Manchester United face a dilemma over signing Brazil worldwide Antony as a consequence of Lisandro Martinez’s arrival at Previous Trafford, in accordance with Tim Vickery.
Antony is believed to have agreed private phrases with United and bought followers excited when he was noticed watching their win over Liverpool on Monday.
However United’s negotiations with Ajax over the 22-year-old have proved tough, with the Eredivisie champions holding out for a club-record sale.
Ajax are standing agency on their €100m (£84.5m) valuation – a determine which might make Antony the second-most costly signing in United’s historical past – and the Brazilian is pleading with the Dutch membership’s hierarchy to discover a compromise.
South American soccer knowledgeable Vickery has defined that United’s determination to signal Argentina worldwide Martinez for £56.7m has difficult a possible deal for Antony.
‘The issue they have is a monetary one,’ Vickery advised Sky Sports activities. ‘The benchmark is that they’ve already gone to Ajax and brought Lisandro Martinez, and paid some huge cash for him.
‘Now, Antony is a youthful participant, a extra glamorous participant, so you possibly can hardly return to Ajax and say, ‘We purchased Lisandro Martinez for £60m, can now we have Antony for much less?’
‘That’s not going to occur. So, if United are going to get him, they’re going to need to spend some huge cash on him.
‘In that nice custom of wing play that Previous Trafford has, you possibly can actually think about the followers loving what Antony can provide as a result of the expertise is there and [Erik] ten Hag has finished very well to develop it.’
Vickery feels that Antony improved drastically beneath Erik ten Hag at Ajax and he could be signing for United if the pair are to be reunited in Manchester.
‘As quickly as Erik Ten Hag went to Previous Trafford, I believed, ‘he’s going to take Antony with him’, as a result of Ten Hag has finished such a beautiful job growing this participant,’ he added.
‘When he went to Ajax, he was proficient however he was very uncooked. He performed for Brazil at U23 degree, which is an enormous deal right here, to qualify for the Olympics.
‘They’d the very important sport, the final sport of the marketing campaign, simply earlier than the pandemic at the beginning of 2020. They needed to beat Argentina.
‘He had been first selection all through the marketing campaign and for the primary sport they dropped him. Why? As a result of he was enjoying winger, left footed, excessive proper and each time he was slowing them down.
‘He was choosing up the ball and reducing again in onto his stronger proper foot and he would take away the momentum of the assaults. You have been pondering at this level: uncooked.
‘However Ten Hag has bought him and has developed him into a fast little winger who can play on both flank, whose decision-making is drastically improved and who can even work again and put in a little bit of a shift.
‘So, as quickly as Ten Hag went there, I believed, properly, Antony is his man.’
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