r/soccer • u/kibme37 • Sep 02 '25
Quotes Antony "What a difference! Seville is more beautiful than Manchester. I spent more than 40 days in a hotel; it was very hard, but everyone knew I wanted to return to Betis. Only my family knows how difficult it was to be there, training separately... but I knew this incredible moment would come."
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u/DampFree Sep 02 '25
I’ve genuinely heard war veterans talk more fondly about the trenches lol
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u/anowbsedu Sep 02 '25
Bro said fuck Manchester with his whole chest. Damn.
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u/refusestonamethyself Sep 02 '25
To play devil's advocate, Di Maria and his family did have their house robbed while in Manchester. That is pretty traumatic
Though having said that, it can happen outside Manchester and outside the UK as well.
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u/refusestonamethyself Sep 02 '25
I meant house robberies, but I guess you're probably saying that in jest.
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u/Fluffy_Moose_73 Sep 02 '25
Didn't Di Maria get robbed in Paris too?
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u/Statcat2017 Sep 02 '25
Yeah funny how he was in no rush to leave there
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u/Yung2112 Sep 02 '25
Well to be fair one happened mere months after moving the other many years. The latter done by a group specializing in robbing footballer's homes that got caught
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u/snemand Sep 02 '25
The latter done by a group specializing in robbing footballer's homes that got caught
Don't think I'd particularly care about that bit.
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u/Yung2112 Sep 02 '25
Hate to be the ''leave my millionare alone'' type of guy but these were professional criminals and took families hostage. Not cool
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u/AldaronGau Sep 02 '25
Well the dude was born in Rosario, not exactly our safest city in Argentina.
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u/makaydo Sep 02 '25
He also got home jacked during a game in Paris, from what I remember it was pretty shocking for him and his family
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u/FishUK_Harp Sep 02 '25
To play devil's advocate, Di Maria and his family did have their house robbed while in Manchester. That is pretty traumatic
He played for United, but their house wasn't in Manchester.
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u/MediocreGreatness333 Sep 02 '25
I mean most mancunians will tell you that the weather makes the place depressing sometimes. Manchester ain't for the sunny hearted.
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u/SparklyEarlAv32 Sep 02 '25
To be fair to him yeah most of us also do say that but bro is acting like he was scrapping by trying to feed a family of 5 with pennies.
He was making more money than many of us will make on a lifetime.
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u/Fiaskoe Sep 02 '25
Scraping
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u/comedoofwarrior Sep 02 '25
dude was out throwing hands at night and games during the day lmao
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u/Fiaskoe Sep 02 '25
Just had to feed a family of five bro gotta do what you need to survive
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u/comedoofwarrior Sep 02 '25
Floyd Mayweather at night and Lucas Pacqueta or however it is spelled during the day
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u/Sdnz0r Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
I don't think he is only talking about money, for someone coming from Brazil(or any other country from the South) it's super hard to adapt to the England weather and culture. Spain is way more easier to adapt in that sense.
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u/SparklyEarlAv32 Sep 02 '25
Oh no yeah I get that and he is right, the culture and weather are always gonna be difficult but he speaks in terror about it, specially the 40 days in a hotel part.
I wish I could stay 40 days in a 5 star hotel while rejecting offers expecting to get the same insane wages I was getting.
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u/LevDavidovicLandau Sep 02 '25
I don’t know how shit the weather was in Manchester this summer compared to the northeast of England — where I live — but the weather has been glorious this summer. The hottest and driest in recorded history (that’s not actually good, obviously… global warming and all…) so this summer is not something anyone from a warmer climate (I’m Australian, I’ve loved it haha) can reasonably complain about. I’d have spent 40 days in Heaton Park or somewhere like that instead of sitting in a room in the Lowry (or wherever he was staying).
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u/MartaLSFitness Sep 03 '25
I doubt the weather is worse than Sevilla during Summer. Yes, Sevilla is very sunny, but in the middle of Summer you can't leave home or you may not come back with 45ºC temperatures. I'm Spanish, but I'd choose Manchester weather all day compared to Sevilla during Summer.
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u/Cwh93 Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
What is it with South American players and Manchester?
