THEY SIGNED THE WRONG WINGER! 😳 Alex Crook INSISTS Man United Should Have Signed Kudus Over Antony

TalkSPORT's Alex Crook explains why he believes Manchester United should have signed former Ajax winger Mohammed Kudus over Antony.
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[@OseiYaw-l3e]

I mean the coach worked with Kudus in Ajax , he should have known better

[@mmsmith1525]

Antony is NOT a footballer, United just bought a ball-kicker not a footballer

[@richardansah5283]

I said this long time we signed the wrong winger kudus is so direct its something we need at utd

[@polaris7122]

Bet you said SANCHO was good!!!!!!

[@richardansah5283]

@@polaris7122 nope not at all

[@polaris7122]

@@richardansah5283 yea, I believe you!

[@GGMU100]

All the Dutch pundits was saying we should of signed kudus instead of Antony the moment we signed him it's quite worrying ten hag decided to bring Antony instead

[@jameshall6061]

Since when do managers listen to pundits?

[@chrisbal4882]

Because kudus was always injured and united had ronaldo and martial,therefore they dif not need kudus,when ten hag wanted to get him in the winter transfer window when ronaldo left united didnt wanna pay and loaned weghorst instead,the rest is history

[@GGMU100]

@@chrisbal4882 Antony has had he's fair share of injuries tbh not to mention the domestic abuse scandal and he hasn't performed well

[@GGMU100]

@@jameshall6061 when I say pundits that's what they are now they're ex players who watch the Dutch league and they was spot on kudus is a far better player even before he come to the premier league

[@delanoblanco2248]

Its not about the wrong winger only, how odd it is that eth signed all the wrong players? Eth is out of his depth

[@polaris7122]

EXACTLY!!

[@patrickmullins7981]

Why is a football coach signing players, seems to me like that's not his job at all and should be the job of somebody like a Paul Mitchell or Dan Ashworth. I suppose that's ETH's fault as well.

[@nathanielaboagye3795]

Fact. They signed the fake 1. Kudus is 10 times better than this fraud😂😂😂😂

[@seray0078]

Sad but true.

[@New-ye2fl]

Bailey at villa looks too class, we were so close to getting him at Newcastle at some stage i think

[@CaesarSK13]

Hindsight is a beautiful thing. The moment they signed Antony, Kudus wasn't showing the same potential he was showing a year later. He was injured a lot and mostly a bench player. Ajax in 2021/2022 was way more stacked and Kudus didn't have the spotlight, it was more on players like Haller/Antony/Gravenberch/Alvarez/Tadic/Berghuis around Kudus' position to step up. Most of them left or got less important in 2022/2023, which basically made Kudus one of the main threats for Ajax and that really put him on the radar for PL clubs. So this whole 'They should've signed Kudus over Antony' is such a stupid take. Antony should've never gone for 80 mil. He was good at Ajax, but never 80 mil good, all Ajax fans know this, but signing Kudus over Antony at that time just made no sense.

[@cephaslaryea8452]

Everything you wrote show that you know nothing about hindsight. Not in this case at least. You’re just spewing opinion. Kudus has always being a better prospect than Antony. They came in at Ajax in the same transfer window but Antony probably came in a couple of months before. Kudus and Antony picked up steam and were both on fire but from different positions: Kudus as a central midfielder and occasionally as a false 9 while Antony did his thing as right winger. Shortly after kudus began to suffer a series of injury setbacks starting from one that he sustained at Anfield against Liverpool in his first ever champions league game. He sustained 3 more serious injuries which took him off his stride and sort of derailed his trajectory. He lost his place in the starting 11 and most of all his momentum. Antony on the other hand, continued where he started until Ten Hag left Ajax. From what I’ve written, tell me who you would have chosen if you were Ten Hag? It didn’t mean Antony was better than Kudus. He was not. In fact Kudus was seen by the likes of Marc Overmas as the best player Ajax got outside of the academy for a while . Marco Van Basten also won’t stop telling the world how Kudus was by far a better player than Antony And nobody listened. this is all before people like you laid eyes on Kudus and Antony

[@CaesarSK13]

@@cephaslaryea8452 Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree with you man, chill, especially on Kudus being a better prospect than Antony, even 2/3 years ago. I should've clarified he was mostly a bench player after his return from injuries, which was more for safety than for skill. But you're still proving my point with the fact that Kudus didn't play enough in the 2021/2022 season for Man U to consider him, purely because he was out for so many of the games those last seasons, so they went with Antony, which I think is a fair decision at the time. And my point was that in hindsight, you can't just say that they should've bought Kudus (even if Kudus is the better prospect), at the time he was barely making minutes, while Antony just came off a great season.

