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Originally Posted by devo22
United are close to getting Antony from Ajax for around €100m including add-ons.
it just amazes me that a club of this size can be run so poorly. Ajax wanted €80m when United were first interested in late June / early July, which was seen as too expensive by United (and I agree actually). But instead of either paying that or looking for an alternative, they dither around for weeks and then panic in late August, when Ajax has no interest in selling any more and can just crank up the price to an obscene amount that makes no sense whatsoever, knowing that United are desperate enough to go through with it. So United are paying up to €20m more for the pleasure of getting the player weeks later ... it's genuinely depressing and infuriating how this club operates.
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Is he actually worth these amounts? I haven’t really watched him, so that’s a genuine question, but it’s more money than a lot of signings over the past year or so.