Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo reported that Dutch club Ajax were unhappy with Anthony’s move to Manchester United on the final day of the summer transfers.

The Brazilian joined the English club for €95m with a €100m addition.

And the newspaper explained the statement of the sports director of the Dutch club Jerry Hamstra with the words: “It was a very bad moment, on the last transfer day, which is the most active, it was difficult to leave our coach in such a predicament. “.

He added: “Many players like Lisandro and Haller left, but Anthony’s departure was on the last day and we didn’t have time to replace him.”

He concluded by saying: “We wanted to keep a large number of players so we could do well in the Champions League and that’s something we’ve always talked about with manager Alfred Schroeder and we didn’t expect our players to sign up for that kind of a large amount.”

Johnny Khoury