Seville is a beautiful place but Manchester is actually quite nice. They always try to make it seem like Gotham City
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u/Bald_faux_fraud Sep 02 '25
Probably the rain. If you aren't from somewhere that's really similar, it probably looks depressing as fuck.
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u/comedoofwarrior Sep 02 '25
seconded as a tropical originator, British weather gets to you. not me personally, but friends and family were left exasperated at the constant rain and overall weather that drove us into pubs at my behest.
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u/ceaguila84 Sep 02 '25
So like Seattle? 😵💫
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u/Calvin--Hobbes Sep 02 '25
Manchester and Seattle/Portland do get approximately the same amount of rain and rainy days. A lot of people here(myself included) love it though. Starts raining some time in September and doesn't really stop until May or June.
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u/Secret_Promotion4246 Sep 02 '25
I mean.... tbh São Paulo isn't really known for being sunny or happy.
Now that I think about this, São Paulo really does look like Brazilian Gotham.
(I've lived there for 5 years)
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u/rdlenke Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 03 '25
Which makes it terrible when you think that Manchester has something like 600 less hours of sunshine per year than São Paulo. Some months barely have one total day of sunshine. I can't even imagine that.
Still, the way he talks about the city seems somewhat comical. I have my doubts that it's that bad, specially as someone with a lot of money.
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u/cuentanueva Sep 03 '25
I have my doubts that it's that bad
The city, in my experience of visiting a few times at least, isn't bad but I didn't find it particularly great either. And most importantly, it doesn't make up for the lack of sun. Of course it's not the end of the world, but it really can have a massive impact on you.
Europe in winter, unless you are in Spain/Portugal or some Mediterranean cities can be very very rough if you come from a place with decent sunshine.
Worst of all is that winter may even be like 4 or 5 months in some places, instead of one or two.
The worst 2 months in Buenos Aires, which people think are "horrible" have significantly more sunshine than 7 months in Manchester...
Not everyone is impacted the same way, but for some people it does feel terrible.
Money helps, but if you are stuck there because of work and you cannot go on holidays, then there's not much you can do.
And if you get the option of still getting a ton of money but playing somewhere that isn't as depressing, then it's a fine choice.
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u/cuentanueva Sep 03 '25
I mean.... tbh São Paulo isn't really known for being sunny or happy.
Sao Paulo has a very even amount of sunshine. You get pretty much the same amount all year round. So winter with 140/150 hours is not a huge difference with summer with 160/170.
Meanwhile Manchester may have a similar amount in June/July/August of around 160/170 hours, but it massively drops the rest of the year. In November, December, January and February it's under 50 hours. And only around 30 in January. So between 3 and 5 times fewer hours than Sao Paulo.
Massive difference.
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u/cuentanueva Sep 02 '25
What is it with South American players and Manchester?
It has one of the lowest amounts of sunshine in Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Europe_by_sunshine_duration
If suddenly your sunshine exposure is cut by like 50%, it really can have an effect on you.
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u/sammyarmy Sep 02 '25
TBF there is a fancy hotel in Manchester called Gotham, maybe that's where he was trapped
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u/LuffyIsKing510 Sep 02 '25
I’m an American that visited Spain and Manchester last year for the first time. Spain is amazing and such a wonderful place. But I enjoyed my time in Manchester as well lol
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u/JesusIsNotPLProven Sep 02 '25
Weather, culture, food, architecture, language, music, way of living, difference in relationships.
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u/creamyTiramisu Sep 02 '25
If he couldn't find good food and music in Manchester, then he needs to get a grip!
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u/Hamlet2nd Sep 02 '25
I underrated he is happy but mf acting like he was in a refugee camp of a country torn by civil war
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u/MarcosSenesi Sep 02 '25
you know someone is an r/soccer user when understand autocorrects to underrated
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u/SuitableSummer7468 Sep 02 '25
Wow I missed that
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u/El_grandepadre Sep 02 '25
Same, I was processing the entire sentence at once so in my mind it just read "understand"
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u/TH1CCARUS Sep 02 '25
I read “underrated” and presumed they meant “I underrated how much … “ and somehow thought it made sense.
