Manchester United will send a player on loan if they find a team that can only cover Antony's weekly salary.
ESPN explained on the 19th (Korea time) that Manchester United has shown a completely different approach to the transfer market so far under a new owner named Jim Ratcliffe.
Under the Glazer family, Manchester United hesitated to release the player. It was because he didn't want to admit that he had to bear the loss and failed to recruit. However, after recruiting numerous big names under Ratcliffe, Manchester United is boldly trying to sell resources that the team does not need even if it loses.
This summer, I boldly cleared Donny van der Beek, Raphael Varane, Antony Masial, Mason Greenwood, Willie Cambwalla, Alvaro Fernandez, etc. Unlike in the past, he succeeded in quickly recruiting Joshua Girksey and Lenny Yoro without dragging his feet in recruiting players.
While Manchester United still want to recruit players, the release has also become important. ESPN said that `Harry Maguire, Viktor Lindelof, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Scott McTominay, Christian Eriksen and Casemiro could leave the team if they get an appropriate offer this summer,' adding that `Antoni could also leave on loan if a club now appears to cover around 70,000 pounds (about 126 million won) a week.'
Antony was a player who strongly asked the club to sign him after Erik ten-Hach took over at Manchester United. Ajax didn't want to sell Antony, but under Ten Hach's demands, Manchester United spent as much as 80 million pounds (about 143.7 billion won) to bring him in. In other words, Ajax also brought the winger, who failed to bomb the Dutch league, to the second place in the club's history.
As expected, Antony was the wrong recruit. He only scored eight goals and three assists in 44 games in his first season, failing to show any performance at Manchester United. The problem was the 2023-2024 season. At the beginning of the season, Antony was unable to concentrate on the game at all due to the controversy over his privacy of assaulting his girlfriend.
Coach Ten Hach continued to show trust, but it was embarrassing that Antony's skills were the main players of Manchester United. The player who invested more than 140 billion won and brought in scored his first league goal in the 35th round of the league. Antony finished the season with a disastrous record of three goals and two assists in 38 games.
Even if I tried to sell Antony now, no club would show up to buy. Antony also has a weekly salary of 200,000 pounds (about 360 million won). In response, Manchester United is looking for a club that can preserve part of its weekly salary.
Still, it is questionable whether a club that wants to recruit Antony, who is terribly sluggish in Manchester United, on loan will easily appear. The transfer market has opened, but the club that wants Antony has yet to be mentioned as a transfer. Tenhach's excessive greed is expected to cause great damage to Manchester United.
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