Will Antony be dropped from Manchester United after assault allegations? Player removed from Brazil national team

Antony has been accused of threatening to kill his girlfriend and Manchester United face calls to axe the player after Brazil dropped the winger.

Manchester United are under pressure to drop winger Antony, after his ex-girlfriend made allegations that he attacked her and threatened to kill her.

The Brazilian Football Confederation have already done so, saying “in light of the facts which came to light on Monday (04/09) concerning Manchester United player Antony, which must be investigated, and in order to safeguard the alleged victim, the player, the Brazilian national team and the CBF, the organization informs that the athlete has been removed from the Brazilian national team.”

The serious accusations come as Antony was set to join up with the Brazil national team for a series of World Cup qualifiers against Peru and Bolivia. The £84 million winger has labelled the claims “false”.

Gabriela Cavallin, a DJ and social media influencer, started a relationship with Antony in 2021. She provided Brazilian website UOL with photographs and WhatsApp messages which allege that the winer attacked her in June of last year. She claimed the player “put her in the car, repeatedly assaulted her and threatened to throw her out of the car at high speed.”

The second attack, Cavallin says, came this year, in January. “He punched me in the breast and my silicon [implant] flipped over,” she said, “he said, ‘I didn’t mean to hurt you, it was an accident, it wasn’t a punch – I just held you against the wall.”

There was a third attack that Cavallin says ocurred in May this year, in which Antony allegedly “tried to attack her face with a glass” in the middle of an argument. Cavallin wrote to the travel agent as she intended to hastily book a