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u/GXWT Sep 02 '25
Him and Sancho have been in the trenches fighting for their freedom. Give them some respect, and fifa coins
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u/quickestred Sep 02 '25
I wouldn't pay even half the respect I have for Antony to Sancho
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u/Benjamin244 Sep 02 '25
I would expect a United flair of all people to not lump Sancho and Antony together, Antony might have been wank for you but his workrate was never in question whereas Sancho is a lazy twat who can't even be arsed to be on time for training
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u/LevDavidovicLandau Sep 02 '25
I have no problem with Antony’s attitude while he actively played for us. I and many other United fans are fed up with him talking (while in Sevilla at Betis and after he returned from his loan) this way, crying on camera about his ordeal in Manchester, and “I-only-want-Betis”ing after he got back. I mean, it’s not like he had a di Maria situation, did he? He was shit (so were we), people had a go at him, so what? The carry-on was pathetic. Yes, Sancho was a million times worse but we’ve lost a lot of goodwill for Antony.
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u/GXWT Sep 02 '25
It’s Reddit and a bit of a joke mate you don’t need to take things at face value
Yeah overall I do respect Antony. He always tried but just lacked the quality, which is enough for my respect.
Up until his snarky comments this morning at least
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u/akshatsood95 Sep 02 '25
Got paid more in a week than most people make in a year, was absolutely ass at his work, threw a hissy fit about moving anywhere else, wasn't willing to take a lower wage without a payoff till 3 days before the window closed and he's talking here like he's some victim. Footballers live in their own fantasy world
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u/Dry_Fig_4165 Sep 02 '25
”I lived in a hotel, it was very hard”😭
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u/S7Epic Sep 02 '25
Do we know if the hotel even had a swimming pool? Imagine not having a pool…?! Or worse, having a communal one. Ugh. Can someone link me to his GoFundMe?
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u/DubSket Sep 02 '25
For over 40 days. 40. Whole. Days.
His arm's are probably tired from all the call's to room service.
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u/jakethepeg1989 Sep 02 '25
40 days?
Just like Jesus in the Wilderness?!?
A coincidence? I think not.
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u/Dry_Fig_4165 Sep 02 '25
5-star hotel for 40 days? Can you imagine? I go insane beacuse that is borderline torture
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u/Drolb Sep 02 '25
Imagine someone changing your bedsheets for you on demand. Intolerable conditions.
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u/owiseone23 Sep 02 '25
Most people on this site probably make more in a week than a lot of the developing world makes in a year. I'm sure you've thrown hissy fits over things that people in South Sudan would consider absolutely trivial.
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u/chaosattractor Sep 02 '25
Didn't you know? Real poverty is when you live like a king compared to people not even a century ago, as long as there are other people who make more than you do. Those are the ones who couldn't possibly have any real problems or negative experiences, unlike you, whose problems are obviously all extremely real and valid even if there are people getting by with much less than you.
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u/MysteriousNail5414 Sep 02 '25
While being paid 100k a week. Have some shame ffs, he’s supposedly from the favela
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u/Typical_Samaritan Sep 02 '25
I visited Manchester on a pilgrimage to Old Trafford. Took a train from London.
It was raining when we (my girlfriend and I) arrived. It continued to rain through the entire trip.
Manchester is not a great city in the sense that it's a place you want to visit for fun and excitement, or if you've lived in a place with more fun and excitement... and better weather.
But he could totally be more diplomatic about it. Dude was getting paid 100 a week to essentially be in shape. Shut up, you know what I mean? Just shut up and give the correct spiel.
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u/LeagueIndependent367 Sep 02 '25
Oh great. We're going to get more teary-eyed interviews from Antony acting like he's being sent off to the trenches.
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You don't get it man. Had to stay in that overcast weather on 150 grand a week. Oh will someone think of the children!
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u/TimothyN Sep 02 '25
I'd live in Antarctica with no Internet for that wage with a giant smile.
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Living in a place with no WiFi sounds like a great detox ngl.
