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Who Is Ashley Young And What Is His Estimated Net Worth?

Into the twilight years of his career, Ashley Young is Aston Villa’s club captain during his second stint with the club. Young is a depth piece at this stage, starting just 10 Premier League matches in 2021-22 along with 14 substitute appearances.

This is only part of the Ashley Young story, however. He starred alongside some of the best Premier League strikers, he was an England regular and even had a surprising stint at San Siro with Inter.

He first made his name starring for a Watford team favoured in Premier League relegation odds, but Young quickly climbed the Premier League hierarchy to build a significant medal collection.

From his latest contract to career moves and a surprising link to the greatest of British F1 drivers, let’s learn a bit more about the former England international.

How Much Is Ashley Young Worth?

Ashley Young net worth is reportedly £7.4 million. Obviously, the vast majority of Young’s net worth was accumulated during his nine-season stay with Manchester United.

He reportedly earned over £6 million per year in the final three years at Old Trafford, and his income was significant after moving to the north-west from Aston Villa.

Young had what was likely a lucrative deal with Nike during his peak years at Manchester United.

Never the most marketable of footballers, however, the Stevenage native didn’t have the same catalogue of endorsement deals as many of his peers.

Ashley Young Contract

Despite leaving the club as a free agent on July 1st 2022, Ashley Young extended his contract for another season a few days later.

Along with the new deal, he was named club captain, though midfielder John McGinn was picked as on-field skipper by Steven Gerrard.

It’s unclear what Young’s salary is exactly for 2022-23, but Spotrac had him down for £50,000 per week in 2021-22.

There is a decent chance that he has taken a slight pay cut given his role in the squad, though Gerrard spoke very positively of Young back in March.

He's a player who can come in and do any job on a football pitch. There aren't many people who can do that, especially at his age as well.

"He's one of a few, like James Milner, who are a manager's dream. Certain situations crop up where you need someone to come in and do a certain type of job.

"It doesn't matter whether it's on the left, the right, in the middle, in attack, it doesn't matter what you ask them to do, they just carry it out. People need to give Ashley Young a lot of credit for being able to do that."

Villa have invested heavily in their first team over the last three transfer windows, with several players paid considerably more than Young in 2021-22.

He will have fallen further down the list this summer with the signings of Diego Carlos and Boubacar Kamara.

Ashley Young Career Statistics

Ashley Young has played in over 640 club matches, scoring 84 goals along the way.

Young’s England career began in 2007 and he made his last appearance in 2018, finishing on 39 caps with seven goals despite a hiatus between 2013 and 2017.

Predominantly a creator rather than scorer, Young has over 120 assists to his name in club football, with a career-best return of 16 assists in 2007-08 for Aston Villa.

Starting his career with Watford, Young made 110 appearances for the Hornets before joining Villa for the first time.

Across four and a half campaigns in the Midlands, he appeared 190 times for the Villains ahead of a high-profile move to Manchester United.

Across almost a decade at Old Trafford, Young had over 260 outings and then had a short stint with Inter by which point he had shifted to playing full-back or wing-back.

Lewis Hamilton Link

Ashley Young attended the same school, and played in a football team alongside seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton.

The Saint John Henry Newman Catholic School has quite a claim to fame, having produced arguably the greatest racing of all-time and a long-serving Premier League star in Young.

It’s an overstatement to say Young is in Hamilton’s shadow, but there have been moments where he has not responded too positively to his schoolmate being brought up during interviews.

Ashley Young Transfer History

Joining Watford’s academy at just 10 years of age, Young debuted for the club in September 2003. He made six total appearances for the club that season and became an integral part of the side in 2004-05.

Having caught the eye in the Championship, Young continued to impress with Watford in the Premier League. Halfway through his debut topflight campaign, Aston Villa spent almost £12 million to take the then 21-year-old to Villa Park.

Four and a half years later, Young had earned numerous individual honours, including a couple of selections to the PFA Team of the Year.

Manchester United came calling in the 2011 summer window, splashing over £16 million on Young and handing him the number 18 shirt.

While already highly regarded, this was a real step up in the world of Premier League predictions, and Young was under considerable pressure to deliver. He did just that, winning his first and only league title in 2012-13.

