I have great faith that Antony will prove valuable to us. Just be patient with regard to him. He does have a lot of raw talent.
Is there a way to get more out of Antony?
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99th minute sub, I can feel the impact
Your talent shouldn't be raw when you're 24.
Yes, making pizza
Did that seem like a bit of a nasty move by ETH ??
I didn’t think there was any malice in that sub, but I almost wish there was because it would have been better than what the actual substitution was for: Erik throwing on an attacking player with no time left after they had gone down again instead of using it when he may have had a chance to make an impact on the game.
Most managers keep subs for later in the game. Pep sometimes doesn't use any of his.
Left back Antony here we go
Sell him for parts?
Lindelof injured himself, that's the only reason he was thrown on, TBH next game I think Antony might be our LB
I think him doing that round the world spin shite by our own corner flag might be the end of me.
Back to Brazil where we pay 70% of his wages.
That was Anderson. Different Brazilian.
Forget Ashworth, I think we need to employ whoever sold him to us, what a genius.
How much are spare kidneys and blood donations going for these days? Not a bad idea if we can recoup a little money.
Managers want to bring in "their" players when they sign for a club.
The record signing of Antony makes Moyes' signing of Fellaini look like a thrift-e-mart signing
The record signing of Antony makes Moyes' signing of Fellaini look like a thrift-e-mart signing
There is no debate. It's not up for discussion. Anyone disagreeing is just playing Devil's Advocate.
Worst signing of all time. He's one of the worst players we've ever had and cost nearly 100 mil.
Worst signing of all time. He's one of the worst players we've ever had and cost nearly 100 mil.
I wanted to add something facetious like "hopefully he makes a good cup of tea or something" but Ill try and be constructive. Maybe he could play as a left back? He'd be fast, he works hard, has a good left foot.
Probably wouldn't be much worse than lindelof.
Considering how garancho has looked better on the right and ten hag likely going to just stick to playing rashford as striker instead of trying false 9 and him not favouring amad that much, why not give Antony one more chance but on the left wing, we have little to lose at the moment in terms of attacking options
To be fair, felliani was a decent signing, he looked so horrible because he came right after SAFs great team got dismantled and expectation was high those days. The man tried and tried, you can't say the same about most of our current squad now even with expectations are all time low.
Id cut our losses and sell for £40m
What loon would pay £40 million for him?
If we played him on the left then it just encourages us to cross it all the time since he’s one footed and what’s the point in crossing when Rashfords gonna be the number 9 who hides away from headers. I’d give this a miss. Our game play is awful as it is without encouraging cross after cross after cross.
Left back. Being serious. He's tenacious and can keep the ball in tight touchline spaces.
What about low driven ground based crosses and cutbacks?
Have you seen Antony play? How many times does he try and cut it back. He just loves shooting on his left. And as I said before we’re having to play Rashford upfront who doesn’t bust a gut to get into the box so who’ll be getting on the end of the low crosses?
You would hope we would have more than just rashford in the box when we are attacking that close to the opposition box surely?
Right foot, like new: barely used
Ye sure but as the main ST. You need someone making them runs to the near post. Rashford isn’t that man. Similar to how Hojlund scored against wolves.
It takes away his only move though. Cutting in on his left.
Cant sell non-performing players on 200k/week. He’s here to stay
The title should be " Is there a way of getting Antony out?"
He has no experience defending, so would be caught out of position a lot, easily dribbled past and fail to properly align with the rest of the back line. He’s also quite slow, so would get roasted by wingers that are fast over longer distances.
It would be a disaster.
Tom somebody or other who likes them young.
mowing the pitch
Ashley Young and Valencia had zero back 4 experience before they were converted. Same as Jesus Navas and Lucas Vazquez.
I agree about the pace though. He’s finished then.
I really wanted us to sign him though, I have to be honest. Exciting at Ajax and Brazil.
The fee ruined it for me. Ridiculous amount of money for a young unproven player, which is on the club. ETH doesn’t agree fees or have any say in that part.
I also really don’t think all the drama around his ex gf has helped him either. (It’s still ongoing). Really bad luck on that part.
That's true, and I do think we saw at lot of examples of poor positioning and reading of the game as a result - at least in Valencia's case after he was converted. But he made up for it with great pace and physicality. They were also both very good professionals and had lots of Premier League experience before they were switched.