If you look at situations where he was great, you’d need to change a few things for him to work. At Ajax, he always had a right back who’d under/overlap, always had runners from midfield around him to put balls through to. United don’t have either, which results in Antony constantly looking for a pass backwards. He will go past players when those players are focused on him giving through balls into channels for a RB/midfielder to run into. Also, most attackers (rashford, Garnacho and Hojlund) won’t do touch and goes, which is another of his strong points.
part of these problems are based on tactics (the static front 6 you sometimes see is terrible for him), but also because there is a severe lack of quality around him. You can maybe compare Antony with someone like Dirk Kuyt… who needed others around him to function well in a team, but he’d be great in the right team. I think in this United team, Mount is another player like this. It’s madness that they spend 150 on 2 players who don’t fit in straight away, or fix big problems straight away..