He's good for maybe two or three quality crosses a game, which usually don't find anyone because no one's positioned inside, and one or two aggressive runs a game. Offers nothing otherwise. I'm surprised how many people have said he was better than Nani today, Nani looked far more of a threat with the ball then he did.
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so it's the manchester united way to win games now?
funny. i thought that was the way of every fecking team in the world.
funny. i thought that was the way of every fecking team in the world.
Like Cleverley, Anderson and a few others, Young has had his chance and not taken it. Needs to be moved on.
Due to his high wages and poor performances, Young will probably be on the books for a while.
You're right on two counts - 1) he was looking like our best player.........but no one usurped him for that "honour", so in fact, he was our best player and 2) ineffective he was.........but mainly because no one got into a decent position to meet his crosses. I disagree his crosses were all aimless - there was no penetration, no-one wanting to meet a ball in. Dire. But he was definitely one of the least dire.
Yep, don't see him taking a wage cut to reestablish his career, maybe harsh of me to judge him without knowing him.
If he had any ambition on a playing level, you would think he'd actively attempt to leave the club to kick start his career again. He'll only get released in two seasons time when his contract runs out, at which point he'll be 30 and have wasted two years of his career.
I felt sorry for him today, at least he was trying and kept wanting the ball. The coward on the other side (Nani) was hiding all game.
It saddens me that someone with his sheer lack of quality starts matches for us.
It saddens me that he's a Manchester United player full stop.
It saddens me that he's a Manchester United player full stop.
So what are the possible clauses in a player's contract, if he doesn't play upto expectations ? Can we just like that release him from the books or do we have to pay him wages for whatever time is left on his contract ??
When he started the match well I was hoping this would put him in the shop window. As good as the start was, putting in some dangerous crosses, its nothing amazing. Just nice to have some decent delivery for once.
I hope any onlooking scouts and managers left at half time, like Ashley Young basically did
I hope any onlooking scouts and managers left at half time, like Ashley Young basically did
Never has been good enough. We're supposedly the biggest team in the premiership yet somebody like Ashley Young is starting for us. Would he get in the squad of any of the other top 4 or 5 squads in Europe never mind the starting 11? Does he even start for England?
It's not his fault but we've really let our standards slide dramatically.
It's not his fault but we've really let our standards slide dramatically.
He tried but he just hasn't got any quality. Can't beat a man, can't cross. Aside from the occasional worldy what does he really contribute. He should've come off today instead of Nani. Started brightly but faded fast.
He could do it at Villa to be fair. Just the latest in a long line of players who freeze at a bigger club.
Basically we smuggle some hallucinogens into the food of any scouts at Old Trafford. That's the only way anyone will be ever interested in this non-footballer.
He was obviously trying really hard today, and has some quality but no where good enough as a starter for us. Squad player but on big wages for that. Also I feel like him like some others in the team are going to hinder the young players develop if they are holding up the space....
Yea, he was alright in his 1st season too. Dunno what's happened to him. He's had his chance now though. Should be moved on to whoever will take him. Newcastle?
Forget adding nothing, he subtracts from our play. He is the first player who should go after Anderson.
I was at the match today and he just looked poor. He got himself in some great and dangerous positions but like always he couldn't deliver much. He got booed when he was subbed off and I'm not surprised.
Not one single completed cross.
How the hell can a player on £130,000 not be able to cross a ball on target?
He gets paid more than:
Marco Reus only £35,000 a week
Isco only £40,000 a week
Ángel di María only £91,000 a week,
Karim Benzema only £100,000 a week
Alexis Sánchez only £70,000 a week
Andrés Iniesta only £115,000 a week
Neymar only £120,000 a week
I just want to cry....
Now Young isn't a great player and a coward imo and I've had that opinion sine early last year..but that is a lie - he completed 1 of 16! Give him his due!
Not one single completed cross.
How the hell can a player on £130,000 not be able to cross a ball on target?
He gets paid more than:
Marco Reus only £35,000 a week
Isco only £40,000 a week
Ángel di María only £91,000 a week,
Karim Benzema only £100,000 a week
Alexis Sánchez only £70,000 a week
Andrés Iniesta only £115,000 a week
Neymar only £120,000 a week
I just want to cry....
..plus if he's crossing and our CMs are jogging around the centre circle while our 1 forward struggles to get free of 2 CBs what do you expect? A lot of our problems begin with our midfield. To play a crossing game we need runners - we haven't had any bar Fellaini when he had a few good games vs dross mid-season.