Into his final few seasons at Old Trafford, Young moved into a deeper role, often used as a wing-back.

Being adept in this role is what made Inter sign Young for around £1 million in January 2020. The Nerazzuri had, and exercised, an option to retain the Englishman for the 2020-21 season.

At the end of this deal, he re-signed with Aston Villa on a one-year deal.

Ashley Young Honours

Premier League – 2012-13
FA Cup – 2015-16
EFL Cup – 2016-17
Community Shield – 2011
Europa League – 2016-17
Serie A – 2020-21
Watford Player of the Season – 2004-05
PFA Team of the Year – 2005-06 Championship, 2007-08 Premier League, 2008-09 Premier League
PFA Young Player of the Year – 2008-09
Premier League Player of the Month – April 2008, September 2008, December 2008

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Who Is Pierre Gasly And What Is His Net Worth?

Since breaking into the top level of motorsport a few years ago, Pierre Gasly has faced an up and down time in Formula 1 betting.

Initially impressing with Toro Rosso, Gasly had a brutal half-season alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull, but has once again been exceptional in the AlphaTauri.

While not in a car with a chance of being picked as a winner in Formula 1 betting tips, Gasly has consistently outperformed his teammates and proven to be one of the best drivers on the grid.

He is waiting for another opportunity in a race-winning car, though it’s unclear what the future holds with Red Bull extending Sergio Perez’s deal.

What Is Pierre Gasly's Net Worth?

Pierre Gasly has an estimated net worth of $2 million according to Essentially Sports.

The Frenchman is competing in his sixth Formula One season, and his fifth full campaign.

While he hasn’t been among the highest-paid drivers during his career, Gasly has still been handsomely rewarded throughout his time with Toro Rosso, Red Bull and now AlphaTauri.

Part of their driver program, Gasly is obviously endorsed by energy drinks company turned motorsport giant Red Bull.

He is also associated with Blomm and Berger, a Swiss headphone company, and entered into a partnership with Crypto Gaming recently.

Pierre Gasly Contract

Pierre Gasly reportedly earns £4.1 million per year from his contract with AlphaTauri.

This places in the bottom half among F1 drivers in 2022, with only six drivers receiving less money per season. That group includes Gasly’s teammate Yuki Tsunoda and the driver he was swapped for in 2019, Alex Albon.

Halfway through the 2022 season, it was announced Gasly has extended his deal with AlphaTauri for another year, taking him through 2023.

This was a direct response to Perez staying on at Red Bull. Left with few other options, Gasly will hope to impress at his current team and potentially earn a switch to a more competitive car.

McLaren is a potential landing spot if Daniel Ricciardo departs after 2023.

Upon the announcement of the contract, Gasly said, "I'm happy to remain with my Scuderia AlphaTauri team next season.

"This year's new regulations have created new challenges for us, and being able to plan our development with the team for the next 18 months is a good working basis for the future."

Who Is Pierre Gasly's Girlfriend?

Pierre Gasly’s girlfriend is Katerina Berezhna. A Ukrainian social media influencer, Berezhna has kept her relationship with Gasly relatively quiet.

The majority of Formula One drivers choose to keep their private life away from the glaring eyes of social media, and Gasly has been no different.

Rumours recently surfaced that Berezhna and Gasly have gone their separate ways. The relationship status of the AlphaTauri driver is currently unclear.

Pierre Gasly F1 Win

Pierre Gasly never achieved a podium, let alone a race win, during his half-season with Red Bull. Not only overshadowed by Max Verstappen’s net worth, Gasly was horribly overmatched and the environment became incredibly challenging.

He was rejuvenated when he returned to the sister team, earning his first career podium at the penultimate race of the 2019 campaign.

A matter of months later, Gasly went one better, winning his first ever Grand Prix at Monza. A dramatic race throughout, the Frenchman held off Carlos Sainz in the McLaren to claim victory by under half a second.

In post-race interviews, Gasly cited his fighting spirit, not only from his turbulent time on the track, but also having to cope with the loss of childhood friend Anthoine Hubert.

