{"id":446519,"date":"2011-06-23T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/23\/ashley-young-targeting-20th-premier-league-title-at-manchester-united-following-aston-villa-arrival\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:25:00","slug":"ashley-young-targeting-20th-premier-league-title-at-manchester-united-following-aston-villa-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/23\/ashley-young-targeting-20th-premier-league-title-at-manchester-united-following-aston-villa-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Young targeting 20th Premier League title at Manchester United following Aston Villa arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Michael Lightfoot<\/h3>\n<h4>23 Jun 2011 21:25:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"66.3358671171\">\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ashley Young\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/134700\/134716_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ashley Young<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span readability=\"34.0546927752\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/12657\/ashley-young\">Ashley Young<\/a> hopes to secure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd\">Manchester United<\/a>&#8216;s record 20th league title next season following his arrival from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old is the club&#8217;s second summer signing following the arrival of defender Phil Jones from Blackburn and has revealed his ambitions since penning a five-year deal at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo come here and play with such great players and have the chance to be part of a team that hopefully wins the 20th title would be amazing,&#8221; Young told <em>MUTV<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is surreal, but I am delighted to be here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am going to miss Villa, the fans, the manager and the staff, but to have the chance to come and play for one of the biggest clubs in the world is one that I could not turn down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Young admitted he was excited after hearing of Manchester United&#8217;s interest and insists he was prepared to switch clubs from the early running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnited have that winning mentality and for myself as a player I have always wanted to be the best I can be. To come to a club like this you are always going to have challenges,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>I want to win titles and hopefully I can be part of that this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do get a buzz inside when told United have made a bid. You get a great feeling that one of the greatest managers in the world wants to sign you and one of the greatest clubs in the world wants to buy you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, as soon as I got the call, I wanted to get things sorted, get the papers signed and get in to training. We\u2019re back on the July 4 and I can\u2019t wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/23\/2545176\/ashley-young-targeting-20th-premier-league-title-at\" title=\"Ashley Young targeting 20th Premier League title at Manchester United following Aston Villa arrival\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashley Young targeting 20th Premier League title at Manchester United following Aston Villa arrival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Michael Lightfoot 23 Jun 2011 21:25:00 Ashley Young Related Links Teams Players Ashley Young hopes to secure Manchester United &#8216;s record 20th league title next season following his arrival from Aston Villa . The 25-year-old is the club&#8217;s second summer signing following the arrival of defender Phil Jones from Blackburn and has revealed his ambitions since penning a five-year deal at Old Trafford. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-446519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ashley Young targeting 20th Premier League title at Manchester United following Aston Villa arrival - 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\/23\/ashley-young-targeting-20th-premier-league-title-at-manchester-united-following-aston-villa-arrival\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ashley Young targeting 20th Premier League title at Manchester United following Aston Villa arrival - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Michael Lightfoot 23 Jun 2011 21:25:00 Ashley Young Related Links Teams Players Ashley Young hopes to secure Manchester United &#039;s record 20th league title next season following his arrival from Aston Villa . 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