He wasn't a Ten Hag purchase. The club fully intended to reintegrate Greenwood back into the team, then the public backlash took over and they decided to loan out Greenwood, this was mid Aug, so now they needed to replace a player that they had planned on using. This was also after we lost to Brighton and Brentford and the club was in full panic, talking about signing players like Arnautovic, it was a mad scramble after those games until Sept 1. The club had been scouting Antony, prior to Ten Hag joining, I know this because I was tracking the player long before we signed him and there was always United links, and when they needed a right sided wide player Antony was top of the list. They presented the list to Ten Hag, is he going to say no to an additional player, one he knows well? So they agreed to sign him, then Murtough and Arnold negotiated a price which had nothing to do with Ten Hag. Who are these people in 2020s thinking the coach of a football club is in the boardroom discussing player prices? What decade are you living in?
There is plenty reason to smackdown Ten Hag, Antony is not one, he was just another feck up by the Glazers/Arnold/Murtough.
EDIT*** (since I can't reply until tomorrow)
Roboc7 you are absolutely correct, I went back to the article about the interview Ten Hag gave and it I had my timelines all screwed up, I read the article in the summer. The essence is the same though, the club wanted to use Greenwood, couldn't, went to their scouting list, of which Antony was top, ran it by Ten Hag, obviously he's going to agree to using a player he knows, and the club signed him.