Manchester United must do better than Ashley Young – English Premier League: Summer transfer window
Recently summer transfer speculation news has linked Aston Villa’s winger, Ashley Young to Manchester United as Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson has set his sights on reinforcing his squad in order to go one step further in the UEFA Champions
League. Manchester United won the English Premier League in the 2010-2011 season and made it to the final of the UEFA Champions League. However, the English giants failed to win the Champions League as Pep Guardiola’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 gained an emphatic 3-1 win over
the Red Devils.
United’s main weakness in their title winning campaign has been their midfield area. Whilst it is believed that Young is more likely to provide reinforcements in that department of the squad for Manchester United, his credentials
as a top class footballer are still under question to say the least. Playing for Aston Villa, Young has frequently taken part in the qualification stages of the Europa League but apart from that the ex-Watford winger remains relatively inexperienced at the
highest level of European football. The Englishman’s statistics in the Premier League do not read a pretty sight as well.
In his 34 league matches for Aston Villa in the 2010-2011 season, Young netted eight goals and contributed with ten assists to their league campaign. Ashley’s statistics pale in comparison to Luis http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nani-c27299’s assist tally and goal tally
at Old Trafford, the Portuguese winger netted nine goals and also assisted seventeen goals in the Premier League. Young will obviously have to battle against Luis Nani and Luis http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Antonio-Valencia-c6345 for a spot in the Red Devils’ Premier League squad.
This might be an unfavourable situation for the Englishman who is already finding it hard to claim a starting place in the English national team starting eleven despite playing regularly for Aston Villa. Sir Alex Ferguson might
be thinking about fielding Young as a central winger, a new role that Young has come to perform at the international level and also at club level under http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gerard-c14664 Houllier at Villa.
However, if Ferguson really needs an out and out creative force to lead his midfield than United have better options in shape of Luka Modric and Wesley Sneijder. Modric has lately warmed up to the transfer gossip speculating him
to Manchester United as he stated that he will be open to a move away from White Hart Lane if the right offer comes along. Nonetheless, there is a situation in which Young will be welcome at Old Trafford but to accommodate the Englishman, Ferguson will have
to part ways with either Nani or http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863.
Selling Luis Nani or Antonio Valencia is something that will be suicidal at best for Manchester United as both the players are already settled at the club along with the fact that they are relatively young and thus can still improve
on their displays at Old Trafford. Admittedly both the wingers have not impressed in the UEFA Champions League but in domestic competitions, Nani and Valencia are the two of the best wingers in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749.
Therefore, Manchester United should refrain from splashing large amount of cash on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ashley-Young-c6813. They don’t really require another winger with Nani and Valencia both in sparkling form and complimented by the presence of Park Ji
Sung and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Luka-Modric-c22857’s mould rather than keeping a steady eye on Villa’s wide player.
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