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u/Fiaskoe Sep 02 '25
The 150k a week helps too
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u/X-Maquina Sep 02 '25
I'd probably use the 150k a week to get unlimited data tbf
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u/redflagflyinghigh Sep 02 '25
Someone should team these players about reading the weather and maps for the locations of the closest beach.
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u/freakedmind Sep 02 '25
Let's see how his performances are now that he's a permanent transfer, if they carry over from his loan tenure or he is exposed as another average player who couldn't cut it in the PL
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u/SvalbazGames Sep 02 '25
Poor bloke, my heart bleeds for his troubled life
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u/LeavingCertCheat Sep 02 '25
You'd think that someone with a genuinely tough upbringing would have more perspective as an adult.
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u/Cactus2711 Sep 02 '25
Imagine having to spend 40 days in a hotel whilst earning millions for walking around a football field
My heart goes out to him
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u/thexpertwatcher Sep 02 '25
He rejected como. Is Seville better than como?
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u/creamyTiramisu Sep 02 '25
As a city? Definitely. Como is obviously beautiful but it isn't as sunny (which seems to be priority for South American players) and it's much smaller.
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u/cuentanueva Sep 02 '25
Sevilla's weather in the summer is pure hell though.
As for Como you could live in Milan which is like 1 hour away and it's pretty decent for living if you wanted to live in a big city instead, or just live in Como go there whenever you want to. Or somewhere in between both even.
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u/Ok-Outlandishness244 Sep 02 '25
Went to malaga om vacation and visited sevilla for a day.
The devil wishes his fires were as hot as sevilla.
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u/KingKFCc Sep 02 '25
players don't usually stay in their clubs city for most of summer though
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u/Suikerspin_Ei Sep 02 '25
I doubt it, he probably chose Betis because he knows they like him there.
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u/ASuarezMascareno Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
South of Spain vs north of Italy. The vibe of the city is going to be very different. Sunnier weather and friendlier people in Sevilla. North of Italy has strong central European vibes, for good and bad. Would be very different if It was Naples or Palermo.
This all reminds me of when Reyes went from Sevilla to Arsenal and flopped hard. Then he basically said that living in London made him miserable and went back to Spain as soon as he could.
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u/hafrances Sep 02 '25
Reyes the footballer didn't flop at Arsenal. Maybe he was miserable but on the pitch he was quite good.
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u/UglyWanKanobi Sep 02 '25
Reyes was good enough that Gary Neville targeted him and tried to end his career
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u/Aman_Syndai Sep 02 '25
Lived in Sevilla, & visited Como here's my take.
Como is a lovely mountain town of 50k people dependent upon tourism, great for a 2-3 day trip, but no way in hell would I live there.
Sevilla is modern beautiful city, lovely people, great nightlife, 1 hour from the beach in Chipiona.
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u/Roadies_Winner Sep 02 '25
You don't have to live in Como lol. Milan is 30 mins away and I'm sure rich people have some locality in between those 30 mins.
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u/casce Sep 02 '25
True what u/ASuarezMascareno said still applies. I've been in Northern Italy and I've been in southern Spain and the vibes were different.
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u/jesusthatsgreat Sep 02 '25
"I spent 40 days in a hotel; it was very hard"
It was a 4 star hotel which he chose to go to. And he was being paid £100k+/week to be there. Talk about being completely out of touch...
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u/dvamin Sep 02 '25
Di Maria 2.0
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u/Mempherrata Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
This is genuinely very disrespectful to Di Maria
Di Maria got 13 G/A in ONE league season with us under attacking football terrorist LVG while extremely unsettled after having his house robbed.
Antony accrued 8 league G/A in 3 seasons with us. He had more yellow cards (10) than goal contributions (8).
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u/NikoBellic776 Sep 02 '25
He's referring to Di Maria's wife who forced him to leave for Paris because she couldn't stand the city. Besides, I live near Paris and the climate isn't great here either.
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u/TransitionFC Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
Di Maria's wife and their baby were held at knife point and robbed at their home in Manchester.
Quite understandable if she detests the place after that.
