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 ...
Riyad Mahrez has admitted he is disappointed with spending more time on the bench rather than on the pitch.
The 28-year-old joined City in a then club-record fee of $60m from Leicester City in the summer of 2018 but have found competition for places much tougher than expected.
He is forced to compete with Portuguese superstar Bernando Silva and Germany's wonder-kid Leroy Sane.
Last season, Mahrez managed 27 appearances of which 13 of those games were from the bench. This season, he has started just five games out of 12 and against Liverpool, he was an unused substitute.
Asked about his time at City, Mahrez said: "At the end of the season, i spent several matches on the bench", he told the Mirror.
"Mentally, it was difficult to live with. But in training, i put everything into it because i still had this aim with Algeria. I said to myself: 'Go for it, at one-moment Pep {Guardiola} will need you."
Asked about his relationship with Pep Guardiola, Mahrez said: "He's really very simple.
"He is a winner, he is there to make us progress. Guardiola, he'll explain everything to us, decrypt everything, from A to Z, with the aim of facilitating the match.
"He is focused on the game, i love meetings with the coach. The video with him is fascinating because we constantly learn. The dressing room of a big club is another reality. You have to fight non-stop. Being relaxed isn't tolerated."
Last season, Mahrez created history by becoming the first player to win the English domestic treble along with the Africa Cup of Nation with Algeria.
Mahrez scored 3 goals with 2 assists to end Algerian's 25-year wait to win a Continental trophy.
He added: "I'm looking to do more because if you don't, you know someone else will play instead of you. To make a good match, it is not enough anymore, it is necessary to make very, very good matches all the time. That's Manchester City".
Mahrez is currently with the Algeria national team and will be contention to start agaisnt Zambia in Group H of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers on Thursday night.
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