{"id":438485,"date":"2011-06-09T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/09\/darren-bent-believes-aston-villa-can-cope-without-manchester-united-target-ashley-young\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T00:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T00:56:00","slug":"darren-bent-believes-aston-villa-can-cope-without-manchester-united-target-ashley-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/darren-bent-believes-aston-villa-can-cope-without-manchester-united-target-ashley-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Bent believes Aston Villa can cope without Manchester United target Ashley Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>9 Jun 2011 01:56:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"63.1264108352\">\n<div readability=\"14.6666666667\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL : Darren Bent, Aston Villa v Stoke City\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/129600\/129656_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL : Darren Bent, Aston Villa v Stoke City<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"27.0564915758\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/9730\/darren-bent\">Darren Bent<\/a> believes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a> can cope with the potential exit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/12657\/ashley-young\">Ashley Young<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The England international has been heavily linked with a move away from the Birmingham-based club, and has been widely reported to be a target for Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Sunderland man had in the past maintained that he had pleaded with Young not to make a move away from Villa, but now reckons the presence of Marc Albrighton means that club can cope without him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one can ever question Ashley&#8217;s loyalty. He has stayed here for four or five years and has been brilliant,&#8221; said Bent, according to <em>The Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But one player doesn&#8217;t make a team. If we lose Ash, then it&#8217;s a big chunk of the team missing &#8211; but we&#8217;ve got people who can step in and do well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark Albrighton came in this last season as a winger and was brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully next season, if gets more of a run in the team, he will improve even more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Young made 39 appearances for Villa during the course of the season, scoring nine goals and creating 13 more.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/09\/2524125\/darren-bent-believes-aston-villa-can-cope-without-manchester\" title=\"Darren Bent believes Aston Villa can cope without Manchester United target Ashley Young\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darren Bent believes Aston Villa can cope without Manchester United target Ashley Young<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 9 Jun 2011 01:56:00 EPL : Darren Bent, Aston Villa v Stoke City Related Links Teams Players Darren Bent believes that Aston Villa can cope with the potential exit of Ashley Young . The England international has been heavily linked with a move away from the Birmingham-based club, and has been widely reported to be a target for Manchester United<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Darren Bent believes Aston Villa can cope without Manchester United target Ashley Young - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/darren-bent-believes-aston-villa-can-cope-without-manchester-united-target-ashley-young\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Darren Bent believes Aston Villa can cope without Manchester United target Ashley Young - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 9 Jun 2011 01:56:00 EPL : Darren Bent, Aston Villa v Stoke City Related Links Teams Players Darren Bent believes that Aston Villa can cope with the potential exit of Ashley Young . 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