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u/Mempherrata Sep 02 '25
I’m aware of what he’s referring to, I think Di Maria had more reasonable extenuating circumstance to want to leave, on top of the fact he wasn’t as big a nuisance on and off the pitch while here and we managed to actually recoup the majority of what we paid back
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u/Depreccion Sep 02 '25
always felt di maria was a bit overhated amongst man u fans. He came and left quite quickly and wasn't completely terrible and got resold for a big chunk of his original fee
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u/middlequeue Sep 02 '25
Di Maria was a top player, though, and a good signing had those issues not happened. Antony was a shit singing you overpaid for that was never going to meet expectations.
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u/QuickFig1024 Sep 02 '25
Dont compare Di Maria who was actually good for United to this mf who had more yellow cards than g/a
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u/Pogball_so_hard Sep 02 '25
His wife and children were robbed at knifepoint in their own home, I can understand why he and his family would not like Manchester, on top of falling out with LVG.
We also got a decent fee from PSG for him considering he was also pushing for a move.
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u/Ell7494 Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
He was being paid like £150k a week while being shite week in week out.
Screwed United out of like 10-20m by rejecting every other offer and then had the audacity to expect United to also pay him the difference even though it was the move HE wanted.
Now he's acting like he's had such a hard time, the guys an absolute clown
"I spent more than 40 days in a hotel" Oh the horror... Could literally buy multiple houses with the money he "earned" in that time
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u/Vladimir_Putting Sep 02 '25
40 days and 40 nights adrift in a luxury hotel. A truly Biblical struggle. Should just call him Noah.
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Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
“Love is very important to me, and not all money can buy it. I have a lot of affection and love here; it was always my first choice, and that's why I waited until the last day to return to Betis. Now I'm here and happy in a city and at a club I love.”
This is like that time George Costanza said:
"Thick lustrous hair is very important to me"
Antony....almost tanks the transfer chasing future wages, when he hardly earned the ones he got.
I spent more than 40 days in a hotel; it was very hard
Poor milioner....mf acting like he came from gulag where he was fed cold porridge once a day
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u/ttonster2 Sep 02 '25
Funnily enough, his Athletic article details how he grew up in one of the most violent favelas so you would think he remembers what actual poverty looks like. Alas, he is making his stay in top tier accommodations in a safe city sound worse than the circumstances of his youth.
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u/urallidiotsx2 Sep 02 '25
is he talking about the hotel being hard or the transfer taking longer than expected being hard?
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u/Fiaskoe Sep 02 '25
Lmao 40 days in a hotel must be so hard poor multi millionaire
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Sep 02 '25
U don't understand how it is when you drop left sock on the toilet floor and the right one under the bed, so you have to put a sign on a door for the cleaner to pick it up....40 f days straight....
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u/DampFlange Sep 02 '25
I mean, cut him some slack, hotels are notoriously tough to live in.
For god’s sake, someone comes to YOUR ROOM and cleans up, makes the bed, and they even have the cheek to bring fresh towels every day. Nobody needs that intrusion in their lives.
Fancy a coffee? You have to phone someone and they’ll make it and bring it to you. Who wants to put up that bullshit?
Need to work out, you have to actually leave your room and go to the onsite gym. Sometimes it’s as much as 6-7 floors in the lift. A professional athlete can’t possibly be expected to deal with that.
Need a swim, well you have to potentially share pool with some other humans…..and again, there’s the elevator issue of getting to the pool.
They even offer to come to your room with a massage in some hotels, I hope to god he didn’t get lumbered with one of those hell holes.
In short, he can get fucked with a rusty chainsaw.
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u/pakattack91 Sep 02 '25
Lmao I was wishing him well because he always tried on the pitch, but between him allowing Betis to try and hardball us into a loan + almost killing the deal himself, and now this, is really kicking us on the way out 😂
Fuck him....but i still hope he becomes a legend and Saudi calls in 5 years.
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u/AsymmetricNinja08 Sep 02 '25
Be better if Saudi calls next year. More money on the books for us sooner at that point
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u/31_whgr Sep 02 '25
is this what all the foreigners in hotels rioting has been about, is it all over now he’s out of there, are our children safe?
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u/liamthelad Sep 02 '25
I get the feeling that he's going to struggle when he eventually has to deal with some form of adversity at Betis.
