Antony says farewell to Betis: 'Felt like home'

Antony has thanked Real Betis for helping to "find a piece" of himself arsenic helium comes to the extremity of a six-month indebtedness spell that sees him instrumentality to Manchester United.

The Brazil winger made 26 appearances for Betis, scoring 9 goals, successful a mostly palmy indebtedness move. His last crippled was Wednesday's 4-1 defeat to Chelsea successful the UEFA Conference League final.

"Today is the time to convey 1 of the astir beauteous chapters of my life," Antony said successful a station connected Instagram.

"From the archetypal measurement into this club, I felt thing different. It was similar coming home, similar uncovering a portion of myself that I thought I had lost. With you, I started to grin again.

"Thank you for welcoming maine arsenic 1 of your own. Thank you for giving maine backmost the joyousness of playing football. And convey you for reminding maine wherefore I fell successful emotion with the game.

"My home, my people, convey you truthful much."