Fabrizio Romano has revealed that there was a \u201ccall\u201d from a European giant to sign a Manchester United star and there was a \u201cvery clear\u201d answer.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils<\/a> were very active in the transfer market in the summer as they required a massive overhaul after finishing 15th in the Premier League in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n The Premier League giants invested around \u00a3230m on incomings<\/a> as they strengthened in attack and signed a new goalkeeper, landing Senne Lammens, Benjamin Sesko, Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha.<\/p>\n Man Utd also worked on exits as most of their bomb squad, including Antony, Alejandro Garnacho, Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford, were moved elsewhere.<\/p>\n For most of the summer window, it felt like only a matter of time until Antony rejoined Real Betis after last season\u2019s stunning loan spell at the Spanish side.<\/p>\n READ: Amorim can be Tuchel\u2019s saviour with Man Utd U-turn after incredibly depressing England admission<\/a><\/p>\n This move was finalised at the end of the transfer window, but Antony has since claimed that he had an opportunity to join Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n \u201cI spoke with Bayern, I don\u2019t know if it was \u20ac7 million, but I said I had Betis\u2019s word and that it was 95% certain and that I would respect my word,\u201d Antony told Cope.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel comfortable making this decision because I\u2019m very happy here. More than five teams called me.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, Romano has confirmed Bayern Munich\u2019s interest and revealed there were two reasons behind his \u201cvery clear\u201d verdict on a move to the Bundesliga giants.<\/p>\n \u201cAntony is one of the big names we had in the final days of the transfer window as he moved to Real Betis. But, in an interview Antony confirmed something that I can confirm to you: there was a call coming in the very final hours of the summer transfer window from Germany. And that call was from FC Bayern,\u201d Romano said on his YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 \u201cBayern asked about the situation of Antony. Let\u2019s put it into context. Bayern were waiting to clarify the situation of Nicolas Jackson as the priority was always to sign Jackson.<\/p>\n \u201cBut, while the Jackson deal was on hold, Bayern called some other players to try to understand if there was a chance of a deal in case Chelsea really wanted to keep Jackson.<\/p>\n \u201cThey made a call for Antony to understand the situation with Betis. They were interested in the situation of Antony, but it was never a permanent transfer.<\/p>\n \u201cThe answer from the player was very clear. The focus for Antony was always to go back to Betis and to play on a regular basis as for Bayern he would\u2019ve been just a back-up.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wants to play on a regular basis and he wants to feel like an important player as it\u2019s a World Cup season.\u201d<\/p>\n Romano added: \u201cThe real transfer fee for Antony to Betis is \u20ac22 million guaranteed, plus \u20ac3m in add-ons and a 50% sell-on clause on the future profit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano has revealed that there was a \u201ccall\u201d from a European giant to sign a Manchester United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1579,1766,218,348,349,50,221,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-116700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-antony","tag-bayern-munich","tag-football","tag-home-page","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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