Antony (out) | LOAN to Real Betis

Such a shame. After his debut against Arsenal there were high hopes of his potential. Has to go down as the worst signing in Premier league history and we have idiots ten Hag and Murtough to thank for it.
 
Should put Hawaiian beach shirt and sunglasses along with that tiger style celebration for presentation pic. A nice, cosy, 5 month holiday in Seville for him.
 
AjaxCunian said:
To me, 10 goals/10 assists is a (very) good output for a winger in a full season (about 38 games). There are wide forwards who do more than that and that's great.

He played with Berghuis, Tadic and Haller who also shared in the goalscoring load, his output really isn't the stick to beat him with even if there were other concerns.
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His output was still poor adjusted for team and league. And it was highlighted when we signed him that also his underlying stats were also average at best, there wasn't really any metric he performed high in. Which is why the scouting team rated him at 25m max. Atleast with Sancho it was different stats-wise.
 
Giggsy13 said:
Such a shame. After his debut against Arsenal there were high hopes of his potential. Has to go down as the worst signing in Premier league history and we have idiots ten Hag and Murtough to thank for it.
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I was bit worried after that debut he had vs Arsenal. Well taken goal but looked like he couldn't go past his opponent once and struggled. It was a decent debut even if you don't count the goal but 2,5 years later he hasn't progressed really.

Signing Antony, losing 7-0, playing crazy tactics in 23/24... Ten Hag really deserved that sack.
 
Craig Ward said:
He was highly regarded as one of the most exciting wingers at the time. We bought potential, not the finished article.

We got it wrong clearly but at the time going for Anthony made a lot of sense. Not at the price or wages we eventually paid but the player was the right kind of fit at the time.
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A slow, one footed winger who can't beat his man was the right fit? We got it completely and utterly wrong with him there is no debating it.
 
BorisManUtd said:
I was bit worried after that debut he had vs Arsenal. Well taken goal but looked like he couldn't go past his opponent once and struggled. It was a decent debut even if you don't count the goal but 2,5 years later he hasn't progressed really.

Signing Antony, losing 7-0, playing crazy tactics in 23/24... Ten Hag really deserved that sack.
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Trophies aside, ten Hag was disastrous. We’ll be digging ourselves out of this hole for more than a few years to come.
 
Aretak said:
I don't find it particularly surprising to be honest. All that article really says is that Murtough was utterly inept, Ten Hag was an exceptionally poor judge of talent and the Glazers were asleep at the wheel. I could have told you all that. It still sucks of course.
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Ajax set a "feck off, we're not selling" price and the geniuses at united thought "wow he must be a Messi regen or something let's up the price to 85m"
And then gave the player who was on €20k a week a 200k a week contract. So in total he will cost us something like €130m

I think it's the world transfer in the history of football, not just the premier league.
 
MiceOnMeth said:
Ajax set a "feck off, we're not selling" price and the geniuses at united thought "wow he must be a Messi regen or something let's up the price to 85m"
And then gave the player who was on €20k a week a 200k a week contract. So in total he will cost us something like €130m

I think it's the world transfer in the history of football, not just the premier league.
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They probably saw United's board as biggest idiots in football.

 
MiceOnMeth said:
Ajax set a "feck off, we're not selling" price and the geniuses at united thought "wow he must be a Messi regen or something let's up the price to 85m"
And then gave the player who was on €20k a week a 200k a week contract. So in total he will cost us something like €130m

I think it's the world transfer in the history of football, not just the premier league.
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Those are the same people you invite first to your weekly poker game. I bet they get cleaned out every week and still can’t figure out why.
 
BorisManUtd said:
What's even more frustrating is (as incompetent as we are) this transfer would've never happened if Greenwood wasn't a piece of shite.
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Yeah I said it at the time that season, but losing a 100m asset (along with being a T5 teenager in the world potential wise) for basically nothing was a huge blow to that 22/23 squad. Then it was compounded by the horrid Ten Hag transfers where now we have a black hole of transfer fees in the squad that we will never get anything out of and a team that's bottom of the league.
 