[@brotaku8619]

@@cephaslaryea8452 couldn't have said it better myself

[@denniskumi2579]

Kudus is always a better player than Anthony. If u dont know he scored 4 goals 2 assist in 6games in the UCL group stages and scored 2 n an assist in 3 games in the world cup group stages. I bet Anthony can never do that. Reality has made us understand n know that Anthony is a bad signing for Man u just accept that

[@curtleon7163]

Dutch legend Marco van Basten has said kudus is a much better footballer than anthony stop coming in hey to chat rubbish or defend anthony Kudus scored against Liverpool overall 4 goals in 6 games champions league in a poor ajax side anthony is just overrated and his fee because he was Brazilian ten hag is showing he's not a very good manager kudus is far better than anthony simple.

[@Triple_X_X]

Why would Kudus downgrade that much?

[@factzoverfeelings7503]

Antony + Hojlund + Sancho = roughly $220 million pounds with 1 total premier league goal all season 🥴

[@terrymacdad8742]

Kudus >>>> Anthony

[@Azyjfm]

Antony moves like Charlie Chaplin 😂

[@hustleup3840]

Chelsea should sign Paqueta

[@DavyRo]

It's unbelievable that so called football journalists none of them mention Amad Diallo of Man U. I'm a Sunderland season ticket holder & have been longer than these Muppets have been on the planet. The lad I've just mentioned went back to Man U & suffered a bad injury in pre season. As a result Man U haven't been able to field him. Anthony will either have to up his game massively, or he's going to lose his place when Amad is fit. Man U paid 38 million for him as a youngster. After playing for us for a season it was obvious why. Patience doesn't happen in modern football. But believe me Amad is the winger Man U need. They don't need to sign another one.

[@richardjones8699]

I'd love to see him get a run in the team to show what he can do.

[@sunglee3935]

Ten hag has favorites so I’m not sure amad will play. Antony plays a lot even though he has 0 goal 0 assist

[@craigbarnett9489]

Amad is class. He will get game time when he’s fit because there’s so many under performers at united

[@sunglee3935]

Dan gore and mejbri didn’t play much. Ten hag has some strange obsessions with mctominay, etc. you can’t trust ten hag to give everyone a chance. Vdb has more skills than mctominay but never gets a sniff.

[@jameshall6061]

DVB? seriously,Ten Hag has given plenty of chances out,but you don't give chances out , because a player is young they have to earn their chances.Garnacho and Manoo for starters.Oh by the way Numbskull I am a season ticket holder what are your credentials as a United fan?

[@briansam5681]

are today's pundits just lazy or what... saying this just shows that this lot just say anything without thinking cz the season utd bought antony he was for lack of a better term playing better and ahead of kudus in the ajax line up... it's like if a team came and bought rashford and another bought garnacho based on last season's numbers you cld say the team that got rashford got the better deal but fast forward to this season we cant say the same now can we......!!!!!

[@ThePADRAIG9]

Clickbait merchant ....have yet to see him stick with a united player going through a bad time formwise for a supposed united fan....classic glory hunter showing his colours

[@toolazytocomeupwithanythin4020]

Pellegrini was a wrong choice but it’s the West Ham fans who are to blame because we wanted a more progressive manager. Sullivan made the wrong choice then blamed the fans. I’m so sick of hearing we don’t warrant a more attractive style of football because we had Pellegrini and it didn’t work!

[@jamesfagan7823]

Between Antony Sancho and martial 3 of the most useful clowns ever to wear a united shirt total rubbish

[@richardansah5283]

I dont know why ur talking about Martial the fact hes the best striker at the club

[@garykearns2922]

Westham should be grateful to have moyes hes doing the same thing at Everton. Good steady manager. Think of curbishley at charlton and allardyce at bolton when they left . Be greatfull for what yous have hamner fans. From a utd fan.

[@kokefran3756]

Kudus is class

[@natenew3231]

Kudus isn’t a fraud that’s why

[@underwoodproductions]

Did they really say they miss a random player??

[@7hoenix]

Said Manchester misspelled the name loool 😂

[@obajimidamilolaositelu2983]

Alex Crook who once described Maguire as a rolls Royce of a defender? Slating Ed Woodward for not initially sanctioning the deal 😅😂 Efan Ekoku should be a pundit on T.S. 1 of a few with consistent balanced views.

