Real Betis are desperate to raise money to buy Antony, who was loaned out of Manchester United last season. According to the Spanish newspaper "As", although Betis has no money, they are ready to return Antony through various means such as selling players and reuniting with coach Manuel Pellegrini and core Isco.

Antony has returned to Brazil and has been named in the squad for this month's international tournament by new coach Carlo Ancelotti. During his international training, he was in good hands with Cunha, who was confirmed to join Manchester United for £62.5 million, however, the pair may not have a chance to remain team-mates at the Red Devils as Antony is set to be sold.

Manchester United have set a price tag of €50 million for 25-year-old Antony, but potential buyers are believed to be able to negotiate a lower amount, with the final sale price likely to be less than €40 million. In particular, the Brazilian international's weekly salary of up to £200,000 is the biggest obstacle to transfer. However, if it is to join Betis, "Yuanshen" will agree to take a salary cut.

Western media stressed that Betis wants to "fight to the end" to bring in Antony, so they are carefully calculating the relevant figures in order to make a convincing offer to Manchester United. One option would be for Betis to pay a fee to buy a percentage of Anthony's ownership and agree to another loan agreement, with the option to buy it outright in 2026.

Antony's other suitors have also been approached by Manchester United. One of the rumours is that former Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag's Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen are also interested in competing for Antony's arrival. However, there is pure hype in this as the 55-year-old Dutchman had abandoned Antony long before Manchester United stepped down, so it is unlikely that he would want to bring the player who has put him under great pressure to Germany.

After Ten Hag confirmed his management of Bayer Leverkusen, a number of Manchester United players have been linked with the team, in addition to Antony, Garnacho, Hojlund and others, but none of them are very feasible. Antony, in particular, Ten Hag and his agent publicly declared this week that the 100 million euro acquisition of him was the club's choice for Manchester United, and Ten Hag as a coach had objected.

Ten Hag's agent, Keith Wirth, the founder of "SEG Football", has been criticized by Manchester United fans, especially Hojlund before he transferred from Atalanta to Manchester United for 72 million pounds, and he specifically fired his past agent and invested in SEG's banner, which made the outside world suspect that there was a shady scene of "receiving kickbacks".

Coupled with Ten Hag's tendency to sign players he knows well, Wirth is like a dark cloud, hanging over Old Trafford and causing all kinds of problems for Manchester United, and Antony's transfer is one of the biggest problems. However, Wirth insisted in Bart Nollers' book Liverpool and the Netherlands that Ten Hag had asked United to avoid signing Antony at that price.

Voss said: "Ten Hag and Wirth are not in favour of the transfer and they want to block the deal. But Manchester United want to push forward with talks with Ajax at all costs, as Arsenal are also interested in Antony. The stronger the competitor, the greater the risk. In the end, Manchester United paid Antony almost 100 million euros. Although Ten Hag did not support the transfer, he could not escape the impact of the deal throughout his tenure at Manchester United, as the player could never have been worth hundreds of millions.

Exactly who led the deal is unknown to outsiders. But the fact that neither Manchester United nor Ten Hag want to take responsibility speaks volumes about what a disaster Antony's transfer has been. Manchester United's top management naturally has an unshirkable responsibility for the introduction of Antony for 100 million euros.

But at that time, Ten Hag had the right to veto Manchester United's transfers, so "Kompasu" finally joined Manchester United, and the manager certainly did not have 100% opposition. People also turned to a passage that Ten Hag said in 2023: "I am a fighter, Antony is also a fighter, he is very confident. He's very brave and I'm confident he'll show something and he's the right player for us."