{"id":617385,"date":"2022-09-01T15:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=617385"},"modified":"2022-09-01T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:38:00","slug":"chelsea-liverpool-manchester-city-antony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/chelsea-liverpool-manchester-city-antony\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City All Wanted New \u00a385 Million Manchester United Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/chelsea-wonderkid-billy-gilmour-brighton-medical\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/liverpool-rejected-by-douglas-luiz\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/borussia-dortmund-defender-akanji-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> all wanted new <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/wan-bissaka-unhappy-with-transfer-saga\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> player Antony in the past, reports Marcus Alves of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/how-antony-went-little-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>United&#8217;s new superstar winger, who recently moved for a jaw-dropping <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/antony-completes-manchester-united-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">\u00a385 million<\/a> from Ajax, had opportunities to join Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool in the past but rejected them.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h2>Antony Rejected Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City in the Past<\/h2>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mufc<\/a> confirm signing of Antony. Five-year contract plus option of an additional year. United have now invested \u00a31.415bn in signings since 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aHMY5LMaiG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/aHMY5LMaiG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Samuel Luckhurst (@samuelluckhurst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samuelluckhurst\/status\/1565255776767283203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<h3>Why He Picked United Over Last Season\u2019s Top Three<\/h3>\r\n<p>Manchester City came knocking for the Brazilian in 2019 with an offer of \u00a317 million that included a season on loan at Sporting CP, but Antony was not ready to move halfway across the world and chose to extend his contract with then club Sao Paulo.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/30\/manchester-united-complete-antony-signing\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United \u2018Reach Agreement\u2019 to Sign Classy Player Fans Are Already Excited About<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Chelsea were next to make a firm approach, with their former director Marina Granovskaia making a personal promise to the player to take him to Stamford Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Liverpool also extensively scouted the winger and held conversations with his staff. In 2019, the Brazilian had scored in three finals for Sao Paulo and ended up moving to Ajax for \u00a316 million the following summer.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h3>Why the Brazilian Won\u2019t Be Phased by the Pricetag<\/h3>\r\n<p>Manchester United&#8217;s new star grew up in a place nicknamed &#8216;Inferninho&#8217; or &#8216;Little Hell&#8217; in the Brazilian favelas in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/mancity-chelsea-liverpool-antony-manutd-27886985\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Osasco<\/a>, an industrial suburb in Sao Paulo that also homed fellow Premier League stars Ederson and Bruno Guimaraes. Crime was on his doorstep. Tattooed on his arm is: &#8220;He who comes from there knows what I went through.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>Regardless, he was described as a humble boy and very clever by his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/how-antony-went-little-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earliest mentors at Sao Paulo.\u00a0<\/a> When he graduated to the senior team, he bought his family a house in a safer neighbourhood, at only 18. He also became a father at 19 to his son, Lorenzo. He has grown up a lot faster than his age would suggest, and fear will not be an issue for the Brazilian.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City all wanted new Manchester United player Antony in the past, reports Marcus Alves of The Telegraph. United&#8217;s new superstar winger, who recently moved for a jaw-dropping \u00a385 million from Ajax, had opportunities to join Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool in the past but rejected them.\u00a0 Antony Rejected Chelsea, Liverpool and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":617421,"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":[7188,11,16,17,18,3],"tags":[9029,1407,4319,6610,4989],"class_list":["post-617385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-chelsea","category-liverpool","category-manchester-city","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-antony","tag-chelsea-transfers","tag-liverpool-transfers","tag-manchester-city-transfers","tag-manchester-united-transfers"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617385","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\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}