[@Triple_X_X]

Kudus is obviously much better than Antony but they didn't sign any wrong winger but rather the right winger signed for the wrong club

[@patrickmullins7981]

The thing is if he signed for United ye would have found some reason to hound him out and there would be daily videos of bang average ex pros explaining to us why he is not United level .

[@jameshall6061]

Absolute correct 👍👍

[@seanmcquinn9603]

So true 👍

[@Walker22451]

This is the factual comment

[@Walker22451]

This is the factual comment

[@craigbarnett9489]

Who is Alex Crook?

[@chrissilvester5663]

United should've never signed Antony for the mount we did. Trouble is we could've got him for at least half the price had we signed him before Ajax started to sell other players but cos we dicked about Ajax then didn't need the money so therefore baited us into saying how much u wanna pay & cos the incompetence of those at the top we got taken to the cleaners. Had we had proper footballing people in place we would've got the deal done alot sooner or we would've walked away. That is why these changes can't come soon enough where we no longer piss money up the wall like we've done for numerous years

[@richardjones8699]

A lot has to be on Erik. He must have said 'get him at all costs'. 😕

[@chrissilvester5663]

@@richardjones8699 He did want Antony very early on in the summer he was ignored. By the time we acted we became so desperate that we caved into Ajax's demands. That goes to show the level of incompetence we've been dealing with for numerous years now. Can't wait till proper people come in

[@richardjones8699]

@@chrissilvester5663 He wasn't really a good signing under any circumstances.

[@chrissilvester5663]

@@richardjones8699 He's been underwhelming admittedly but we still shouldn't of wasted 80m+ on him. That's down to the board not Ten Hag

[@richardjones8699]

@@chrissilvester5663 He shouldn't have been on the radar fullstop. Heaven knows why Erik rated him.

[@michaelburley2905]

Should have signed Palhinha instead of mount

[@latoyacasely-hayford9570]

Antony is Pooo!! He came in as an imposter, now his covers been blown. Send him back.

[@Kobe_kj]

the biggest scam in football ever is ETH signing Antony instead of Kudus

[@SleekMack]

Erik Ten Hag bought Antony!!! Arnold and Murtogh assisted him.... There was no proper inquiry about this... Just negotiating... Yes we don't have or did not have a director of sports but they surely asked other scouts and head of scouts but how they arrived at 100 million euros is mindblowing 😮😮😮 And now you will hear how nobody wanted him at THEIR CLUB 🙄🙄🙄🤏🏽 The same "manager" who got rid of the greatest player in the history of the game so he could justify his 100 million euros dribbler 🤦🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

[@ocher8931]

Man United higher ups seem to think themselves above signing players most other premier league teams have gone for. We’ve suffered massively because of it. Our signings have mainly been marquee word class past their prime and youngsters with hype OR you’ve never even heard of before. Guys who play FM know more than United scouts. It’s a joke.

[@SweetScience93]

West Ham are a better team than Man Utd. So kudus wouldn’t make a difference there.

[@jameshall6061]

Bellsniff,who hides behind a pseudonym

[@lucbailey896]

I'm in the Moyes out camp, but I can completely understand why other West Ham fans like or love him. He's done a fantastic job as our manager with what he's achieved with us, but he's the most frustrating manager I've ever experienced. His game by game tactics leave a lot to be desired, he constantly to gives too much respect to opponents, frustratingly one-dimensional, continuously plays soucek even when performing stupidly poorly, i could go on. We've got a new sporting director at the club now which a lot of us are will push us on even further in the football world. Thanks for everything Moyesey, best of luck in the future

[@alfie3632]

that the Brazilian tax, the world has caught up and Brazilian players, for the most part, are just ordinary now

[@gman4473]

They signed the wrong midfielder striker left back right back center backs and goalkeeper 😂

[@paakwegyir3165]

disrespect to West ham... so man u signed the wrong one and should have signed kudus.... so who should west ham have signed? yall need to show some respect... Anthony was playing well at the time that's why he was signed...

[@chucklombardo8167]

I wonder if antony played on left wud he be better as he is left footed 🎉

[@richardjones8699]

Couldn't be much worse offensively

[@beatonthedonis]

Kudus would look terrible in the Man United team, because Man United is such a toxic mess, it makes all players look terrible. I think even prime Messi would struggle in that cesspit.

[@henrylim6990]

Alex got it wrong again.Pundit?

[@Benwixxy]

Well these people dnt like African player’s especially if play in the national team. Look at pep same.

[@LetYBCook]

They have one better than both, Mason Greenwood.

