Antony | Here we go! €100mill, contract until June 2027, option 'til 2028.
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Erm no, I meant if we could buy him for that price then he would be a United player
My rationale is quite simple: Antony is being priced far in excess of what at least as I see as the value of the contribution he could make to United right now. As it stands right now, we've got a very decent RW in Sancho, who I rate above Antony in the first place, there is hope for Rashford at LW, Ronaldo is still a very decent CF (we'll see if he stays, but I think he will) and Martial is a decent backup CF and LW. And although my exuberance could be irrational, I'm all in on giving Garnacho a proper chance. I'm not sure about Amad or Pellistri giving us what we need at RW, but I wouldn't object to having either being on the first team. Antony would be an excellent acquisition for depth, but not at the inflated value we've seen in media reports.
Let's sort out Frenkie and get on with the new season.
Was quite obvious Antony was gonna stay for at least a year. Also a winter transfer will be highly unlikely, unless Ajax messes up big time and is not active in Europe anymore after new years eve.
Who knows next summer! Let’s first have a season of Brazilian magic on the right wing @Ajax
Who knows next summer! Let’s first have a season of Brazilian magic on the right wing @Ajax
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Totally agree on Olise. He should be our rw target for that price
seems like laporta got his hands on a bag of money somehow which makes financing FDJ possible somehow? So the FDJ-deals seems to get cancelled as well...
Curious if we get de Jong if we'd consider the likes of Eriksen and Bruno both starting with one on the right wing. Rashford and Martial are both horrible on the right, and we need some kind of backup for Sancho if things go wrong. I've not got a huge amount of faith in the younger players at the moment, although I've no idea if Garnacho can play on the right, if he can then perhaps he might be worth a shout as backup instead.
Dare I say it, could even consider putting Ronaldo on the right wing if Sancho is out Not sure how long it's been since he was out that end, and don't know if he'd be able to do it again, but as a backup I feel like he might be more useful than Elanga is.
We've got a solid enough first choice team, it's just the "What if Sancho gets injured" discussion we have to consider now.
For signing new players, I feel like putting a punt on a 20-30m valuation young player is a better option than spending even 70m on the likes of Antony when at the moment he wouldn't be starting ahead of Sancho. I guess he could start ahead of Rashford and we could have Sancho on the left...
He's overpriced for sure. However, I think Sancho has proven to be better from the left and a big goal threat there also. He's still good on the right obviously but less of a goal threat and becomes more of a playmaker. Antony can do both from the right, being left footed. I think the outcome I wanted was Sancho LW, Antony RW. There's more goals and excitement from out wide there. Plus we'd get away with a less prolific CF in Martial for the time being also, which is handy if Ronaldo does leave. Rashford LW, Martial CF & Sancho RW doesn't fill me with confidence at all and I think we'll struggle for goals. That's probably why the club are desperate for Ronaldo to stay.
The more I watch of him, the more I think he’s the wrong choice.
I was super impressed with him when I watched him for Brazil’s youth team. However, for Ajax, he’s just too lightweight for me. He needs to give and go to be effective. We need wide players who can beat their man because we don’t have a single one yet. Rashford doesn’t beat his man and Sancho is a give and go player, too.
City have dominated the league having wide players like Sterling and Sané. Liverpool with Mané and Salah. All players who can beat their man. That is a player we are sorely lacking.
I was super impressed with him when I watched him for Brazil’s youth team. However, for Ajax, he’s just too lightweight for me. He needs to give and go to be effective. We need wide players who can beat their man because we don’t have a single one yet. Rashford doesn’t beat his man and Sancho is a give and go player, too.
City have dominated the league having wide players like Sterling and Sané. Liverpool with Mané and Salah. All players who can beat their man. That is a player we are sorely lacking.
Next season I'd rather give Garnacho and possibly Amad minutes if Antony is too expensive. Garnacho looks to be two footed so I think he can adapt he's young enough.
Nah garnacho is a lw rf
My guess is that Olise would reject us right now, barring an insane wage increase, since I think he specifically chose Palace to develop into a proper Prem starter before moving again. If I recall correctly he chose Palace over Arsenal since he had a small release clause, and he was canny enough to get a 35M release clause which will allow him to leave Palace if he becomes a quality Prem starter.
I do like his game, though. Good crosser and technique and left-footers are hard to find.
