Newcastle ‘wouldn’t touch’ Man Utd flop despite surprise transfer link

Newcastle United ‘wouldn’t touch’ Manchester United flop Antony contempt being linked with a astonishment determination for the Brazilian.

That is the sentiment of erstwhile England goalkeeper Paul Robinson, who has described Antony arsenic ‘lightweight’ and questioned whether helium volition ever travel bully successful the Premier League.

Manchester United spent much than £80m to motion Antony from Ajax successful 2022 but the 24-year-old has endured a dismal spell astatine Old Trafford, scoring conscionable 5 league goals crossed his archetypal 2 seasons.

Antony is yet to commencement a Premier League crippled this word and his reduced relation successful the squad led to speculation helium could permission United during the summertime transportation window.

While that failed to materalise – with Erik 10 Hag reportedly blocking him from leaving connected indebtedness connected deadline day – Antony volition apt proceed to beryllium linked with a determination distant from United up of the January transportation window.

One outlet adjacent suggested Newcastle would see a astonishment determination for Antony during the wintertime window, though ex-Premier League prima Robinson has rubbished that rumour.

‘Antony, no, I don’t deliberation anybody astatine Newcastle would interaction him,’ the erstwhile Tottenham, Blackburn, Leeds, Burnley and England goalkeeper told Football Insider.

‘Listen, there’s a bully subordinate there, but he’s excessively lightweight for the Premier League, helium takes excessively overmuch clip connected the shot and it’s a league that’s excessively speedy for him.

‘When you look astatine different leagues, the Dutch league that helium stood retired successful oregon possibly the Spanish league La Liga oregon Ligue 1 [they are] possibly much suited to a subordinate similar him.

‘But you look astatine the mode that he’s struggled astatine Manchester United, Newcastle volition look astatine themselves connected a level with Manchester United.

‘They’re competing for the aforesaid things, European football, they some privation to beryllium successful the apical four, that’s the benignant of level that they’re connected now.

‘The Newcastle fans nor the committee volition look astatine Anthony and go, “That’s going to amended america successful immoderate way”.’

Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce were credited with involvement successful Antony earlier this month but the Brazil planetary is said to beryllium focused connected reviving his vocation astatine Manchester United.

Whether helium gets the accidental to bash conscionable that remains to beryllium seen, however, with Old Trafford fable Rio Ferdinand precocious claiming his erstwhile nine would ‘love’ to get Antony disconnected their books.

‘The players they’ve bought this summer, the happening I similar astir it is determination volition inactive beryllium a marketplace for them adjacent if they don’t enactment out,’ Ferdinand said successful notation to the likes of summertime signings Leny Yoro, Joshua Zirkzee and Manuel Ugarte.

‘The contented Man United person had earlier is they’ve bought immoderate large names but is determination a marketplace if those deals don’t spell right? Can they recoup the wealth they’ve spent? 

‘I deliberation it’s difficult. There’s players that United would person loved to person got escaped of earlier but due to the fact that their wages and the fees were truthful precocious it’s precise hard to recoup the money. 

‘Antony is simply a large example. Are Man United going to get anyplace adjacent £80m for him if helium goes backmost successful the marketplace present they’ve got 4 wingers up of him? I don’t deliberation so. 

‘These ones that person travel successful now, if they don’t spell to plan, the adjacent marketplace for them they could inactive get a decent magnitude of money.’

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