Another one to try and sell to Saudi Arabia, he’s been a huge flop and just looks nowhere near good enough.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 38
- Goals
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- Assists
- 2
- Yellow cards
- 6
Players over your park who are better. I wish I was joking.
I said many times that James looks as a player who won a lottery to play for Man Utd. BUT, feck me if Antony is an upgrade.
Why would the Saudi's sign him? They sign famous/popular players, over the hill but at least something of a reputation. What has he done to be a target for a Saudi club?
Part of me was hoping he'd get some comeuppance too. It was weird because Doku didn't even seem to be winding him up, beyond just being far better at football.
I had hopes for him , but he is dreadful. I'm done with him . What professional footballer can only use one foot in the modern day ? He is a sham . I would say showboat with tricks but he doesn't even do that. Waste of time and money
Some of you will look back and be embarrassed by your posts in this thread today.
Fine, he's not all he was cracked up to be (we told you then but you convinced yourselves he would come good), but getting mad at a player for showing some emotion when his team was getting battered by their bitter rivals at home?
What was he supposed to do? Take it meekly like the rest of our lot?
We moan here all week about players not caring, not showing passion, not playing for the badge, and you will turn on someone that at least showed some fire today?
His thread shouldn't even be bumped today given how few minutes he had to impact anything.
Fine, he's not all he was cracked up to be (we told you then but you convinced yourselves he would come good), but getting mad at a player for showing some emotion when his team was getting battered by their bitter rivals at home?
What was he supposed to do? Take it meekly like the rest of our lot?
We moan here all week about players not caring, not showing passion, not playing for the badge, and you will turn on someone that at least showed some fire today?
His thread shouldn't even be bumped today given how few minutes he had to impact anything.
Show passion? All he showed is what his we all know, he’s a shit footballer with an immature little dog syndrome
Might be the single biggest mistake of Ten Hag's reign blowing the budget on this clown. And also the single biggest issue with continuing to trust him, because if he really couldn't see how painfully average/limited Antony was as a footballer while having him in his old team, then he can't evaluate talent for shit.
Tbh no real big issues with today.
It's the general play from him that we've seen upto this point where we know this is as good as it probably gets.
It's the general play from him that we've seen upto this point where we know this is as good as it probably gets.
Yea he sure showed them.
Why did he not start, and was only brought in 5 fecking minutes before the end of the match, today, against City? EtH explained Varane missing, but he was never asked about Antony.
Antony does 10x more defensively. Some would argue he is also way better than Dan James offensively, if he wasn't so one-footed and was a good finisher, but without going into that debate - Antony's defensive work is clearly much better than anything anybody has ever seen from Dan James.
Can't believe I scrolled past two pages of angry post-match comments before I read one like this that I could somewhat relate to.
Wtf?
this kind of shit has to be unique to the caf. I can't imagine going on an Everton forum after they lost to Liverpool and seeing their fans saying "I would've loved it if Van Dijk chinned one of our players. Would've served him right for doing a nasty challenge. What does he think this is, a local derby or something?!"No to everything you just said and Dan James is infinitely better than Antony yet wasn't good enough for us.
We spent 90 million on a slower less effective version who couldn't cross if his life was on the line
I'm going to try to be as fair as possible to him. When he does play, he gives 100% workrate and energy on the right wing which is more than can be said of a lot of the players. But he offers next to nothing from an attacking point of view, mainly because he's too one footed and does the exact same thing every time he gets the ball. Any moderately competent Championship level left back could mark him out of a game, I'm convinced of it.
Having said that, against a team like City where we need all hands on deck defensively, I'd still pick him on the right wing ahead of Bruno. City got so much joy down that side it was embarrassing.
Having said that, against a team like City where we need all hands on deck defensively, I'd still pick him on the right wing ahead of Bruno. City got so much joy down that side it was embarrassing.
What a signing. Even Chelsea must be envious of the ‘talent’ we pay big money for.
Less is more
.I just looked him up and he's top 1 percentile for xF parameter (probability to start a fight on the pitch).
