The character to stick to the game plan when the control was in Arsenal’s favour is something to be admired. Doubt many (if any) saw Utd getting a result after the equaliser.
Arsenal were good, but they need to shake their reputation of not handling the pressure.
Even just having a wide receiver who is facing inside the pitch and can play first time on their left foot is a positive. Then there’s a little extras like his directness, potential speed and aggression. He’ll do good here, and only get better.
I think the main positives of Antony is simply having a goal threat on the right hand side. Not many teams have that threat, and left backs across the league have less defensive responsibility.
Antony holding the width on the right touchline might be a nice dynamic for Bruno. Relieves the creative burden from him on the right hand side, and may even open up that channel between the CB and FB for Bruno to make penetrating underlapping runs.
Seems a decent crosser too.
That being said I don’t see it happening really. Utd have just spent €170m on Casemiro and Antony, and the finances don’t really seem in their favour at all.
Napoli are a really hard team to buy from if they don’t want to sell.
You’d probably say next year a CF, CM, GK and RB should be bought.
The targets for those positions consist of probably retrying for Frenkie, and then when you move to the CF target it’s hard to look past Osimhen.
So if there’s any chance of this loan swap now, you must take it.
€100m for Antony will never sit right. It better be a game-changing signing. Almost goes against Ten Hag because everybody knows that it’s his target, so Antony flopping looks bad on Erik.
Another CM and more forwards are needed. Nothing nobody doesn’t know already though. Maybe even a RB wouldn’t go a miss, but wouldn’t put it higher in the list of priorities.