Someone involved with the club got a cut of his transfer fees and I won't be convinced otherwise.
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- Appearances
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- Goals
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- Assists
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- Yellow cards
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Sadly we bought a 15-20 million footballer for 80 million. There is no way to undo that kind of financial carnage. Nobody stupid enough to help us recover it. If he'd shown some talent but inconsistency or there was something to grasp onto to show a real player lurking in there maybe someone would throw 30-40 million at us. But we've seen very little so that's not going to happen.
Hahaa, yep I'm not sure I'd thought that one through fully ..
Perhaps we can get him on loan somewhere in Europe, hope he doesn't disgrace himself any further and maybe get some cash for him. Colossal waste of money whatever way you slice it.
When I watch Phil Foden play, I think of Antony and shed a tear.
God, Redknapp is such a bellend. He doesn't listen. Too occupied by what he's going to say even though he's been given the answers.
On the bright side, at least our scouts aren't useless. It's just a, shame no fecker listen to them
Better players than him have come to the PL and struggled. The real problem is these punts and players with terrible attitudes (sancho) and fogies (Casemiro and Varane) all cost a fortune for a player that could just as easily fail. We are so bad at this. I believed in Antony and Sancho but in hindsight it’s just more terrible business. Amad couldn’t have done any worse at this point if he’d not been injured or Pellistri. So fecked off with it all.
VDS told them to go as high as possible and they obliged. Any other club in the world would've walked away long before that point.
21 appearances
feck all goals
feck all assists
But not to worry ….he’s still getting paid £200,000 a week
feck all goals
feck all assists
But not to worry ….he’s still getting paid £200,000 a week
Get in the bin
Anthony’s price tag was no fault of his, We paid £80 million for a winger that’s ok at tracking back, he has no direct attacking skills and is not being coached in anyway that helps his understanding of the game, The sooner he’s gone and we can move on from this total disaster the better.
gotta respect it
Plus he brought all the bs to the club guilty or innocent what due diligence was done by John Murtough must go asap, we need to get ETH and Antony to go with him on the 1st January. We should sell Antony back to Ajax for £25m and give them ETH to sweeten the deal !
Il add Amad to the list of people who probably should start ahead of
Well there is, end of season his balance is £40m. You move Antony on and bring Greenwood back
Okay, but that has very little to do with recouping any of the 80 million we spent because "moving Antony on" is likely to be for a negligible sum. The die is cast on that one, unless Antony by some miracle suggests he's capable of decent football at any point.
It is weird how managers get blamed for fees when you think about it. No manager will say ‘no’ to a player if there’s no other options because they want competition and options.
Our scouts are brilliant, they've bought us Haaland, Bellingham, Nunez, Gakpo, Bruno etc. etc. The lack of a strong recruiting organization lead by a DOF who knows what they're doing - someone that brings data science, scouts, coaches and their own input to recruitment is what's missing.
I have seen enough of him now, take the hit and move him on the cheap in the summer.
I kinda agree with everyone else saying he might not be worth the 80m outlay we paid
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He should but to be fair the whole squad almost to a man look very uncoached recently.
He’s genuinely one of the worst players I’ve ever seen. And I don’t just mean at United. He doesn’t have a single redeeming quality as an attacker. Not one.
I’m baffled how he even made it as a professional footballer.
I’m baffled how he even made it as a professional footballer.
The sooner he's out of the team, the better.
When Hojlund is fit again, Garnacho should start on the right.
When Hojlund is fit again, Garnacho should start on the right.
A disastrous signing of historical proportions. Possibly the biggest flop of all time. Students of football transfer history will be studying the Antony signing for years to come as a model of complete breakdown of best practice and due diligence.
He’s a waste of space… like playing with 10 men. Feck off
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Greenwood infects every thread. Do not want him, do not need him. Sell and be done with that circus.
It’s obviously a massive failure on multiple levels. So he’s not Ten Hag’s first choice, yet we panic buy him for £90m. What the feck is wrong with this club. £25m was probably a fair assessment at the time, given his performances at Ajax, but we need strong negotiators at the helm so we don’t get taken to the cleaners. I just can’t wrap my head around how senior figures at the club can green light it. How there isn’t a voice of reason that says no, he’s not worth anywhere near that much regardless of how much we need a right sided attacker, we will wait and bring the right player in.
Even Obertan and, god forgive, Bebe were superior wingers.
Can we pay Ajax to take him back as part of the process of sacking Ten Hag?
It's the difference when you raise talent and don't try to buy it on a checkbook basis to please the fans... I've been a Spanish lover of United for more than 15 years and the identity of United in the last decade leaves a lot to be desired, you must change everything the estates and start from scratch.
Jarrod Bowen is a much better player, scorer, and incisive in the game than Antony... you pay too much for your signings and that is a shame.
100m on Antony is a crime against football. Fifa should penalise us for market distortion.
To think about it, Antony is the most consistent player we have on the books. He is consistently shit in every game he plays, he consistently cannot do absolutely anything attacking wise.
Reading the description of the Casemiro deal which happened at the same time (see below), desperation and panic seems to be a key theme.
It's fine to say "we should walk away at that price". But a key part of doing so has to be a willingness on the club's part to accept the consequences, which is that you don't address the issue and you will likely suffer in the short term as a result. But you accept that short term pain with a focus on making decisions for the longer term. Instead there seems to be a lack of longer term vision and/or a willingness to adhere to that vision even if it means some terrible results in the short term.
In hindsight we may have been better off taking the approach that last season didn't matter, we weren't likely to finish in the CL places and we weren't going to try to force ourselves into that position with signings that weren't for reasonable fees and made long term sense. If that meant finishing mid-table or worse in ETH's first season, so be it, you accept his job is secure regardless because that's the conditions you've given him. And as a result of that outlook, there would be no panic buys after poor early results, even amidst the inevitable fan-complaints and negativity.
ETH should be sacked for buying Antony for 80M. Hell he trained him before he should veto given Antony for free
I don’t even see 15 million footballer; that gets you Elanga, and he looks far more effective than Antony.
He looks far more effective because he doesn’t play for United. Put prime Robben in this Utd side and he would look like Antony