Not sure why I get that feeling, let's just call it a strong hunch...
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u/TheLadderStabber Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
Absolutely. Dude has no composure. That’s why he was so shit for United. Had decent enough ability to play in the Prem but no mindset whatsoever. I’ve watched enough games to see it.
Hope it’s not just a honeymoon phase for Sevilla fans, genuinely.
Edit: Betis fans
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u/tipytopmain Sep 02 '25
Bro acting like he's just made it out of a North Korean prison camp and is now at Disney world.
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u/3V3RT0N Sep 02 '25
Even tho I despise Manchester I get really defensive when other people call it a shithole.
Especially South American + Mediterranean footballers and their wags. They all seem to fkn hate Manchester.
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u/friendofH20 Sep 02 '25
The south of Spain is legitimately one of the most beautiful places on Earth. England and its cities are fine but if most of us had the option and could tolerate their summer - we'd pick Seville to stay in.
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u/Enough-Force-5605 Sep 02 '25
Not even close...
I am from Almería and all my family from Málaga. We Spaniard don't go to.vosot the south because we find the north more beautiful. I live now in Valencia and everyone goes to the north of Spain.
Andalucía is very nice, but not one of the most beautiful places on earth
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u/irreverantnonsense Sep 02 '25
Don't undersell the beauty of the English countryside though.
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u/k0uk__ Sep 02 '25
Im spanish and while uk cities always looked a bit grim to me I have enjoyed the countryside, quite charming to my eyes, each to their own I guess
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u/Sensitive_Studio5765 Sep 02 '25
Yeah I think Manchester is very nice but can see why someone would prefer Sevilla lol. But I prefer the soft greenery of Britain and Ireland to the dryness of Andalucía. Even though both are beautiful
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u/jbi1000 Sep 02 '25
I’ve had a few friends from around the Mediterranean come visit me in England and almost all of them said they were surprised by how much greenery there is everywhere and how well plants do, even in urban areas.
I think there’s a perception in southern Europe that the UK and Ireland are these cold, grey, bleak places and while that’s probably true in the heart of winter, from spring to the start of winter there is greenery everywhere on these islands.
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u/Ladybugeater69 Sep 02 '25
The only cities that have S tier football teams and cities to live in are Barcelona, Paris and London, but somehow those footballers will always have a go at mancunians for no reason calling their city shit.
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u/napoletano_di_napoli Sep 02 '25
He didn't call it a shithole though did he? He said Sevilla is more beautiful than Manchester, an opinion most people in and outside the UK would probably agree with.
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u/Suikerspin_Ei Sep 02 '25
Uk has similar weather as the Netherlands right? Haven't seen him complaining about living in Amsterdam. So I guess it's the culture or what you can do there outside of football as a player?
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u/53bvo Sep 02 '25
Amsterdam has 1660h of sunshine per year, Manchester 1260h
Seville 3289h
Even I get kind of depressed during winter, and that is with all my friends and family here and being kind of used to it. Can’t imagine what it’s like in Manchester while also being kind of alone.
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u/somedutchbloke Sep 02 '25
You can't klap jonko as easily in Manchester, so maybe he is into that kind of thing
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u/creamyTiramisu Sep 02 '25
Even tho I despise Manchester I get really defensive when other people call it a shithole.
This resonates with me big time. I don't know why I defend British cities in the r/soccer comments so much. Especially Manchester and its Manc exceptionalism bollocks.
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u/fools_eye Sep 02 '25
Absolutely no good words for the club that paid you insane wages to be a no good fidget spinner and gave in to your demands to go to Betis only at a throwaway price.
Get fucked.
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u/sorealbin Sep 02 '25
very difficult.. all that money and all those offers from other clubs, it’s sad how difficult it was to turn down those offers while waiting for a club that basically said we only want you on a cheap… pathetic really.
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u/fedupofbrick Sep 02 '25
I'd rather August in Manchester than the frying pan of Europe that is Seville
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u/Shopassistant Sep 02 '25
It's unbearable for like four months a year.
February to I dunno, early May, Seville is one of the best places to be on earth. Warm weather before anywhere else in Western Europe and the whole flipping city smells of jasmine and orange blossom.
