{"id":616790,"date":"2022-08-26T06:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=616790"},"modified":"2022-08-26T06:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:03:55","slug":"antony-manchester-united-asks-club-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/26\/antony-manchester-united-asks-club-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a385 Million Manchester United Target Asks Club to Let Him Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest twist in the Antony saga has emerged as the player has reportedly asked Ajax to cooperate with his desire to make a move to England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeVerweij\/status\/1562534340218671116\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Verweij<\/a> is reporting that &#8220;Antony has officially asked Ajax to cooperate in a transfer to MUFC&#8221;. According to a report from Laurie Whitehall of <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3534992\/2022\/08\/24\/manchester-united-new-antony-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Athletic<\/a>, this transfer could end up costing the Red Devils \u00a385 million as a compromise.<\/p>\n<h2>Antony Asks Ajax to Cooperate With Manchester United for a Transfer<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"nl\" dir=\"ltr\">NIEUWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Antony?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Antony<\/a> heeft <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ajax?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Ajax<\/a> officieel verzocht mee te werken aan een transfer naar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MUFC<\/a> en zijn management was al op huizenjacht.<br \/>\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f Antony has officially asked Ajax to cooperate in a transfer to MUFC and his management were already watching houses<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LjE5Q43lGx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/LjE5Q43lGx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Verweij (@MikeVerweij) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeVerweij\/status\/1562534340218671116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Erik ten Hag Reunion<\/h3>\n<p>A common theme of this transfer window has been Erik ten Hag getting linked with former players. While some he has signed, like <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/24\/lisandro-martinez-the-butcher\/\" target=\"_self\">Lisandro Martinez<\/a>, and others have not materialised, looking squarely at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/08\/frenkie-de-jong-future-xavi-barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Frenkie de Jong<\/a>, it has been a common story throughout the window.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/22\/manchester-united-chelsea-500-million-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United and Chelsea to Lead \u00a3500 Million Transfer Binge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Brazilian would be another signing that the Dutch manager is already familiar with, having played for Eredivisie champions for two seasons.<\/p>\n<h3>A Threatening Forward Presence<\/h3>\n<p>One thing that characterises the \u00a385 million man is his attacking prowess. It was first showcased for Sao Paolo in Brazil where he scored six times in 45 appearances in the 2019 season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/22\/manchester-united-target-asmir-begovic\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Eye Premier League Goalkeeper as Backup to David de Gea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His quality caught the sights of those at Ajax and he was signed for just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/51603039\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a313 million<\/a> in 2020. During his time playing in Holland, he continued to showcase the attacking flair that he is now known for, netting 11 times and 12 times in the 2020\/21 and 21\/22 campaigns respectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 &#8211; Another meeting between Antony &amp; Ajax will take place at 11.00am today. [via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeVerweij?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MikeVerweij<\/a>] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TqmgkoxxW8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/TqmgkoxxW8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blessed\uea00 (@BlessedUtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlessedUtd\/status\/1563088319306956801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s impressive about that second tally is he scored one more goal despite making 13 fewer appearances than the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Despite only playing three games so far in the 22\/23 season he has continued his impressive goalscoring exploits with two strikes to his name in those three appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest twist in the Antony saga has emerged as the player has reportedly asked Ajax to cooperate with his desire to make a move to England. Mike Verweij is reporting that &#8220;Antony has officially asked Ajax to cooperate in a transfer to MUFC&#8221;. According to a report from Laurie Whitehall of The Athletic, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":616843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7188,8426,8425,18,3],"tags":[9029,4989],"class_list":["post-616790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-ajax","category-eredivisie","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-antony","tag-manchester-united-transfers"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}