"It's amazing. I'm honestly lost for words, it's unbelievable, I've been through so many things in 18 months, it's better than anything I expected.

"I'm not someone that gives up on anything. I've always had to fight for everything in my life since I was in karting. My drive to be better is so strong.

"I've got no words - it's an amazing day. It's been so long since another French winner! I never expected this, I'm so happy!"

It was an historic race, with Gasly becoming the first French race winner since 1996 and AlphaTauri becoming the first team outside the big three to win a race since 2013.

"This team has done so much for me. They gave me my first podium and today they've given me my first win.

"It feels amazing and a big thank you to all these guys. Most of these guys are Italian, they'll be having a great time.

"I literally gave everything I had. I pushed so hard to open up a gap. The last five laps were so difficult. I'll be sleeping next to the trophy, that's for sure!"

Naturally, the praise came flooding in from Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, Martin Brundle and many others.

Gasly ensured he wouldn’t be on the list of the best drivers to not win a race, and it’s a day that he can always cherish regardless of how the rest of his F1 career plays out.

Speaking to Autosport several months after his maiden win, Gasly explained how the emotions from that day remained with him.

"I remember every single second of that race and of the celebration It's something which is in my mind and will never go away…

"It was something quite incredible. This year, Mercedes won pretty much all the races, except Max [Verstappen] and Checo [Perez] - and us."

The trophy is kept in Gasly’s apartment near the track, serving as a source of motivation on a daily basis.

"When I'm in Italy in my apartment, that's where I stayed over the [Monza] weekend, it was the first time to sleep at home for a race weekend.

"I'm sat exactly there, the same place I had my breakfast before my win, and I see the trophy and kind of feels pretty special.

"It's a great motivation. Every morning, I take my coffee with the trophy in front of me, and think 'yeah, we've done it'. It's not impossible, even though we were a midfield team.

"That should be a motivation for all of us in the team to try and repeat as much as we can, strong performances like we have had in Sao Paulo or in Monza."

Gasly Drivers’ Championship Results

2018 – 15th, 29 points
2019 – 7th, 95 points
2020 – 10th, 75 points
2021 – 9th, 110 points

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Hunting The Quadruple: Can Man City Or Liverpool Win All Four Trophies?

No team in Europe’s big five leagues have ever won a quadruple (the four biggest trophies)
Both Manchester City and Liverpool have previous come close to making history
This season they have the squads to pull it off, but do they have the luck?

It first became possible for an English side to win a quadruple in 1960 though ‘possible’ seems jarring in context.

With the founding of the League Cup, a side could now theoretically win the league the previous season in order to qualify for the European Cup, then navigate their way through a series of knock-out rounds against champions of other leagues and lift the famous big-eared trophy come May.

And all while securing another league title and claiming the newly conceived League Cup and the FA Cup to boot.

As stated, ‘possible’ is a stretch, ‘possible’ takes extreme liberties and subsequently nobody discussed the fanciful notion of one team claiming all four major trophies back then, because it was deemed to be very much impossible.

It never came up, nor until recently was there even a betting market to cover such an eventuality. It exceeded our imaginations, like waking up and wondering if you were going to see a human levitate that day.

It first became easier for an English side to win a quadruple in 1992, though again ‘easier’ jars, hugely downplaying what is necessary to achieve this ridiculous feat.

At least now, with the European Cup rebranded as the Champions League it afforded a team to finish top four a year prior and, furthermore, an opening group stage in the continental competition allowed for slip-ups on route.

Yet still, it was an unexplored conversation, never mentioned even when Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United went on a sustained winning spree in 1998/99. Having exited the Worthington’s Cup in December, all of what followed was framed as a treble quest.

Only then in 2016, Pep Guardiola arrived on our shores, his managerial alchemy initially hitting some resistance before the English game bent to his will and wilted under his fantastical football.

In 2017/18, the Blues didn’t encounter a league defeat until mid-January and briefly it was suggested that they might replicate the great Arsenal side of the 2000s, remaining invincible throughout a long season.

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A year later, a similar charge found them still competing in every competition in the Spring and with March heralding a Champions League quarter-final clash against Spurs, along with a couple of must-win games in the league as they fought neck-and-neck with Liverpool, it was tentatively pointed out that the Carabao Cup had already been attained, while a fortnight earlier a FA Cup final spot had been secured.