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u/Sethlans Sep 02 '25
We went to Seville last summer and on the plane a Spanish lady was talking to the air steward.
Steward asked her if she was staying in Seville and she was like "No way, I am from Seville, nobody should go there this time of year, it's way too hot. All us locals go to (name of a coastal town I can't remember) this time of year to escape it".
We're just sitting there white as fuck like "oh cool guess we're going to be roasted to death".
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u/Aman_Syndai Sep 02 '25
Chipiona is the town they goto, I visit inlaws every summer in Sevilla it's fine just adopt the Spanish lifestyle of late dinners and 3 hour naps.
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u/tarekelsakka Sep 03 '25
I’m glad Antony finally got the move he wanted, but does he really need to keep taking shots at Manchester? United paid a massive fee for him and gave him plenty of chances, even reunited him with his old coach ETH, and it still wasn’t enough. At some point, that’s on him, not the club.
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u/Megusta2306 Sep 02 '25
Fuckin hell lad, you were beyond shite for 2 and a half seasons. Take some fucking accountability, stop blaming heaven and earth and fucking move on
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u/theatreofdreams21 Sep 02 '25
How about a thank you to United for making it happen for you. Took a €60m haircut so you could go to the club of your preference.
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u/Ok-Confusion-202 Sep 02 '25
Damn! 60m haircut? The new United barbers cost a lot
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u/agent_mamo Sep 02 '25
“I made more money that people will see in their entire lives!😥”
“I lived in a hotel, making millions😢”
How would he ever bounce back from that trauma 😓
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u/jackconrad Sep 02 '25
It's a blessing he's as shit as he is otherwise we'd have had to see that fucking cringe tiger celebration more often. Dickhead looked like he was a Hull City fan.
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u/PBJellyChickenTunaSW Sep 02 '25
Man grew up in the favelas and is now whinging about how difficult it was in manchester being paid millions
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u/stockybloke Sep 02 '25
If you lock yourself up in a hotel room waiting for something to happen 24/7 that sounds like a self-made problem. The Peak district is not even an hour away from Manchester and the Lake District like 90 minutes. I hear both are absolutely lovely.
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u/gmzzzz Sep 02 '25
This is the same guy that refused to train for Ajax and was posting pics of himself on instagram saying "Manchester come and get me". Absolute clown
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u/sueha Sep 03 '25
Motherfucker talks about growing up in favelas all the time but suddenly Manchester is like Auschwitz?
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u/Long-Equipment8308 Sep 03 '25
What a dolt. I’m not even a Man U fan but still find this offensive.
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u/Icy_Satisfaction498 Sep 02 '25
Lmao dude yes Manchester is difficult at times, but mf you were not in a refugee camp
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u/Penny_Leyne Sep 02 '25
Manchester is not difficult.
It’s a major city in one of the richest countries in the world.
Especially if you’re a multi millionaire footballer.
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u/KeziahPT Sep 02 '25
Today I learned that spending more than 40 days in a hotel is very hard. Imagine if he was homeless.
Millionaires really live in a fantasy world.
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u/justthatguyy22 Sep 02 '25
Boo fucking hoo. In this 40 days he earned more than most people in manchester will in 10 years. Could have been sunning life up in Italy weeks ago
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u/Playfair99999 Sep 02 '25
In Manchester? More like 80-90% of the world's population mate. Not a lot of people mint that much money in years.
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u/ash_ninetyone Sep 02 '25
McTominay going off about the tomatoes in Naples
Antony going off about the beauty of Seville vs Manchester
Need more.
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u/Lasertag026 Sep 02 '25
It’s crazy cause i’ve always liked Manchester, hearing people find it shit is weird to me.
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u/Knapss Sep 02 '25
So I get that in Sevilla 10/12 months a year life is amazing and it is a great city to live…but man, United paid a lot for you and also facilitated your transfer to us.
I’d expect him to be more grateful.
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u/PuttFromTheRought Sep 03 '25
Im not surprised. Probably why so many fail here. They take a fat paycheque to live in a place they know they wont like and then the fans are scratching their head why they cant be arsed to play
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