Manchester United captain Ashley Young will not be joining Inter Milan next summer neither will he be signing a pre-contract agreement with other clubs having be given a one-year contract extension. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a huge fan of the 34-year-old and feels his presence at the club will be useful to the younger players in the team. Although, the decision to keep him at the club haven't gone down well with fan who vented angrily on different social medias. Some of the tweet reads; "How the might have fallen.. " Another aggrieved post reads: "The more Man U fans want to escape the more the owners give them pain". Another reads: "This Ole and Co. are really taking us for granted. You can't be renewing Ashley's contract while there are real loopholes to cover.. it's getting out of hand". Sad ones goes this way: "Why, just why would you do that? He is part of the dead wood that they need clearing out "This ...
uud van Nistelrooy assertion that Lionel Messi deserves the Ballon d'Or ahead of other nominated players is absolutely wrong.
Lionel Messi is indeed a world class player, a dream player every team in the world will want to have but, last season wasn't his best campaign. He did score a respectable tally of goals -50 goals in 54 appearances- which is phenomenal but winning the Ballon d'Or takes more than that this days.
In the grandest of stage, Messi failed to light it up. He failed in Europe {the Champions League} and Brazil {the Copa America}. In both competition, Messi struggled to make any meaningful impact.
Barcelona were blown away by Liverpool at Anfield despite arriving the ground with a 3-0 win with Messi scoring one of the best free-kicks in the tournaments history. And with Argentina who finished 3rd in the Copa America, Messi found the net just once.
Dani Alves 34, was the player of the Tournament and not Messi who was red carded against Chile and later, banned for two matches by Conmobol for saying the competition was rigged to favour Brazil.
Messi's reputation as a big game player always seems to hid one of his biggest weakness which is, he shrinks to mediocrity when donning the blue and white jersey of Argentina. Its seems like wherever he sees Argentina jersey his confidence flies out the window..
Against Brazil in the Copa America final, Messi was just to average to influence the game and many will be forgiven to think, that player that looked like Messi was a impostor or probably a clone.. He very very poor.
Last season wasn't his best year and Van Nistelrooy must learn to accept that other players did play remarkably well for their club and country.. Van Dijk, Sadio Mane, De Ligt, Kylian Mbappe and even his biggest rival Cristiano Ronaldo did exceptionally well.
Ronaldo was able to win the Seria A and the Coppa Italia with Juventus and the Nations League with Portugal.. Emphatic!.
Put it this way, Messi scored loads of goals for Barcelona but failed to win the trophies that really matter- the Champions League and the Copa America..
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