Ashley Young reveals talks over Everton future as contract wait goes on

Ashley Young has revealed he wants to continue at Everton for another season and become the club’s oldest-ever outfield player.

Young, 38, became the Blues’ oldest-ever outfield debutant when he turned out for Sean Dyche’s side for the first time in the 1-0 home defeat to Fulham on August 12 last year - the same age at which at which David Moyes started his 11-year stint as Everton manager and Roger Milla starred for Cameroon at the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy. Away from football, it’s also the age that Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon when Apollo 11 landed on the lunar surface in 1969 and the age of William the Conqueror when he triumphed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and was able to not only claim the throne of England but trade in his previous less-flattering nickname of ‘The Bastard.’

However, the evergreen Young, who totalled 2,467 minutes of action for Everton this season across 34 appearances in all competitions, is now targeting being a part of the action for Goodison Park’s last-ever campaign. The 2024/25 Premier League season kicks off on August 17, by which time Young will be 39 years and 40 days old - some 17 days older than the Blues’ oldest-ever outfield player Richard Gough who was 39 years, 23 days when he made his final appearance in a 2-1 home win over Bradford City on April 28, 2001.

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Indeed, by the end of the season, Young would have eclipsed Neville Southall (39 years, 74 days) and Nigel Martyn (39 years, 163 days) with only quadragenarian goalkeepers Ted Taylor (40 years, 341 days) and Ted Sagar (42 years, 282 days)