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23rd April 2019
08:43pm BST

"Ashley Young has been at the club 10 years, paid very little for him in terms of the market norm, he’s been absolutely work ethic all the way through.
"Don’t pick on Ashley Young.
"He’s been asked to play at left-back and at right-back and at left wing-back and right wing-back to cover up for the mismanagement of the recruitment.
"So the idea that you turn on Ashley Young… he’s the last person I would turn on.
"He’s the one who is actually, to be fair, going out there week in week out, playing in a position that’s relatively foreign to him in the last two or three seasons, he’s absolutely giving his all.
"He’s hurting on the pitch, I can see it.
"And yet, the focus in the last week has been Ashley Young – he’s not this, he’s not that.
"That is the wrong place to start. Get away from him, start with the ones who set the influence in the dressing room, the ones who have got the capability to be the best in the world."Explore more on these topics: