At this stage you just have to laugh at what a bad signing he’s been.
Wing back is the final roll of the dice for him here
Wing back is the final roll of the dice for him here
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 5
- Goals
- 1
- Assists
- 0
- Yellow cards
- 0
If Amorim plays him there is no hope.
‘I fear the man that’s practiced two moves three hundred times each, four more moves a fifty times each, and ten moves twenty times each’ Master Kong
That sliding tap in was vs Forest with his left foot:
ah, maybe its not this one then. Im sure he got a scrappy one like this but could be wrong
As a sliding right footed Antony tap-in connoisseur myself, maybe you're thinking of Everton at home in the cup?
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I wouldn't say he's incapable of anything other than tap-ins with his weaker foot, as I remember him having the confidence to put in a decent right-footed cross vs Liverpool almost immediately after he scored that goal. It likely comes down to stubbornness/lack of confidence. Hopefully Amorim can coach him into being a slightly less predictable footballer.
No wonder Klopp tried to replace Salah with Antony in 2022 summer.There's the beauty
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He hasnt really been a bad signing, people who say this are only looking at the fee we paid which was much higher than it should have been but isnt his fault.
Without Antony we wouldnt have won the FA Cup last season
What are examples of bad signings to you?
5 goals and 3 assists in the league in two seasons - this isn’t a good signing in any way shape or form.
That’s before you get to the ludicrous fee.
Frankly, he has great potential to be a wing back. He is hard working, fast and can defend. He needs to improve on attacking side of the game but he is good enough in term of attacking abilities as a wing back. Hope Amorim can transformed him. Otherwise, 80M down the drain.
Could well be bollocks
We always hear about Liverpool being interested in Mount, or City wanting Maguire before we signed him but funnily enough they never made firm moves for either. Its possible they were interested but would they have paid anything like the fees we paid
Is this a joke?
Only if a left wing back. You simply can’t play a RWB with a zero right foot ability, as RWB should be making passes and crosses into the box often
I’m scared to death of the thought of him as a wing back. With how it’s gone for him here, you just know he’s going to give away a crucial penalty while trying to defend in the box.
It's unlikely to happen because Dalot or Mazraoui will play there before he gets a chance to. Shaw is back to fitness and Malacia is also back in training.
If he's involved in this role against Ipswich I think it will only be because he's had more days training than the players returning from the international break
Ah if he hasn't been a bad signing, there has never been a bad signing ever
I don't see it with Antony under Amorim, not because he lacks technical and physical capacity for performing the wing-back role, but because I haven't seen enough consistency of effort and temperament to succeed. I hope he can prove me wrong and he can work well under new management, be humble, be coachable, but given what we've seen from Antony since his arrival under a manager that had trust in him, I'm not holding my breath.
I've seen effort for sure, it's one of the few things I like about Antony. The guy can graft. Whether he's too arrogant to accept playing wingback and having fulltime defensive responsibilities is another question. It's the only way to salvage his United career.