Ashley Young (Goodbye and thank you)

[danno]

He will know Dyche from his Watford days possibly?  I think I read something along those lines when he signed for us as I think Burnley wanted him too.

[brontebilly]

No offence to Young but with resigning likes of Coleman, getting in Young on a free...Everton are already bunking in for another season long relegation battle.

[AV84]

No offence to Young but with resigning likes of Coleman, getting in Young on a free...Everton are already bunking in for another season long relegation battle.

They've been linked with Saint Maximin and I saw reports yesterday saying they'd had a bid accepted for Gnonto from Leeds. I mean, the rumours are massive, but the actual done deals are less so, so we'll see.

[Pete3206]

My Everton supporting colleague was less than impressed with the news. He was even less impressed when I informed him that a 38 year old was now their best player.

I meant it as well.

[PeterWithesShin]

I can understand why Everton fans aren't impressed. Where does he fit into their squad of title challenging world class stars?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I was in a pub (The Globe) opposite Baker Street station. There were a couple of Evertonians sat behind me. When they scored their equaliser, they came over and celebrated in front of me. When Young got the winner, I reciprocated and then some. Pretty amazed I didn’t get a kicking.

I did the same, waving Arsenal fans out the pub one Christmas many moons ago. All the Man City fans who had just returned from their game were sure it was going to kick off.

It was probably their first experience of Arsenal being a club of bottlers.

[Russ aka Big Nose]

Good luck to him. He did well for us last season and was a positive influence.

Hopefully we will bring in someone who is serious competition to Cash over the next few years, if not an obvious upgrade.

Slightly strange that Everton are signing someone aged 38 to compete with their current 34 year-old right back, though f*ck 'em. They are probably in my top three I want to see relegated. UTV.

[LeeB]

Everton had easily the shittest full backs in the league last season That Ukranian lad, God bless him it must be hard with what's going on back home but it doesn't change the fact he's fucking useless at football, and Coleman is well past his sell by date.

Young will be their best full back without doubt, and will be on set piece duty you'd think, a key component in a Dyche team.

[Toronto Villa]

From Ash

Firstly I’d like to thank the players, all of you know what I said I wanted to achieve with you and after all the hard work we managed to achieve that!

Secondly thanks to the managers and staff that believed and trusted in me, you know who you are!

And finally to you the fans who welcomed me back with open arms almost as if I had never left. I wish I was given the chance to say goodbye properly and show my appreciation to you, but I wasn’t given the answers to my questions before the last game of the season. Villa Park will always be a special place to me. UTV. See You Next Season…… Age really is just a number……

https://twitter.com/youngy18/status/1679061841157275648?s=46&t=0-BUXD66ovTcofwrbTW4Ag

[Drummond]

From Ash

Firstly I’d like to thank the players, all of you know what I said I wanted to achieve with you and after all the hard work we managed to achieve that!

Secondly thanks to the managers and staff that believed and trusted in me, you know who you are!

And finally to you the fans who welcomed me back with open arms almost as if I had never left. I wish I was given the chance to say goodbye properly and show my appreciation to you, but I wasn’t given the answers to my questions before the last game of the season. Villa Park will always be a special place to me. UTV. See You Next Season…… Age really is just a number……

https://twitter.com/youngy18/status/1679061841157275648?s=46&t=0-BUXD66ovTcofwrbTW4Ag

Ooh, that's a bit of a dig. Club is bigger than the player I'm afraid Ash.

[Axl Rose]

From Ash

Firstly I’d like to thank the players, all of you know what I said I wanted to achieve with you and after all the hard work we managed to achieve that!

Secondly thanks to the managers and staff that believed and trusted in me, you know who you are!

And finally to you the fans who welcomed me back with open arms almost as if I had never left. I wish I was given the chance to say goodbye properly and show my appreciation to you, but I wasn’t given the answers to my questions before the last game of the season. Villa Park will always be a special place to me. UTV. See You Next Season…… Age really is just a number……

https://twitter.com/youngy18/status/1679061841157275648?s=46&t=0-BUXD66ovTcofwrbTW4Ag

We'll no doubt be seeing Ash in our first home game.

All the best to him.

[Risso]

Little undercurrent of things not being handled very well there. It did look a bit shit that on the last day of the season the Villa pitchside announcer was wasking him if he wanted to stay, Young said he did but it was up to the club, then a few days later it's announced he's leaving.

[Drummond]

Little undercurrent of things not being handled very well there. It did look a bit shit that on the last day of the season the Villa pitchside announcer was wasking him if he wanted to stay, Young said he did but it was up to the club, then a few days later it's announced he's leaving.

I'd say it wasn't handled in the way he wanted, rather than not very well. My guess is that Emery wanted focus on the game, not on contracts etc. If he'd told him he wasn't being kept on, do you think he'd have performed the same way? He may have tried to hard and got carried away, or the opposite.

[Sexual Ealing]

A lovely passive-aggressive farewell message. He's a player who did his job, often pretty well, and now he's gone to another club. It happens. Like when he fucked off to Man Utd, for instance.

[Toronto Villa]

He is right to feel however he wants about how it was handled but airing it in public isn’t cool. There was need to have a public dig at the club. He chose to leave us when he could have stayed. We gave him a chance to have another shot at the PL. That stuff he could have kept behind the scenes. It’s disappointing he’s decided to take a dig publicly.