Ashley Young - reported wage 17:32 - Jul 23 with 3324 views | Litfc00 | Reliable Watford source - @Louorns on X says that Town are offering a total package of 50k a week. Young turned down 40k a week at Everton, and around 20k a week and captaincy at Watford. |  | | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:34 - Jul 23 with 3230 views | WeirdFishes | If true that says to me he’s playing more than the role of back up. |  |
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Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:36 - Jul 23 with 3191 views | portmanking | That's nonsense. It's true that Watford could only go to £20k and we essentially gazumped them with a base salary in the region of late £20k's with bonuses taking it over £30k. He turned down 40k at Everton because he wanted to move back down south. Playing at the same club as his son is seen as a big pull too. |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:36 - Jul 23 with 3160 views | burnbudgiesburn | Interesting that Everton still wanted to register him as a player for next season. |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:39 - Jul 23 with 3067 views | _clive_baker_ |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:36 - Jul 23 by portmanking | That's nonsense. It's true that Watford could only go to £20k and we essentially gazumped them with a base salary in the region of late £20k's with bonuses taking it over £30k. He turned down 40k at Everton because he wanted to move back down south. Playing at the same club as his son is seen as a big pull too. |
He wasn't offered a new deal at Everton was he? |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:41 - Jul 23 with 3028 views | portmanking |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:39 - Jul 23 by _clive_baker_ | He wasn't offered a new deal at Everton was he? |
They were interested in keeping him. But he didn't want to stay up north. |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:52 - Jul 23 with 2752 views | flykickingbybgunn | Do you think he signed for because he wants to play for us or to be close to his boy. Any father on here will tell you. For him money will be irrelevent. I expect it to be low. |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:54 - Jul 23 with 2683 views | SheffordBlue |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:36 - Jul 23 by portmanking | That's nonsense. It's true that Watford could only go to £20k and we essentially gazumped them with a base salary in the region of late £20k's with bonuses taking it over £30k. He turned down 40k at Everton because he wanted to move back down south. Playing at the same club as his son is seen as a big pull too. |
Wonder if his son thinks the same. At his son's age I was doing everything possible to get away from my parents!! |  |
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Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:57 - Jul 23 with 2612 views | HighgateBlue | What you've posted there doesn't mention 50k. That would be crazy money. Having said that, we're not paying a fee for him. A loan fee for a decent loanee would be justified for a 12 month period. We know that we're not signing him for the longer term, and we know that there's no way we're making any profit on him. So it's just a question of what this one season is worth. I would view part of his salary as being in lieu of a fee. But no way is it 50k/week, and I haven't seen any evidence that it is. 25% higher than his current Premier League employers? I mean it just has a total unreality to it. |  | |  | Login to get fewer ads
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:57 - Jul 23 with 2611 views | Chris_ITFC | How times have changed #83864… |  |
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Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:01 - Jul 23 with 2494 views | oldbeardy | If it's true we are paying him a substantial salary surely we'd have been better spending it on keeping Axel |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:04 - Jul 23 with 2397 views | blueoutlook |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:01 - Jul 23 by oldbeardy | If it's true we are paying him a substantial salary surely we'd have been better spending it on keeping Axel |
We may as well have given Morsey another decent new contract and he isn’t as old ! |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:06 - Jul 23 with 2346 views | Illinoisblue |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:01 - Jul 23 by oldbeardy | If it's true we are paying him a substantial salary surely we'd have been better spending it on keeping Axel |
What part of “player would rather play in the premier league” is not being understood? |  |
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Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:10 - Jul 23 with 2271 views | blueoutlook |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:06 - Jul 23 by Illinoisblue | What part of “player would rather play in the premier league” is not being understood? |
I don’t think it was even that. It was more that his partner didn’t settle down here so he wanted to go back north with her. |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:12 - Jul 23 with 2240 views | homer_123 |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 17:34 - Jul 23 by WeirdFishes | If true that says to me he’s playing more than the role of back up. |
Given he played 36 times for Everton last season - then, yes, I would expect him to want to play! |  |
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Ashley Young - reported wage on 19:16 - Jul 23 with 1799 views | have_a_word_with_him | Co-pilot says his career earnings are $80.9 million excluding sponsorship income. Just interesting. |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 19:20 - Jul 23 with 1743 views | Swansea_Blue | I very much hope not. |  |
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Ashley Young - reported wage on 19:27 - Jul 23 with 1651 views | WeirdFishes |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:12 - Jul 23 by homer_123 | Given he played 36 times for Everton last season - then, yes, I would expect him to want to play! |
I hope so, not sure what all the negativity is, fantastic signing. |  |
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Ashley Young - reported wage on 19:28 - Jul 23 with 1639 views | Vic |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 18:01 - Jul 23 by oldbeardy | If it's true we are paying him a substantial salary surely we'd have been better spending it on keeping Axel |
Unfortunately Axel didn’t want to stay here. |  |
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Ashley Young - reported wage on 19:33 - Jul 23 with 1550 views | fallyblue | Even if it is 50K a week prorata that is still better value than Muric over the length of his contract. No brainer |  | |  |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 19:36 - Jul 23 with 1497 views | Swansea_Blue |
Ashley Young - reported wage on 19:33 - Jul 23 by fallyblue | Even if it is 50K a week prorata that is still better value than Muric over the length of his contract. No brainer |
We don’t know that yet do we. He could be the stand out keeper in the league this year. (I’m probably clutching at straws) |  |
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Ashley Young - reported wage on 19:47 - Jul 23 with 1368 views | Rimsy | Players take care of themselves so much better nowadays. It's not unusual these days to see older players competing at a good level. |  |
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