Erik ten Hag warns Man Utd star he must ‘earn the right to play’

Erik 10 Hag has warned Antony that helium indispensable ‘earn the right’ to commencement for Manchester United arsenic his torrid clip astatine Old Trafford continues.

The Brazil planetary joined United connected the proposal of Ten Hag implicit 2 years ago in a £85million determination from Ajax but has failed to unrecorded up to expectations.

The winger has scored conscionable 5 goals successful 2 afloat Premier League seasons and saw overmuch of past run interrupted with off-field issues relating to accusations of home violence.

Despite the departure of Jadon Sancho, Antony has inactive recovered himself starved for minutes, with the emergence of Amad Diallo reducing the 24-year-old to conscionable 1 infinitesimal of playing clip truthful acold this season.

That chiseled deficiency of lucifer enactment saw Antony go the taxable of precocious transportation interest, with Real Betis and Fenerbahce seeking to motion the winger connected a season-long loan.

The Brazilian, however, had no involvement successful a determination distant from Old Trafford, with United likewise unwilling to authorisation a move.

Tuesday could spot the winger afforded a uncommon starting berth arsenic the Red Devils instrumentality connected third-tier broadside Barnsley successful the Carabao Cup.

However, Ten Hag insisted that Antony indispensable gain the close to play and has plentifulness of enactment inactive to bash to unit himself backmost into the Dutchman’s regular first-team plans.

‘Tomorrow you volition spot what the line-up volition be,’ helium said astatine a property league connected Monday. ‘We person grooming each time and the players person to gain the close to play.

‘When the players bash the close things successful grooming erstwhile the cognition is bully and they amusement show successful grooming past they volition gain the close to play.’

Elsewhere, Ten Hag hinted helium would beryllium looking to rotate, particularly aft the injury scares endured by Lisandro Martinez and Noussair Mazraoui in Saturday’s 3-0 triumph implicit Southampton.

‘I anticipation I person galore players disposable and we tin marque a enactment from crippled to game,’ helium added.

‘Definitely, we person to rotate due to the fact that we person to screen truthful galore games and truthful it’s not lone astir a starting XI.’

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