{"id":36146,"date":"2025-09-01T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36146\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:44:08","slug":"red-devils-reach-agreement-to-sell-flop-as-ornstein-reveals-50-sell-on-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36146\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Devils &#8216;reach agreement&#8217; to sell flop as Ornstein reveals &#8216;50% sell-on clause&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd have reached an agreement to sell Antony to Real Betis before the transfer deadline, according to The Athletic\u2019s David Ornstein.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/every-premier-league-transfer-release-completed-summer-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>spent around \u00a3200m on the signings of Matheus Cunha, Benjamin Sesko and Bryan Mbeumo this summer<\/strong><\/a> as they look to give Ruben Amorim the tools for a better season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Man Utd<\/strong><\/a> finished 15th in the Premier League last campaign under Amorim with only four sides scoring fewer goals than the Red Devils.<\/p>\n<p>And now the Red Devils have managed to improve their attack, they are looking to offload some of the players who failed to help them last season.<\/p>\n<p>Antony was sent out on loan to Real Betis for the second half of last season, where he was a success, with the Spanish side wanting to bring him back to La Liga before the transfer window shuts.<\/p>\n<p>After an agreement was struck last week for Antony, Betis released a statement claiming that they had withdrawn their offer for the Brazilian as they couldn\u2019t \u2018afford\u2019 the deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/transfer-deadline-day-summer-2025-gossip-news-done-deals-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transfer Deadline Day, summer 2025: Follow it LIVE with F365\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement read: \u2018There is no agreement for Antony and we have withdrawn the offer. We can\u2019t afford the fee and the amounts that Manchester United must instead pay the player before the transfer\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But now Ornstein insists that a fresh deal has been \u2018agreed\u2019 over a\u00a0a \u20ac25m package for the sale of Antony to Real Betis, which \u2018will include a 50% sell-on clause\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6587455\/2025\/09\/01\/real-betis-agree-e25m-antony-deal-with-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ornstein added<\/a>: \u2018The Athletic\u00a0reported\u00a0on Friday that United had agreed a fee in principle with Betis for Antony to return to the club at which he spent the second half of the 2024-25 campaign, but the deal was in the balance amid tension over how they settle the proposed multi-million pound salary reduction Antony would face by leaving Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018United will now make no further payment to the player.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE MANCHESTER UNITED COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong><br \/><strong>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-romano-martinez-wants-join-aston-villa-deadline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League star tells club he wants to join Man Utd before the deadline \u2013 Romano<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-final-decision-kobbie-mainoo-transfer-shock-twist-bizarre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd make final decision on Kobbie Mainoo transfer amid shock \u2018twist\u2019 in \u2018bizarre\u2019 situation<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-avoid-further-humiliation-tottenham-spursy-blackout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man United narrowly avert banterpocalypse but this was no corner turned for Amorim and co<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amorim hinted that Man Utd could dip into the transfer market to ensure they are well covered in all areas after the injuries to Mason Mount and Cunha over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Man Utd boss told reporters: \u201cIt was hard to lose Cunha and Mason Mount, because Mason Mount played 30 minutes with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m concerned about that, because they are so important for us. We will see. I don\u2019t know [how they are], I don\u2019t know. We will check them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need those guys really bad to be really competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Utd have reached an agreement to sell Antony to Real Betis before the transfer deadline, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[24853,18,794,19,17,20,5,795,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-36146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-antony","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-manchester-united","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}