I said the same thing, and went into detail about why he'd be a bad signing, and got nothing but abuse and comments like "will Yagami ever be happy with a transfer" as if we had an excellent window or something. Now, it's generally accepted that his first transfer window was as bad as this summers.
I am sick and tired of our supposed offensvie players only being judged on what they do on the defense. If they did their job they wouldnt have to work as hard defensively. James actually had pace and would get goals and assists. yes he wasnt good enough for us, but he at least looked like a decent player. Antony offers nothing as a winger.
What's weird is that there are still people who thinks he is very talented and think he offers us something special on that right wing. How hard is to admit you were wrong and that he is nowhere near good enough?
Probably same people who find every excuse for our manager and our shite results. I mean, it was obvious after one month that we wasted money on him, he looked very one dimensional, and very untalented, it's funny how some people expected him to become much batter player based on nothing. Player who shoots that often and scores so little shouldn't be relied to play every week.
Signing and playing him every week should be sackable offence, IMO. If this transfer wasn't so early into his tenure, I would question Ten Hag's intentions. It's quite obvious Ten Hag should never ever be responsible for his transfers again because he simply has no idea how to pick good players on the market.
Probably same people who find every excuse for our manager and our shite results. I mean, it was obvious after one month that we wasted money on him, he looked very one dimensional, and very untalented, it's funny how some people expected him to become much batter player based on nothing. Player who shoots that often and scores so little shouldn't be relied to play every week.
Signing and playing him every week should be sackable offence, IMO. If this transfer wasn't so early into his tenure, I would question Ten Hag's intentions. It's quite obvious Ten Hag should never ever be responsible for his transfers again because he simply has no idea how to pick good players on the market.
He offers balance, or something. I agree actually, he offers shitness that balances out Rashford on the other side.
Oh yippee!
Wouldn't trust ETH with any more money. He
watched Antony day in day out at his old club and actually thought he would be a good player for us to be signed with big money.
watched Antony day in day out at his old club and actually thought he would be a good player for us to be signed with big money.
ETH needs his veto taken away for this massive blunder. Antony is ours worst signing up there with Sancho.
Still better than playing Bruno on the right wing. Which doesn't say much
I’ve despised him since that wankish behaviour against Charlton (I think) in the cup last season, where he did the pointless 360 thing. What a cnut. He’s got the most punchable face in world football.
How the hell anyone thought he was a good buy needs firing.
How the hell anyone thought he was a good buy needs firing.
I honestly wouldn't let Ten Hag spend another penny.
7 games this season, 0 goals, 0 assists, 2 yellow cards.
Well done Ten Hag, well done...
Well done Ten Hag, well done...
I've been a vocal supporter of ETH but if there is one signing that massively calls into question his judgement it's this one. A thoroughly unlikeable and absolutely bang average footballer. ETH needs to hold his hand up in this one and say he made a mistake.
How much did Villa pay for Diaby?
Would have preferred to keep Elanga who at least was rapid.
He could show them a thing or two about how to treat women...
He started by scoring goals and we thought we had the Brazilian Robben on our hands, fast forward 1 year and he become one of the worst players. Where have I seen this before?
Sadly a monstrous waste of money. We just don’t seem to be able to sign a good RW. James, Sancho, now Antony. Money and time down the drain
He is the best rw out of a list of bad rw. If the others are 3/10 right wingers he is a 4/10 winger.
Should have done that fidget spinner move in the last minute. Just what the game yesterday lacked to fully complete the utter shitshow we've all witnessed.
He has more bookings (7) then goal involvements (6) in the Premier League.
He is absolutely dogshit. Probably the worst winger to have ever played more then 50 games for us.... with his only competition for that title being another winger still at the club that we signed for an absurd amount of money.
I remember being called out last season when I said that I genuinely didn't understand one iota of this signing. He wasn't special at Ajax, he never showed the level that is required to excel in the Eredivisie, let alone the Premier League. I was criticized for a biased view because of being a Feyenoord fan, but everyone viewing the Eredivisie regularly knew this. And we paid 85 million pounds for a player that is bang average for Dutch league standards and straight out disappointing on Premier League levels.