{"id":23656,"date":"2022-06-21T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T07:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23656"},"modified":"2022-06-21T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T07:22:29","slug":"man-utd-officials-arrive-in-amsterdam-to-complete-40m-antony-transfer-and-first-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/21\/man-utd-officials-arrive-in-amsterdam-to-complete-40m-antony-transfer-and-first-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd officials arrive in Amsterdam to complete \u00a340m Antony transfer and first signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United transfer chiefs have reportedly flown into the Netherlands to complete the final stages of a move for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/ajax-fc\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" data-content-type=\"section-topic\">Ajax<\/a>\u00a0star Antony.<\/p>\n<p>The winger starred under\u00a0Erik ten Hag\u00a0as the Dutch giants\u00a0won the Eredivisie title for the second successive year\u00a0last season. He scored 12 goals and notched 10 assists from the right wing, a position that has become a problem for United over recent campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Antony&#8217;s performances appear to have convinced Ten Hag to bring him with him to Old Trafford as he looks to turn around United&#8217;s fortunes. The Red Devils endured a dreadful season last term, missing out on qualification for the\u00a0Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag has been charged with overhauling his squad to make it fit for challenging for silverware and the higher positions of the\u00a0Premier League. While a move for Frenkie de Jong was thought to be the priority, it appears that a deal for Antony has progressed more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>So much so, that\u00a0The Sun\u00a0report United officials have flown into Amsterdam to get the move for Antony &#8216;over the line&#8217;. The Red Devils are ready to pay \u00a340million to make the Brazilian the first signing of the Ten Hag era.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/incoming\/article27233555.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_GettyImages-1232250415.jpg\" alt=\"Antony has a close relationship with new United boss Erik ten Hag\" \/><\/p>\n<p>United&#8217;s new boss is said to be keen to see Antony start his rebuild of the fallen Premier League giants. The winger had a good relationship with Ten Hag after joining from Sao Paulo and hailed the Dutchman after he officially left Ajax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United transfer chiefs have reportedly flown into the Netherlands to complete the final stages of a move for\u00a0Ajax\u00a0star Antony. The winger starred under\u00a0Erik ten Hag\u00a0as the Dutch giants\u00a0won the Eredivisie title for the second successive year\u00a0last season. He scored 12 goals and notched 10 assists from the right wing, a position that has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[1351,1045,7273,1725,1911,9784,8256,2220,10339,1349,7274,5557,6361,11252,115,6831,286,170,267,5646,10599,9487,6788,5374],"class_list":["post-23656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-ajax","tag-amsterdam","tag-anthony","tag-brazilian","tag-champions-league","tag-charged","tag-chiefs","tag-de-jong","tag-dutch","tag-dutchman","tag-erik-teg","tag-erik-ten-hag","tag-frenkie-de-jong","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-missing","tag-netherlands","tag-old-trafford","tag-premier-league","tag-priority","tag-rebuild","tag-red-devils","tag-sao-paulo","tag-sun"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}