{"id":23883,"date":"2022-07-18T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/18\/chelsea-sniffing-around-manchester-united-attacking-target\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T13:01:27","slug":"chelsea-sniffing-around-manchester-united-attacking-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/18\/chelsea-sniffing-around-manchester-united-attacking-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea \u2018sniffing around\u2019 Manchester United attacking target"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chelsea could steal a march on Manchester United for Ajax winger Antony, it has been reported.<\/p>\n

After Erik ten Hag took over at United from Ajax, a number of the Dutch powerhouses\u2019 top players have, of course, been linked with Manchester United.<\/p>\n

The main names have been: Jurrin Timber, Lisandro Martinez \u00a0\u2013 who is now a United player- and Anthony.<\/p>\n

Antony would likely be an excellent option for United as they are very short in the wide areas at present.<\/p>\n

Jesse Lingard left the club for free at the end of last month. This leaves just Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Anthony Elanga as natural wide players for the 2022\/23 campaign.<\/p>\n

So, signing Antony, whose electrifying pace and quick feet would cause Premier League defences all sorts of issues, seems like a smart move.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian is still only young at 22 but is already performing at the highest level \u2013 assisting four and scoring two in six Champions League this past season.<\/p>\n

Now however, it appears as though Chelsea, who are seemingly in the market for a right-sided forward following their pursuit of Raphinha, are interested in Antony.<\/p>\n

Journalist Dean Jones had this to say on Chelsea\u2019s interest in the South American:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is something in the rumour about Chelsea sniffing around Antony. They know he is looking for a move, so they might look to get involved,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s slightly similar to the [Cristiano] Ronaldo situation. Basically, they need an elite attacker and there are not many that are actually looking for transfers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Whilst this would be a big blow for United, they should take some comfort from Thomas Tuchel\u2019s comments on signing another forward following the capture of Raheem Sterling:<\/p>\n

\u201cI would not rule it out [signing another striker] but right now it is not the priority,\u201d the German recently told\u00a0Sky Sports<\/a>. \u201cThe priority right now is defence, it\u2019s not a secret. From there we need to see what\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chelsea could steal a march on Manchester United for Ajax winger Antony, it has been reported. After Erik ten Hag took over at United from Ajax, a number of the Dutch powerhouses\u2019 top players have, of course, been linked with Manchester United. The main names have been: Jurrin Timber, Lisandro Martinez \u00a0\u2013 who is now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-23883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}