Not one single completed cross.
How the hell can a player on £130,000 not be able to cross a ball on target?
He gets paid more than:
Marco Reus only £35,000 a week
Isco only £40,000 a week
Ángel di María only £91,000 a week,
Karim Benzema only £100,000 a week
Alexis Sánchez only £70,000 a week
Andrés Iniesta only £115,000 a week
Neymar only £120,000 a week
I just want to cry....
Not surprising that his crossing success rate is so poor - he never fecking looks up. Sofia Vergara could be completely naked in front of him and he'd still be staring down at his fecking feet.
It doesn't matter. He needs to pick his head up and aim at our players that are there (3-4 at a time in the box). He just aims nowhere. The ball either doesn't go past the first person, or goes past everyone.
He needs to aims just behind he defenders.
This problem is evident in all our fullbacks and wingers. WTF? I feel sorry for Moyes in the quality he had to deal with when he had the best LB crosser of the ball.
People complain why we cross, but we have to! They pack the midfield and we don't have the quality to go through the middle. ALL TOP TEAMS do this.
Hopefully Van Gaal will sort his mess out.
Ashley Young is simply stealing a living at this level. With his lack of quality, he should not be anywhere near our first team.
Young, like Valencia and Nani are roughly in their late 20's, but all three are past their best already. Young built his reputation on 2 or 3 great seasons at Villa but apart from a good debut season has struggled with fitness and form, and will probably not rediscover it bar some miracle. Valencia and Nani also had great moments but have withered since.
Their stars have fallen and we must look to how we can replace them with better quality players!
Their stars have fallen and we must look to how we can replace them with better quality players!
fecking hell lads his wage goes up every week! He's definitely not on 130k 
Not one single completed cross.
Young should have been banned from the 18-man squad a very long time ago. He's a sorry excuse of a Man Utd player and should have been shipped as quickly as Veron ended up being shipped away when it was clear he couldn't make it.
He's absolutely atrocious. It's a real shame nobody will pay to take him off us.
@mufcwarm92
He's on over 100k a week.
Telegraph - 120k http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-signing-Aston-Villa-winger-Ashley-Young.html
Guardian - 120k http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2012/dec/31/theo-walcott-arsenal-new-contract
Mirror - 130k http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/new...e-interest-Manchester-City-article746001.html
Either way, it's a fecking joke.
@mufcwarm92
He's on over 100k a week.
Telegraph - 120k http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-signing-Aston-Villa-winger-Ashley-Young.html
Guardian - 120k http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2012/dec/31/theo-walcott-arsenal-new-contract
Mirror - 130k http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/new...e-interest-Manchester-City-article746001.html
Either way, it's a fecking joke.
fecking hell lads his wage goes up every week! He's definitely not on 130k
Every week since when? Thats what it was reported when we signed him.
That was fecking pathetic. Someone who boos one of their own players is immediately identifiable as a cnut.
No it wasn't. It was originally reported around 90k, then largely agreed on as 118k (still sounds a little unlikely). Not sure where you've plucked 130k from.
#HunchbackYoung
He's obviously not good enough for us, but he'd be brilliant for a team with aerial threats in the box, playing a simpler game. West Ham should really go for him if they're keeping Allardyce.
They can have Young, Fellaini and Valencia.
Sadly, thats pretty much the level for those three.
I'm not ready to give up on Fellaini, though he might require a lobotomy.
Valencia has a lot of positive qualities and could help the right team. He works hard, is a consistent short passer and has pace.
RWB for Juve, splitting time with Lichtsteiner, playing RW on a team that plays mostly on the counter, or doing Ramires' role for Brazil under Dunga where you're an RCM that basically covers the right side with your pace (along with a pacey FB) allowing the team to play 3 attacking players.
RWB for Juve, splitting time with Lichtsteiner, playing RW on a team that plays mostly on the counter, or doing Ramires' role for Brazil under Dunga where you're an RCM that basically covers the right side with your pace (along with a pacey FB) allowing the team to play 3 attacking players.
What the feck is going on with the wage structure at this club!?
Some of our supporters are an embarrassment, not our best player but he's still one of us.
We have to cross you say... yet none of our players (CMs especially) actively try to get to them... are our 1 or 2 strikers supposed to get to them surrounded by 3- 4 defenders? The CMs take so long to get the ball out wide it's pointless - they take long to pass adn don't trail play to score.
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