{"id":446530,"date":"2011-06-23T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/23\/manchester-united-legend-denis-irwin-hails-ashley-young-capture\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:20:00","slug":"manchester-united-legend-denis-irwin-hails-ashley-young-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/23\/manchester-united-legend-denis-irwin-hails-ashley-young-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United legend Denis Irwin hails Ashley Young capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Michael Lightfoot<\/h3>\n<h4>23 Jun 2011 22:20:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"80.0855780022\">\n<div readability=\"14.7448979592\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Denis Irwin,Manchester United,(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/111100\/111146_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Denis Irwin,Manchester United,(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"6.29292929293\">Former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd\">Manchester United<\/a> defender Denis Irwin has hailed the recent signing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/12657\/ashley-young\">Ashley Young<\/a> on a five-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The former Ireland international who won the treble during his time at Old Trafford expects the 25-year-old to have an instant impact next season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it\u2019s a great signing and I expect him to be a really good player for us,&#8221; Irwin told the club&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He\u2019s got good ability and is a real threat from set-pieces, which is something we\u2019ve been missing in the last couple of years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He can play anywhere behind the front man and his delivery into the box is fantastic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He\u2019s got a real eye for goal too and, given the opportunity, I think he\u2019ll chip in with a few goals next season.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Young becomes United&#8217;s second signing this summer following the arrival of former Blackburn defender and England Under-21 international Phil Jones and Irwin is confident there will be future arrivals at Old Trafford this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said: &#8220;The fact we\u2019ve lost Nev Gary Neville, Scholesy Paul Scholes and Edwin Van Der Sar, and Owen Hargreaves has also left, meant we needed to bring some players in because you need a big squad to be able to challenge for the top prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Phil and Ashley are really good acquisitions and I\u2019m sure both will do well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think there will be a lot of money spent in the next couple of months by a lot of teams and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see us bring in a couple more players.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/23\/2545216\/manchester-united-legend-denis-irwin-hails-ashley-young\" title=\"Manchester United legend Denis Irwin hails Ashley Young capture\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United legend Denis Irwin hails Ashley Young capture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Michael Lightfoot 23 Jun 2011 22:20:00 Denis Irwin,Manchester United,(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Former Manchester United defender Denis Irwin has hailed the recent signing of Aston Villa &#8216;s Ashley Young on a five-year deal. The former Ireland international who won the treble during his time at Old Trafford expects the 25-year-old to have an instant impact next season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-446530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester United legend Denis Irwin hails Ashley Young capture - 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\/manchester-united-legend-denis-irwin-hails-ashley-young-capture\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Manchester United legend Denis Irwin hails Ashley Young capture - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Michael Lightfoot 23 Jun 2011 22:20:00 Denis Irwin,Manchester United,(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Former Manchester United defender Denis Irwin has hailed the recent signing of Aston Villa &#039;s Ashley Young on a five-year deal. 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