Ronaldo doesn't have the legs left to play on the wing. His only possible position is striker, and even there it's arguable that he contributes too little to our overall teamplay.
There seems to be a lot of folks here who seem to remember Ronaldo circa 2007 and not the soon-to-be 38y.o Ronnie -- which I guess explains their confusion on his current abilities and possible contributions.
Its almost like pining for the ex-gf who dumped you for a richer guy. But then 20 years later, you over-romanticise the earlier version and not the one that has since spawned 8 kids since.
Doesn't take a rocket scientist...
This one could have been done if we hadnt dithered for so long after the transfer window opened.
How so?
His asking price was alot cheaper at the start of the window when they had not already sold half the team
I don't even think he's as good a dribbler as Sancho.
Watching Antony's touches against PSV he doesn't look like an 80m player, he would still be a risk at 60m.
Anything over 55m is bad business for this lad.
He was priced at 80m and all the players they sold were always going to leave or deemed replaceable except Martinez which is why United overpaid for him.
Can you substantially prove that or are you just spuriously stating that to push a narrative?
Mazraoui and Gravenberch were always leaving, Ajax were aware of this at the start of the window. It has been commonly stated by Ajax ITK’s (for what that is worth) that Antony was valued at €80 at the start of the window; also that Ajax were willing to let one of Alvarez/Martinez go but only if valuation met.
Antony’s asking price was never less than it is now, Ajax have every right to ask that fee, just like Brighton with Cucurella. Ajax are one of the best run clubs in Europe, they don’t sell players for cheaper at the start of a window, makes no sense. Only reason Gravenberch went cheaper is because he didn’t field the expected interest during the pandemic years and only had one year left on his contract this summer.
No evidence of that at all tbh
pre-season just finished with Antony joining training as one of the last players. Ajax needs some time to make a team out of quality players. That’s how it goes @Ajax. Though, Ajax was able to keep quite some key players, buy some quality improvements/replacements and start some very talented youngsters. Probably within a month or 2 we could form such an opinion.
As I said though, this was a poor match of his
I wouldn't buy the Antony of this match for 80m either.
A somewhat better match vs PSV of his would be the one in his first season
which contains flashes (including a couple dribbles) of a bit more quality.
Though this was the awful match in which Promes as nr. 10 killed or wasted every single attack.
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It irritates me that his name is still mentioned as an option occasionally on here, his name should never be mentioned ever again!
As far as I’m concerned, the No.11 is vacant and I‘m more than happy to give it to Antony if we can agree a deal now or next year.
He doesn't look bad in that video by any means.
He is a dangerous player, give him space and he punishes you. He has 2-3 shots on the match, scores 1, has some quite good passes. It was a final, so expect it to be a harder match than others.
Same. He should be counted out until such times (If ever) he’s cleared. Even then it would be extremely difficult
Most sources were quoting around 50-60M at the start of the window. Paul Hirst and Fabrizio are both tier 1, they dont make things up. Its obvious we lost our window of opportunity when Ajax sold a lot of players and saw other clubs demanding insane amount for players(Tchoumeni, Raphinha etc). Correct me if I'm wrong, but no one here was talking about a 80M fee at the start of the window.
All them quotes state we are in talks and also confirm he price is north of €55m. Which is exactly where we are at now.
Too much common sense mate.
I fully believe Romano and Hirst on this one as quoted the price tag from Ajax is more to cool of interest for a player they don't want to lose, but around half that price is what you get when player and agent push for a move. Also, it doesn't help buying clubs as the market for RW available this summer is not so big so around 50 mil is what satisfies both sides of the deal.
Terrible take. He's known to be excellent defensively and hard-working. Also, ball retention is often quite low for even the very best creative passers. Check Eriksen, De Bruyne and our own Bruno.
I should clarify that my post was more a dig at my lack of belief in our secondary options behind Sancho than it was praise for Ronaldo. I have no belief that Ronaldo would be a great option. I just think that he'd potentially be a better option than Chong and Elanga based on what I saw this pre-season. Probably was being a bit harsh on them, but yeah.
Please watch today's Ajax game and realize paying 80 million for this angry little cnut would be insane.
What price did he look like today
equal number pretending Ronaldo has suddenly turned into Bebe
Maybe a tenner? Just don't buy him
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