Manchester United are under pressure to drop the £84m ahead Antony after Brazil withdrew the footballer from their newest squad following severe allegations – made by his former girlfriend, Gabriela Cavallin – which embrace bodily assault and the declare that the participant threatened to kill her and attacked her with a glass.
The Brazilian web site UOL reported the accusations – which Antony referred to as “false” – on Monday, a fortnight after Mason Greenwood was compelled to depart Manchester United regardless of rape fees towards him being dropped. Brazil’s Seleção will now put together for his or her World Cup qualifiers towards Bolivia and Peru with out Antony.
The Brazilian Football Confederation assertion learn: “As a result of the facts that have come to light, and which need to be investigated, and in order to safeguard the supposed victim, the player, and the Brazilian national team the CBF have withdrawn [him] from the squad.”
UOL’s exposé contained a collection of allegations from Cavallin, a DJ and social media influencer with almost half one million Instagram followers. Antony and Cavallin turned a pair in 2021, earlier than his 2022 transfer from Ajax to Manchester United.
Cavallin, who supplied UOL with images and WhatsApp messages, alleged the São Paulo-born participant had first attacked her on 1 June final yr, when she was pregnant with their baby and on vacation in Brazil. She claimed Antony, who’s 23, turned offended after recognizing her in a nightclub he was additionally at, and “put her in the car, repeatedly assaulted her and threatened to throw her out of the car at high speed”.
Cavallin advised UOL: “He said that if I wasn’t going to be with him, I wouldn’t be with anyone … I was shaking with fear.”
A second alleged assault allegedly passed off in Manchester on 15 January this yr – at some point after United’s 2-1 victory towards Manchester City. According to the report, it left Cavallin needing medical consideration in her room on the four-star Hyatt Regency lodge. “He punched me in the breast and my silicon [implant] flipped over,” she advised the web site, including: “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.’” {A photograph} confirmed what Cavallin stated was a head wound she had sustained within the assault.
According to UOL’s report, a 3rd alleged assault passed off on 8 May this yr when Cavallin claims the participant “tried to attack her face with a glass” throughout an argument. While making an attempt to defend herself, Cavallin stated she had suffered a deep wound to a finger on her proper hand which left the bone uncovered. As she scrambled to ebook a flight again to Brazil to get away from the participant, Cavallin wrote a message to the journey agent – supplied to UOL – that stated: “I need to get out of here before he kills me.”
The accusations – which have been reported to police in São Paulo and Manchester – sparked outrage in Brazil.
In an announcement, Antony stated: “I can say with tranquility … that I am innocent of the accusations that have been made. My relationship with Ms Gabriela was tumultuous, with insults [made] on both sides, but never did I commit any act of physical aggression.”
The Manchester United participant claimed his accuser had repeatedly modified her story over the alleged assaults. “Therefore, I vehemently deny these accusations and [would like] to make it clear that I remain willing to clear up whatever is necessary to Brazilian authorities.”
Other WhatsApp messages supplied to Brazilian information shops by Antony’s former girlfriend painted the participant in a poisonous mild. “You and me are done. I hope you die. Get fucked,” he wrote in a single message. In one other WhatsApp message the footballer appeared to apologise for “kicking and attacking” Cavallin.
In an announcement to the Telegraph, Greater Manchester Police stated it was “aware of the allegations made and inquiries remain ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding this report. We will not be commenting any further at this time”.
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