I know it was first-class opposition, but Young was really crap when he came on I think. We are not like those clubs who say things like 'we are not judged by our performances against teams like Manchester United'. For us, games against the likes of Bayern actually tells us a lot about who is capable of taking us to where we need/want to be. Young's cameo confirmed to me that he cannot be expected to have any sort of impact on games of this kind.
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Do you really need a bayern game to confirm that ashley young is shit?
The original meaning of performance is "accomplishment". So yes, fitting indeed.
so according to Whoscored he has made 8 accurate crosses from 68 attempts. This excludes corners. Makes 0.9 key passes a game. Basically he is useless yet his name never comes up when the press is talking about Moyes' forthcoming clear out of underperforming players. Even if we spend 200 million in the summer it won't improve us if our spanking new midfield maestros have to pass the ball to Young.
There hasnt been any united players who I actively hate - However when seeing him on TV with his arrogant face, conceited demeanour and lack of a footballing brain, he has become the first.
If true thats fecking woeful.
It's quite worrying that he's not been linked to a single club yet as we near the end of the season, yet there's speculation of some of our actual talent leaving. I do like him as a squad player, but the last thing I want to see is a young talent like Kagawa and Hernandez leave the club and Young still lingering about.
It's actually 18 successful in 111 attempts. (16%)
Valenica also has 0.9 Key Passes per game and has completed just 17 of 96 crosses (17%) compared to Young's 16%.
So combined they have 55 appearances between them in which they have:
6 Goals.
4 Assists.
45 Completed Crosses.
249 Attempted Crosses.
Woeful.
What gets me about AY is the amount of wages he's supposedly on. Our problem remains that as much as DM may want rid of him, who would buy him? He isn't going anywhere as they won't pay his wages. We are stuck with him.
I doubt any manager could get a good return from him. Sad really, as he did look good for his first month.
I doubt any manager could get a good return from him. Sad really, as he did look good for his first month.
I really like Valencia well at least i like the player he was, but those stats are unreal, a good start to this re-building we are supposed to be undertaking would be to sell or release these two. Passengers at this stage.
He is on £6.24 million pounds a year. I cannot see any club paying him that, I can see him volunteering himself to rot in the reserves however, worse, I can see Moyes being tempted to play him from time to time and after several poor games, just as David is thinking of dropping him, he will score a screamer.
We have two more seasons of him before his contract runs out but I would sooner pay him off to leave. I think spending £12m of our transfer budget to get rid of him so Moyes cannot play him will be money well spent, David will be forced to play Januzaj on the left then. This will only improve the team!
Come to think about it today; extremely weird signing by Fergie. £18m. Jesus!
I genuinely don't know what SAF was thinking when he bought Young. £18million and £100k a week. Ridiculous. But, that said, other than RvP and DDG (who were obvious purchases as soon as they became available) I don't think many of SAF's signings in his last two years were particularly good. Kagawa, Buttner, Zaha.
Indeed, I would be pretty much in complete despair if I saw even two of Nani/Hernandez/Kagawa leave only for Valencia/Young to stay. Unfortunately I fear that it may well be the case on both counts.
Bit harsh to label Kagawa a bad signing. He's a talented player who hasn't quite found his place in the team; might not have been as good as we hoped (yet) but there was nothing wrong with the decision to buy him. Also, bit early for Zaha as well. Büttner, on the other hand, was a strange one indeed. Surely we could have done better than that for a backup LB.
Phil Jones was another one from that period, strangely also a bit early to say how that will work out given he's probably here for the long term, but certainly not a bad purchase. Henriquez - impossible to say yet, Powell - the same.
We paid tuppence for Buttner though, didn't we?
I'm not sure he understood what they meant by "get better soon".
I feel sorry for Young. It's clear some people here dislike him because they resent him perceiving to have taken over from the Caf's Beloved.
I thought he played well vs West Ham and got off to a decent start today with one or two crosses early in the game, for the brief time he was on.
I thought he played well vs West Ham and got off to a decent start today with one or two crosses early in the game, for the brief time he was on.
His son has joined Arsenal, maybe he'll follow in the summer? 
It's certainly brave of him to be on twitter considering how bad people are at abusing even the good players.
Kagawa was and is a class player, and was signed for only £12m (a fact many forget). He's shown enough to be more hen that already, even if he hasn't been great since he came for various reasons, but he's getting better. No way you could say he was a poor signing. Buttner was signed for like £3m as well was he not? Don't expect much from a 3m signing and he's done alright I guess for the price.
Zaha and young were shite signings though. People can say give zaha time but he just seems to lack real talent like januzaj, lacks the right mentality and lacks football intelligence.
Yeah, that's the reason he gets stick.
He has to go down as one of Sir Alex's worst ever signings when you also take into consideration his wages.
I'd love for fergie to be asked about that quote where he said that we signed young to bridge the gap with Barcelona.
I'd love for fergie to be asked about that quote where he said that we signed young to bridge the gap with Barcelona.
This hand injury couldn't have been as bad as described. My old man did his ligaments and had to go under the knife to make sure it healed correctly. Given that it's only been 5 days...he couldn't have possibly had surgery, recovered, travelled to Germany and be declared fit.
Moyes trying to worry us that our Ashley was hurt. I'm so unbelievably happy he's fit..
Moyes trying to worry us that our Ashley was hurt. I'm so unbelievably happy he's fit..
Mind games, he knows how highly Guardiola rates him.
Please get rid of this little turd nugget.
Better than Valencia at least.
He's been alright today. Mata and Nani have both been worse.
He's been alright today. Mata and Nani have both been worse.
Fergies worst signing. £18m on his final year of contract.
10 crosses in one half! One trick pony unfortunately. Thought he started well and then just went back to the player we've seen all too often.
It doesn't matter how he plays, but he makes the whole team shite just by being in it. How any number of managers fail to see that is beyond me.
Takes a player on, then doesn't even look where he's crossing it. So annoying.
This article about Young on the Telegraph is just
'Ashley Young is on a par with Lionel Messi'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...hley-Young-is-on-a-par-with-Lionel-Messi.html
'Ashley Young is on a par with Lionel Messi'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...hley-Young-is-on-a-par-with-Lionel-Messi.html
I thought he was our best attacking player in that half, by far. He's had a good game IMO.
Was just going to write this. He gets in good positions sometimes and then just hits it into a space. If there is a defender in that space it doesn't matter.
Agreed.
He's looked the most encouraging of our attack four, but a few poor crosses and everyone will be slating him as usual.
He can dribble but in the same time almost as accurate as Downing.
He doesn't look where to cross, I can't believe no one told him how to perform these last passes and crosses.
We can't afford to have him in the squad, next season. Sporadic squad player at it's best for a team that SHOULD be aiming for top of the table and cups.
He doesn't look where to cross, I can't believe no one told him how to perform these last passes and crosses.
We can't afford to have him in the squad, next season. Sporadic squad player at it's best for a team that SHOULD be aiming for top of the table and cups.
He is a winger who can't cross the ball and does nothing except surrender possession.
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