People are being hyperbolic. He’s still clearly better than Dalot, who would have been completely crucified by Di Maria and hasn’t been able to create anything offensively. We’ve had three managers who made a terrible, terrible job. It’s not Ashley Young’s fault that we don’t have anyone better. And I honestly don’t understand what he did that was so overwhelmingly terrible. He played a decent first half in my eyes and wasn’t by any means amongst our worst players today.
And he probably is the captain because he’s professional, experienced and vocal. For me the extreme depression with our games stopped with Mourinho and I really don’t understand the excessive negativity towards players that play for us simply because we don’t have anyone better.
We lost but in a world where Jones and McTominay get new contracts, I don’t think Young is the one everyone should be slating.
Our transfer activity has been building us a mid-table squad for more or less 10 years, we’re not gonna transform into a PL or UCL winning side in one summer, so players like Young are still useful while we’re looking for younger and better replacements. For a competitive match we have to choose the best available option, and like it or not, for RB that is Ashley Young.