Ashley Young

I do think it was simulation on the penalty, and I do think it was simulation on the penalty against Roma.

People get really aggy about this, but Ashley Young used to do it.

Evan Hazard used to do it.

It's clever.

There's all of these little things that caveat into that.

And it's not like when we sold Dwight York, Ashley Young, Gareth Barry, James Milner, Christian Menteke, where we couldn't... offer them what they wanted to go out there and achieve, we're a completely different club, so it does frustrate me when I see fans going, yeah, but Suzuki could go to, like, we're not selling them because we're not ambitious, we're selling some of them because it's just what we've got to do to grow and climb and move in the direction that the football club needs to grow and move into.

Like, if you said to Emery, would you want to sell those players? Of course he wouldn't want to sell them, but we've got to do it to be able to move forward and to close that gap as a football club while our off-field revenue isn't there.

Like, it's kind of like...

But was that a Ferguson problem, or was that because the writing was already on the wall in terms of the Glazers not prioritising sporting success?

I look at the talent I played against in that Manchester United squad, and you look at the players that were left, was it Carrick, Rooney and Ashley Young, when they talk about the players that were left, They weren't good enough, was they? They were never going to go with the Premier League.

Do

you think that just underscores how good Sir Alex Ferguson was in his last few years as the Manchester United manager? That's why they finished 7th, didn't they? Does it also

And I just hope the club doesn't try and hide behind something or use Carrick as a shield like it seems like they're continuing to do.

Like Ashley Young, you know, he spoke on Prime before the game and he was saying that they'd requested an interview with club officials and been ignored.

And I thought that's pretty...

Like, you get club across the industry, you get an opportunity to speak, still don't take it.

to know Fergie a bit years ago well he went into Carrington once and went have you thought about this we're doing this with Alan Smith and he just said the relationship was never ever the same he just looked at me like I was a piece of shit like who on earth are you a school teacher to tell me what to do and then not long after he started using Alan Smith in midfield yeah yeah it's a good idea that's the day before the Roma game actually

when I was Do you know what I loved? Just really quickly, speaking about people that were near the dugout, do you see the clip of Nicky Butt, Wayne Rooney and Ashley Young celebrating the Cunya goal right next to Carrick? Carrick is instantly like, who do I...

And he puts on the lip, doesn't he, to kind of shore things up a bit.

So he's actually...

I was thinking it's unusual.

I suppose Edward Wood got quite a bit of this, didn't he? But it probably is unusual that an executive is getting this much attention, even them discussing it.

Ashley Young, I think, mentioned it on Amazon Prime before the game.

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