Antony’s agent reveals Man Utd flop’s true feelings about Ruben Amorim since his arrival at Old Trafford

Antony’s agent reveals Man Utd flop’s true feelings about Ruben Amorim since his arrival at Old Trafford

Antony’s agent maintains the winger’s future at Manchester United’remains an open narrative’ and that his client has nothing but’respect’ for head coach Ruben Amorim.

The forward has so far failed to live up to his eye-watering £82 million price tag during a breathtakingly poor two-and-a-half year spell with the Red Devils.

The 24-year-old Brazil international has found the back of the goal in each of his previous two appearances for Betis and will seek to maintain his scoring spree at home against Real Sociedad in La Liga this weekend.

Many had already written off Antony’s United career due to his difficulties in recent seasons, with Gary Neville recently naming the forward as one of the club’s worst-ever signings.

But according to Antony’s representative Junior Pedroso, Antony himself remains hopeful of turning his fortunes around under Amorim at the Theatre of Dreams

‘Saudi Arabian and Premier League clubs wanted him [in January] but Real Betis was the best solution, he’s so happy there,’ Pedroso told Fabrizio Romano.

‘There’s no buy option and he respects Amorim a lot.

‘His future at Manchester United remains an open story.’

Facing the media ahead of United’s trip to Tottenham, Amorim intimated that he was pleased to see Antony enjoying his football and playing with a smile on his face again.

The Portuguese suggested Antony may be benefitting from being ‘more free’ and playing ‘without pressure’ away from a club of United’s stature in the world game.

‘Sometimes it’s like that, it can happen in any club,’ Amorim responded when asked why had managed to be such an instant success with Real Betis.

‘This is a club with a lot of pressure. At this kind of club you have to have a base of a team to put the younger players, talented players that came from abroad, that come to a team that has one strong base that can help them to cope with that pressure.

‘We don’t have that in this moment so it’s really hard on them and you feel it on [Patrick] Dorgu, he was a little bit nervous in the first moment

‘But if you are playing better as a team, you have a strong core that can cope with this, are winning games and are really strong in the games like it’s supposed to be at this kind of club, it will be more easy for these kind of players to be free to play their football.

Amorim continued: ‘Football is like that.

‘When you reach that level you need to be able to cope with the pressure.

‘Sometimes they go to other clubs and they are more free without pressure and they play better.’