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Manchester United fans react angrily to Ashley Young's one year contract extension

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 ...
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Why Emre Can's decision to leave Liverpool for Juventus have backfired

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April 28, 2018 was the day Emre Can decided his time at Liverpool was over. He felt Jurgen Klopp's Reds weren't good enough to win trophies neither do they've the luck needed to win it final. 

 The 2018 Champions League defeat to Real Madrid was heart wrenching remembering how it all ended. Loris Karius high profile mistake condemned Liverpool to their fourth successive defeat in a cup final. T

 That defeat was Jurgen Klopp's seventh defeat in a cup competition since he won the 2012 DFK-Pokal with Borrusia Dortmund. 

 For a while, leaving Liverpool was justifiable, Emre Can saw Manchester City dominating the English league while predicting Liverpool will crumble just like Tottenham Hotspur who are yet to get themselves after losing the Champions League final. 
Emre Can wasn't the only player that thought that way, Philippe Coutinho also decided he had to go to a bigger and better club which he did and we all know how that ended. 
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But, the green is not always greener at the other side and Emre Can now knows he made the biggest mistake in ditching Liverpool for Juventus. 

 At Juventus he is disposable, Maurizio Sarri want more than just buccaneering runs and aggressive play in midfield, he wants a player who is tactically and technically good. A player who knows how to keep the ball, play short passes, orchestrate the tempo of the game with his trickery and intelligence.  

 Emre Can is not that type of player, he is more of Jordan Henderson than Christian Ericksen and far inferior to the likes of Frenkie de Jong or Luka Modric. This is one of the reason he dropped him for the group stage of the Champions League. 

 Simply put, Can's style of play is not good enough for the likes of  Maurzio Sarri, Pep Guardiola or Ernesto Valverde. But good enough for the likes of Jurgen Klopp, Diego Simone and Massimiliano Allegri- managers who want runners in midfield and not artists. 

 Painfully, the 26-year-old now knows he has limitations, he is not a world class midfielder but a good combative midfielder. 

 He would certainly leave Juventus this summer and hopefully, he will join a club where he can harness his strength and not necessary about winning trophies. 



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