It may go without saying that Young is the man and with Villa sitting third in the Premier League and in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup, it is he who will lead Villa's golden generation to even greater things.
Apart from all the other truly admirable things he does, his invaluable contribution in underlined and highlighted by virtue of the fact that he either scores or creates almost every goal that Villa score. Without him, Villa could be just another team.
Martin O'Neill described Young as world class after his epic match winning performance against Everton earlier this month and while O'Neill is positive about all his players, this sort of recognition caught everyone off guard.
He later qualified his comments by claiming Young is in the same class as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi and while in patches Young may show the ability of the very best the lavish praise seemed a little premature.
However, when it comes to playing for this Aston Villa team, there are certainly not too many who could get in it ahead of Young.
Winner
He displays an attitude to work for the team that certainly Ronaldo never would. Just think back a few weeks when he literally appeared out of nowhere to foil Ronaldo's team mate Ji Sung Park with a last ditch sliding tackle.
The former Watford winger is very slight of build and while it cannot go unnoticed that he doesn't take too much encouragement to go to ground he is no play actor and throws around his minimal weight around wherever he can.
Example, Phil Neville tried to rough him up to keep him quiet at Goodison two weeks ago. His reaction? Well firstly to tell Neville exactly what he thought of him and then leave the ex Manchester United player on is backside with a thunderous challenge as soon as he possibly could.
There was no brandishing of imaginary yellow cards or rolling around on the ground for five minutes ala Ronaldo. The end result of their particular battle was Neville being substituted while Young scored a last minute winner, which has to have been one of the best ever from a Villa player, to seal all three points.
Or how about when Mehdi Nafti tried similar tactics at Villa Park last season? Unphased, Young got straight up and went head to head with the player. Noticing Villa were still on the attack, he left the midfielder for dead with his pace and with all the anger from the previous incident lashed a 15 yard side foot volley past a despairing Maik Taylor, in front of the Holte End no less. If you could bottle that sort of moment you'd be a very wealthy man indeed.
And on the subject of money, Young did not come cheap. But, O'Neill obviously saw enough in a player who only had five months Premiership experience when he shelled out £9.65 million pounds for him in January 2006.
Magic
Scoring on his debut against Newcastle, Young quite surprisingly struggled for a few games particularly under the glare of the Villa Park faithful but once he found his dancing feet he just got better and better.
Two years later he is being hailed by literally everyone in the game, be it Martin O'Neill, Fabio Capello, Terry Venables or Real Madrid. A quick message to the Spanish giants, he's not going anywhere, O'Neill will see to that.
So what's so good about Young? Take a deep breath: lightening pace, brilliant touch, skill, tricks, two good feet which he uses for crossing, passing or shooting, an immeasurable work ethic, dead ball expertise, humility, good character and absolutely frightening potential to improve even further.
Taking into account how brilliant he is now with only two and a half years top flight experience, the potential to become truly world class cannot be discarded.
Second only to Cesc Fabregas in the assists chart last season gaining no fewer than 17 to his credit while scoring a respectable eight goals of his own. This season he looks set to do even better again. In all competitions he has achieved seven goals and a further 12 assists. Plus, it is worth noting that it was from his run and pass that James Milner had the opportunity to attempt a cross that ended up in West Ham's net on Saturday.
Ashley Young is one very few players who is almost impossible to fault and it has been a absolute pleasure to watch his Villa career develop to this point and we look forward to many more magic moments from the Villa number seven. Although he probably shouldn't take too many more penalties!
All hail Ashley Young as Villa's most important player.