[@sunglee3935]

Ten hag is a stubborn guy

[@carlitor4173]

khvicha kvaratskhelia we could have got for less than what we payed for anthony 😒

[@lorekinyin]

Kudus is more of a striker then a winger

[@melissayeboah1210]

He's not more of a striker, though he can play in that position comfortably. He doesn't like to be fed to score, he likes to work and score. All his 10 goals for westham currently comes from the right wing, midfield and striker position. He can also play on the left.

[@lorekinyin]

@@melissayeboah1210his goal against United was thru the middle his a striker mate, if he played for ange he would be thru the middle, your like a moyes

[@melissayeboah1210]

@@lorekinyin If you watched the match very well you'll know what Moyes does with his front 3.. He rotates them to confuse the opponent. So if a team targets kudus or Bowen on the right, by the end of the match you'll find a different player in that position. Kudus started that match on the right, and switched to the forward and to the left. You have only seen a short video that is why you're being difficult😂😂. He run forward from the left and took the ball from Mainoo, passed to Paquetta who was now the striker, run forward to the middle because of Paquetta's position, collected the ball back from Paquetta and shot it. That is the tactics of the front 3 for westham. In the second half Bowen went to the right, Kudus on the left and Paquetta in front. He is not a striker but can play that role. You don't watch him more than we do brother 😊.

[@melissayeboah1210]

@@lorekinyin Watch their game against Newcastle, crystal palace, Arsenal and wolves and tell me where his goals came from 😂😂, not as a striker my dear. Most of his goals have been from the wings. When he gets the ball he runs forward from the wings and he's very fast so you might confuse his position for a striker, he's not. He's just that good that he doesn't spoil chances no matter the position he plays.

[@cozzy9208]

Yeah … but you didn’t did you? 🤣 stupid point to make

[@polaris7122]

The majority of his signings are not up to standard, and his tactical awareness is poor!

[@gemcommunityorg]

We signed tue wrong manager

[@Triple_X_X]

There's nothing like English football.. It's called Spanish Football being copied by prem 😂

[@loopvil369]

What?

[@jakefelix505]

Basically prem trynna play gootball like la ligas golden era which is true​@@loopvil369

[@mahirhussain4890]

What does this even mean ? Some proper weirdos on these comments

[@AJ-nd4nk]

Spanish football copied Dutch football.

[@mahirhussain4890]

@@AJ-nd4nk exactly and if you research history Dutch football copied Scottish football in the 1920s

[@HungryEatNow]

It's too late, it's rotten...

[@xshannonBAKER]

Sorry Alex… you were saying? Arsenal will beat West Ham… 😂😂😂

[@jamesgunn7]

No guarantee Kudus would have succeeded at United going straight from Ajax.

[@kennyKelvins]

Then you you don't know him,he is that good to survive anywhere.

[@eddieherrera5314]

He scored four in 2 games for a worse Ajax side He left and they battled relegation

[@jamesgunn7]

@@eddieherrera5314 The point being that United swallows good players up and ruins them. There is no guarantee that Kudus would be playing as well as he is now, for them. Use your brain.

[@jameshall6061]

​@@kennyKelvinsDon't have to know him,United in the recent past has been the undoing of many players.

[@eddieherrera5314]

@@jamesgunn7 use your brain too Has Bruno been swallowed What of Casemiro Kudus did well for an Ajax team worse than United

[@ryanjohnston7844]

Antony is terrible. One of ten hag top signings 😂

[@bobkatfan2013]

“I think Arsenal will beat them.” Oops

[@gavinlisk2292]

I'm a West ham fan and I can tell you that we are far from solid defensively!

[@kathymiller9709]

Arsenal actually lost to Fulham. 😂

[@matipasante8087]

Fulham beat Assnal 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@commandojackass]

0-2 :D

[@montanaprime]

Worry about your own teams, let the Moyes contract with us. You do not know what is good for us. Zip it

[@AnimeTravels740]

Correction Kudus snubbed us we went for him but he didn’t want to come !

[@melissayeboah1210]

Stop lying please. You never went for him🙄. You rather snubbed him and went for Mason Mount. He was there waiting for Man U and Chelsea, glad he stopped.

[@davidandrews8963]

I WAS SAYING YESTERDAY WTF IS WRONG WITH WEST HAM FANS ID BE ON CLOUD SHITSTREAM NOW IF I SUPPORTED THEM THEYRE DOING BRILLIANTLY WHO DO THEY WANT AS MANAGER. GOD ? LOL 🇺🇲🇬🇧♥️⚽🥅🏐🤣

[@xmazer22]

Wtf 🇺🇸 you calling it soccer 🤫 you know nothing 😂