Manchester United are interested in acquiring the services of Ajax winger Antony and journalist Pedro Almeida has indicated that the transfer is on its way towards completion.
With Erik ten Hag at the helm at Old Trafford, the newly-appointed head coach wants to bolster his squad by luring his former player Antony. Although no official bid has been made yet to Ajax, Pedro Almeida claims that "the transfer is 90% complete".
According to Almeida, Manchester United are "seriously pushing" Ajax to sign the 22-year-old attacker, who has already informed the Eredivisie club that his preferred destination is Manchester.
Since joining Ajax from Sao Paulo in 2020, Antony has grown by leaps and bounds under the tutelage of the 52-year-old ten Hag. He made 33 appearances last season and registered 12 goals and 10 assists across all competitions.
The Brazilian's breakthrough form led to him receiving an international call-up and since then, he has earned nine caps.
Earlier, the Red Devils were in the race to sign Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunez, but the player joined Liverpool in a deal worth up to £85 million on Tuesday. The 20-time league winners will now hope to rope in Antony before the end of the summer transfer window.
Meanwhile, as per a report by The Sun, Antony has met with his agent and entourage in Amsterdam after Manchester United reportedly launched a £38.4 million bid.
If the deal does go through, the Ajax winger's arrival at the Premier League club will add quality and competition to their ranks. United already have three quality wide men in Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Elanga.
Manchester United keen on signing a midfielder
With club-record signing Paul Pogba, Nemanja Matic and Juan Mata already out of the door, Manchester United are in dire need of midfield reinforcements. Hence, Erik ten Hag has prioritised the signing of Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong, who has reportedly agreed to make a move to Old Trafford.
If the move for De Jong fails to gain traction, the Red Devils are in contention to sign Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder Ruben Neves to strengthen their midfield depth.
United finished sixth in the Premier League table in the 2021/22 season with 58 points and ended the season trophyless. The Red Devils will look to bounce back from what was one of their worst seasons since the formation of the Premier League in 1992.
bocbdnsuyz
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we are tired of suspicion
Suscilsuz
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That's Manchester United for you. "No offer, no bid, no contact with club, no contact with agent". BUT "monitoring the player, interested, watching, scouting, keen to sign him ..."
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That's exactly what Manchester united is good at doing, and believe me the transfer window will close and they end up signing nobody, I'm sick and tired of hearing their news of monitoring, expecting, hoping and wishing to sign this and this player and at the end they won't sign any.
rotcdlnrsz
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what is man United management are doing that others club are buying players and they keep on saying this and that . infact we are tayerd story
Unitedforlife6
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Just waiting for the official
tenacemnz
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No need to trust this such of news...
RKachacha
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That's Manchester United for you. "No offer, no bid, no contact with club, no contact with agent". BUT "monitoring the player, interested, watching, scouting, keen to sign him ..."
Thecloud
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Transfer to Manchester United be like am on my way I just want to know if you doing better
Zodailmotz
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make it happen we are tired of this every time ...i just dont know how poor we became we cannot even compete with tottham or aston villa
stimmingjohnny
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it's time we stick to what we have no players wants to join us now so let's go for a fight for the budge
Very realistic
Nicciopu
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it's time we stick to what we have no players wants to join us now so let's go for a fight for the budge
fizzbizzie
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We are bringing in another winger when we should be pushing to sign midfielders.. Hope we don't get it wrong again as we did last season.. Our midfield is too average
Kaeceilt
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man u will never sign a player in this transfer window
Cjaysports
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convert to a striker then we are good
Yizbmopsuy
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man United board are not serious they are delaying to do good signing always rumours
Jabceklnpt
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Rueben nerves is better than De Jon he is proved and tested in EPL
gborne
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Today is 90% and 2weeks after it will be 95%.....so it be completed the coming month
socbklnz
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until my wife open for me will I believe Manchester United have signed a player in this transfer window 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤷🤷🤷
ogggg
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time wested