Ajax are very unlikely to try and bring Anthony back to the club on loan from Manchester United, with Wolverhampton Wanderers a more feasible destination for the Brazilian.
That’s according to Bart Sanders, host of Ajax podcast Pantelic Podcast, whose comments have been relayed by FC Update.
Antony has been nothing short of a disaster since joining Manchester United in a €95m deal from Ajax in August 2022.
He’s managed just 12 goals and five assists in 86 games to date and now finds himself down the pecking order at the club behind the likes of Amad Diallo and Alejandro Garnacho.
Reports in England have indicated that Manchester United are now ready to cut their losses on the 24-year-old and sanction a loan deal in January in the hope of selling him next summer.
Ajax were immediately brought into the mix for him given how popular he was at the Dutch club and his record of 24 goals and 22 assists in 82 games for them before his move to Manchester United.
Given the finances involved that would likely be a complicated deal and Sanders can’t see it ever happening. Instead, he believes Antony is far more likely to end up at a club like Wolves.
“The more serious media have said something about it, but Antony returns to Ajax on loan… I don’t see it happening,” he said.
“Manchester United will never do this from a loss of face perspective. As a club, you look like a complete idiot if you sign someone for a hundred million euros and two years later you rent him back to his old club. That is a loss of face of the highest order, isn’t it?!
“He could easily go to FC Porto, Benfica, Wolves… There are enough other teams. Antony did very poorly at Manchester United, of course, but he also showed himself in the year that Ajax won six group matches in the Champions League.
“At Sporting Portugal, they are still sweating about it, so there will be clubs that want to rent him.”
