{"id":460950,"date":"2011-07-14T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/14\/hungry-ashley-young-fitting-in-well-at-manchester-united-%e2%80%93-rio-ferdinand\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T13:53:00","slug":"hungry-ashley-young-fitting-in-well-at-manchester-united-rio-ferdinand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/14\/hungry-ashley-young-fitting-in-well-at-manchester-united-rio-ferdinand\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hungry&#8217; Ashley Young fitting in well at Manchester United \u2013 Rio Ferdinand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By George Ankers<\/h3>\n<h4>14 Jul 2011 14:53:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"61.200324412\">\n<div readability=\"12.347826087\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ashley Young-Manchester United\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/136200\/136215_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ashley Young-Manchester United<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"26.7189542484\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd\">Manchester United<\/a> defender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/1941\/rio-ferdinand\">Rio Ferdinand<\/a> says new signing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/12657\/ashley-young\">Ashley Young<\/a> is fitting in well at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Young, who completed his switch from Aston Villa last month, made his debut in a 4-1 pre-season friendly win against New England Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand told <em>Sky Sports News<\/em>: \u201cIt&#8217;s always great to see new signings, and young, hungry ones like we&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw Ashley Young out there today. He&#8217;s come in and fit in really well, so it&#8217;s good.<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The former England captain said that Young&#8217;s assuredness and experience of working with some of his new team-mates for his country has made it easier for him to bed in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s a relaxed lad, he&#8217;s confident in his own ability,\u201d said Ferdinand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s known a few of the lads so this is an easy squad for him to integrate into.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not a bad lad here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As well as Young, Sir Alex Ferguson has signed Phil Jones from Blackburn and David de Gea from Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/14\/2574656\/hungry-ashley-young-fitting-in-well-at-manchester-united-rio\" title=\"'Hungry' Ashley Young fitting in well at Manchester United \u2013 Rio Ferdinand\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Hungry&#8217; Ashley Young fitting in well at Manchester United \u2013 Rio Ferdinand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By George Ankers 14 Jul 2011 14:53:00 Ashley Young-Manchester United Related Links Teams Players Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand says new signing Ashley Young is fitting in well at the club. Young, who completed his switch from Aston Villa last month, made his debut in a 4-1 pre-season friendly win against New England Revolution. Ferdinand told Sky Sports News : \u201cIt&#8217;s always great to see new signings, and young, hungry ones like we&#8217;ve got. <\/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-460950","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>&#039;Hungry&#039; Ashley Young fitting in well at Manchester United \u2013 Rio Ferdinand - 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\/07\/14\/hungry-ashley-young-fitting-in-well-at-manchester-united-rio-ferdinand\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&#039;Hungry&#039; Ashley Young fitting in well at Manchester United \u2013 Rio Ferdinand - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By George Ankers 14 Jul 2011 14:53:00 Ashley Young-Manchester United Related Links Teams Players Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand says new signing Ashley Young is fitting in well at the club. 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