Manchester United winger Antony has taken former membership Ajax to court docket alleging he was unfairly fined wages within the build-up to his £86m switch.
The 24-year-old grew to become United’s third most costly signing ever – behind Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku – when he moved to Outdated Trafford in August 2022, following a prolonged transfer saga that noticed Ajax reject a number of bids from the 13-time Premier League winners.
Antony expressed his want to reunite with Erik ten Hag earlier than a deal had been agreed – he’d moved to United earlier in the summertime to succeed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as supervisor – and rejected the possibility to increase his Ajax contract.
Coaching classes have been missed as United negotiated a worth with Ajax, and Antony was unnoticed of the Amsterdam giants’ Eredivisie conflict with Sparta Rotterdam regardless of being match to play.
Dutch newspaper AD (via The Times) report that court docket proceedings are underway, with Antony alleging that Ajax’s choice to wonderful him on three separate events for being absent with out permission was “illegal”. The quantity Antony is looking for is claimed to be “a couple of hundred thousand euros”.
Antony’s transfer to United hasn’t labored out as deliberate, resulting in hypothesis that he could also be offloaded within the present January switch window.
A quick begin to his profession in England noticed Antony web 3 times in his first three Premier League video games, however he has scored simply twice within the 57 matches which have adopted. He has been on the periphary of United’s crew, each beneath Ten Hag, who was sacked earlier this season, and beneath Ruben Amorim, who was appointed because the membership’s first-ever head coach in November.
Antony is but to start out a Premier League sport this season, enjoying simply 84 minutes as a second half substitute on six events.
