so we need to spend big to replace him.
Sooo is the source reporting this worth paying any attention to it or is the reporter another clickbait merchant?
Agreed. We need a right winger because we already have several options on the left and Sancho is by far the best option on that side. Even from a depth standpoint, it makes more sense to focus on a right winger unless we believe in Pellistri.
I'd only want this signing if we can put him on the left for bants
It would have been a draw if he didn't score.Yeah fair enough.
You know I'm just bitter because he scored the winner in that last Ajax Feyenoord in which after a million years we had a shot at winning on you turf
Even Elanga the other day after his Sweden goal said he prefers the left
Yeah. Like hypothetically if Rashfords form recovers, he can play on the left and Sancho right. But if Sancho is out, we go to Elanga on the right, while if Rashford is injured, we go to Sancho on the left. So a right winger like Antony gives us 3 potentially top options where we can rotate them, give them competition with each other and be able to take an injury without dropping quality at all. Not to mention that this is based on the hypothetical of Rashford rediscovering his form... Not a guarantee obviously. Elanga can then act as the deeper depth, which is fine and more appropriate for him.
There is also Martial if he isn't sold who is better on the left than the right. Also didn't people suggest that Elanga was more comfortable on the left?
Potentially as São Paulo are due a percentage on the transfer profit so it’s not out of the question that it gets picked up in Brazil by a journalist there.
I'm struggling to think of a game where Samcho was good on the right for us
Most people who thought this hadn't seen him play and barely read about him online. Sancho had most of his better performances for Dortmund on the left. It's not really a surprise that he is utilised there. And even if he eventually settles down on the right, we need more options than one on the right wing. Antony makes sense - especially since quality right wings are hard to come by nowadays.
Looking at Sancho's takes for United as a projection for what to expect in the future isn't really the right thing to do, given our whole team was a disaster. He's shown he can be an excellent player on either side, he, like anyone, needs a functional system first. It's Pointless making judgements on most of our players though because they just did not have the base to get the best out of them.
He had good games on the right for Dortmund. Everyone on all positions was mostly bad for us last season except for Ronaldo and De Gea.
Becoming a common theme. Much like your shite posting.
I'd rather get him than Nunez.
We need a striker though, maybe not sm 80m rated one but we need one
He performed quite clearly better on the left with us and with dortmund whether the team was dysfunctional or not. Thing is if we were to imagine Sancho starts performing on the right with ETH then we would need a left winger because Rashford has been uttershit for too long to go next season with faith he would turn it around, while Elanga is also not good enough.
So whichever flank we think Sancho performs in then we would need to buy on the opposite of that flank because Sancho is our only good winger right now
I agree that right is a bigger priority, but generally speaking, Sancho can play on either. Put it this way - I fully expect Ten Hag to get the best out of Sancho and get Rashford going again. I'd expect that from any coach, let alone one like Ten Hag. I always feel you need 3 high level wide players to rotate between and push each other on and to provide cover, and this is one where Rashford is a LW, the new signing should be a RW and Sancho can play either wing. This way, any injury or loss of form has an easy solution without dropping a level. We shouldn't go in expecting Rashford to be a starter from day 1, he has to improve to get there, but I have faith he can get back into the trusting rotation/competition. But regardless, it's more we need a left footed RW to replace Greenwood.
Would actually love those two here, Richarlison central would do well for us.Sign him and Richarlison so we have a pair of shithousing Brazilian forwards who will wind up rival fans, Souness and the English media
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Antony's staff travelled to Europe to negotiate with Manchester United
Is this journalist reliable?
Lets us pray.
Can't wait fo see him on left wing
Honestly mate I don't know, he has a checkmark and 20k followers, that's all we've got to go on.
Do we need a right winger more then a cb/rb? I’m not sure. Should be prioritising the defence and midfield first… let’s make us hard to play against and then focus on the attack later.
the great tradition continuesCan't wait fo see him on left wing
I'm on the fence about this, his output seems a bit lacking to be honest.
Sign him and sell rashford, we'll profit from it both on the pitch and on the balance sheet.
How do you think ETH will deploy Sancho? Any chance we might see him centrally and Bruno wide right and Rashford wide left?
Why not? He looks like an exciting player .. and we haven't had an exciting player in OT for a while ..
That’s exactly why we signed sancho isn’t it?
Would Ajax accept a 80-85M bid for both Antony and Timber?
I think he'd be great. IMO United has been crying out for a left-footed player on the right with flair and tricks.
Sancho on the left, Antony on the right. Exciting duo.
Sancho on the left, Antony on the right. Exciting duo.
That's probably the price for one player, in euros that is
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