It was at this juncture, and for the first time ever really, that the idea that an English team might win a clean sweep of silverware began to be mooted beyond a whisper.

“It’s almost impossible to achieve everything, that is the truth,” was Guardiola’s response, when questioned about the unprecedented pursuit, and the Catalan was indeed telling the truth. Spurs won at the Etihad and progressed to the semis.

Such was City’s supremacy however, that again the subject was raised in the Spring of 2021, and with City deep in every tournament what particularly interests here is a candid admission made by their full-back Oleksandr Zinchenko that the players were proactively hunting down a quad. They had, he insisted, ‘hungry eyes’ so ‘why not?’

This unusual breaking of the unwritten player’s code to always play down their intentions brought a public rebuking from Guardiola, in itself a rare occurrence.

“I am older than Mr Zinchenko, I have more experience and I don’t agree with him,” he said, going on to call four titles a ‘utopia’. And again, he was right. It was a utopia, mystical and out of reach.

Of course, City have not had everything their own way in recent seasons with Liverpool forging a duopoly at the top of the Premier League.

As much as Guardiola has transformed City into a ravenous and ruthless machine, Jurgen Klopp has done likewise at Anfield, and while they have also flirted with trophy clean sweeps in previous seasons, last term they went closer than any side has done before.

Remarkably, on the final day of the league season, and with a Champions League final honing into view, the Reds were just two games away from creating a quite ludicrous slice of history, something that Klopp himself had described as ‘crazy’ some months before. Naturally, the German was right. It was.

Yet still, when these close shaves are acknowledged, along with each team’s phenomenal stats, that have seen City average 89.5 points and Liverpool 89.25 points across the last four campaigns, while consistently reaching major finals, is it too far-fetched to speculate that one of these generational sides might win the lot this season? Possibly not.

Which naturally, is not to diminish the feat, that pertinently has never been done before by any team in Europe’s big five leagues, even if some have dominated eras in indomitable fashion.

More so, it’s not possible to diminish, not when it’s noted what a true quad consists of. A Super Cup or a Club World Cup doesn’t cut it. A Community Shield or it’s continental version certainly doesn’t. Only a Champions League, domestic league title, and the two main domestic cups suffices.

That it’s not been done before brings us to an obvious but necessary point, of how exceedingly difficult it is. One single off-day and it’s all over, as demonstrated by City’s loss to Spurs.

A team too needs to be inordinately consistent and enjoy inordinately fortunate, because how many games from these side’s vintage seasons had them rely on a bit of magic from De Bruyne or Salah; or saw a late chance for the opposition skim past the post. Or they found themselves on the right side of a VAR call.

It is additionally immensely grueling, depleting every reserve and testing every weak spot and this was witnessed last season, as Liverpool had their brush with immortality.

An astonishing, but ultimately anti-climactic charge necessitated 37 players, even if a handful experienced only mere minutes in the opening rounds of the domestic cups. It amounted to 63 games, that equates to 5700 minutes of competitive football. Not for nothing is elite football a squad game these days.

To that aim, both clubs have spent their summer active in the transfer market, strengthening from a position of strength and it feels highly unlikely that anyone other than City or Liverpool will claim the title ten months from now. A glance at the latest Premier League odds tells us that.

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But the FA Cup, with its draws that may be kind or cruel? The Champions League, that pits the cream of the continent against them? Then there’s the fixture build-up that always strikes at a season’s finale for any successful side.

In a unique year that has a World Cup squeezed into it, might the schedule become too condensed for even their vast squads to handle?

Let’s end on another example of how fortune is key. Last term, as Liverpool lost only 6% of their fixtures, Virgil Van Dijk – the Reds’ totem and leader – played more minutes than any other outfield player, 4620 minutes all told.

Yet the year before, their Dutch colossus succumbed to injury, depriving them of his services for the most part. And Liverpool won not a bean.

It’s fair to presume that Manchester City and Liverpool will again be brilliant in 2022/23 and be triumphant considerably more times than not. To win the lot however needs copious luck, and frankly there is no accounting for that.

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