MiceOnMeth said:
A slow, one footed winger who can't beat his man was the right fit? We got it completely and utterly wrong with him there is no debating it.
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Did you even read the words i wrote? I said it;s worked out wrong, but AT THE TIME it made sense
 
Big Ben Foster said:
That article should put an end to the delusion that ETH has no blame for the transfer fee we paid. Even after the €80m offer was rejected, he continued to put pressure on the hierarchy to make the deal happen and insisted Antony was critical to his plan.
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Which was the point where we probably should have started questioning Ten Hag's plan a bit more.
 
stevoc said:
Which was the point where we probably should have started questioning Ten Hag's plan a bit more.
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Unfortunately that was very early in his tenure, so most of the fanbase was still in the "anybody questioning the manager isn't a real fan" phase.
 
USREDEVIL said:
Mount.
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yeah i mean clearly for united that was a worse signing. Out of contract soon, plays a position that bruno plays in which means gametime limited, and has made phil jones look like mr dependable. At least antony played a position we had a huge need for and at least was available most the time.
 
SilentWitness said:
Worst signing in PL history for me.
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How is he? He’s scored several absolute worldies for us. Scored in his first 3 PL games, the winner against Barca, and scored against Liverpool to take it to ET.

Even at United we’ve had Falcao, Mount and others who are attacking players who did genuinely next to nothing. Anthony is quite clearly not good enough but he still did something. Is it the £80m price tag that makes you say that? Because I would say Mount for £55m who has scored 1 single goal is a considerably worse signing.
 
SilentWitness said:
Worst signing in PL history for me.
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No for me that has to be Alexis Sanchez. Sanchez cost one Mkhitaryan and 14 million a year after tax in wages according to the BBC. That's a gross wage of just over 26,000,000 on a four and a half year contract, he scored 3 league goals and got 6 assists! He played for a year and a half and then went on loan to Inter Milan with United still paying a huge part of his wages. At the end of that season he moved permanently to Inter with the BBC reporting:

there is an arrangement where everyone involved has contributed to the £40m that Sanchez had been due in wages over the remaining two years of his contract. United will have given Sanchez his pay-off and the player has taken a pay cut.
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Without doing all the maths I reckon Sanchez cost United a lot more and delivered far less.
 
Offside said:
How is he? He’s scored several absolute worldies for us. Scored in his first 3 PL games, the winner against Barca, and scored against Liverpool to take it to ET.

Even at United we’ve had Falcao, Mount and others who are attacking players who did genuinely next to nothing. Anthony is quite clearly not good enough but he still did something. Is it the £80m price tag that makes you say that? Because I would say Mount for £55m who has scored 1 single goal is a considerably worse signing.
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How much the fanbase hate him, how much Ajax fans were laughing at the fee, how big the fee was in general.
The Boy said:
No for me that has to be Alexis Sanchez. Sanchez cost one Mkhitaryan and 14 million a year after tax in wages according to the BBC. That's a gross wage of just over 26,000,000 on a four and a half year contract, he scored 3 league goals and got 6 assists! He played for a year and a half and then went on loan to Inter Milan with United still paying a huge part of his wages. At the end of that season he moved permanently to Inter with the BBC reporting:



Without doing all the maths I reckon Sanchez cost United a lot more and delivered far less.
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Like with Mount, the club that sold them were sad to let them go (in terms of the fans). I understand that some people would say that's even worse then if they were supposed to be great and have flopped so hard, but there was nothing about Antony that anyone believed was an 85m player. It was a stupid signing from beginning to end. Antony only has 3 more overall goal contributions than Sanchez in double the games.

Opinions eh.
 
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Not a single players since Bebe (who never actually played professional football before we signed him) has looked so lost on a pitch like Antony. Just tragicomical to watch him run and try to play football. His biggest asset was to dribble and beat his defender, but the only headlines since joining us was him beating women.

Hope he finds some kind of form in Seville so that we can sell him to Marseille.
 
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