You're just making shit up in your mind to suit your agenda. Antony was a United target before we signed Ten Hag, but after we signed Ten Hag then De Jong become the priority and all effort was directed towards signing him. The previous management team was literally incapable of performing more than a single task at a time, they couldn't even sell a player because they were so focused on signing De Jong, so even if Antony was priority target at the beginning of July, which there is no evidence to suggest he was, the club made the decision to focus on De Jong and we have to assume Ten Hag fully agreed.
Whatever our scouting team valued him at, it was irrelevant, Ajax valued him around 55 mil in the beginning of the transfer window, and we had no interest at that time, or our main interest was elsewhere. It was only when the club caved to outside pressure and loaned Greenwood did they then have to panic and find a replacement for him. It was at that point we went in for Antony, based on the club decision with Ten Hag approval, but Murtough and Arnold did the negotiating, that's how things work. Thinking Ten Hag is involved with discussions on player price in negotiations is akin to him putting himself in at CB when we have a spate of injuries. It's literally not his job, even if he wants it. But the club choosing to go into this transfer at the end of the window, once Ajax sold their whole team, is not on Ten Hag, it was a club decision.
If Antony was that important to Ten Hag, like 90 mil important, then we would have prioritized him over 60 mil De Jong who Barca was more than happy to sell at any point in the summer. The fact we signed Numerous players before we got to signing Antony, and it was clearly a last minute panic buy, prove this. At the time people attributed the panic purchase to a reaction to losing to Brighton and Brentford, but very likely it was a panic in reaction to having to replace a player whom they planned to use all summer long. If we didn't loan out Greenwood then where would Antony have played that season?
Who knows if Ten Hag is the right guy, unfortunately it's seeming less and less likely by the day, but the price of Antony is not a stick you can beat him with, nor do you need it, just talk about our football and quite chatting shit to try and build up your case against Ten Hag.
