Darren Fletcher has sung the praises of Paul Scholes, following renewed interest in the 35-year-old since scoring the winner against City at the weekend.
“If the manager could have clones of players then Scholesy would definitely be one of them,” said Fletcher. “Paul is phenomenal. He is an inspiration to every player at this club. He is a legend and a real benchmark. I don’t think we will ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer’s life off the pitch, but is a world-class player on the pitch. I have watched him all the time in my United career. I study his movement, the way he controls the game, his switches of play. He is the complete midfielder.”
Scholes has recently signed a year long contract extension with the club so will be a Manchester United player until he is 36-years-old at least. Fletch has gone on to look at the changes in Scholes as the years have gone by.
“He has adapted his style as he has got older,” he continued. “Back in the day, nobody could touch him when it came to a goalscoring midfielder. He’d bomb on to try to get a goal like he did on Saturday. Back then it was a regular occurrence. Nowadays he is like a deep lying quarterback the way he controls the tempo of the game. He has adapted his style as he has got older. I have watched all the midfielders here like Roy Keane, Nicky Butt, Giggs, David Beckham and Paul. They all had great qualities. Paul’s late runs into the box are an aspect of his game that I have tried to get into my game. The last couple of seasons especially I have tried to get myself more goalscoring opportunities like he does. The way he makes angles for the defenders so he can get on the ball and start the tempo and play is great. He is the benchmark for things like that.”
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If we could clone, clone a hybrid of scholesy and keane. We would have a monster in midfield then.
Giggs Scholes Keane Beckham
The greatest 4-4-2 midfield ever, 5 men in midfield would struggle to contain them, it’s amazing how times have passed on but at least we had them and no other team comes close.
Scholes is freakin awesome!
Idk about keane… Fletch is turning out to be quite the gem. Right now I’d say he’s only second to Essein in the league for what he does. His passing game for a DM (though maybe a reg M is more accurate) is quite good.
Of course he is the role model. He will be missed. A replacement for him is nowhere in sight which is worrying. Lets hope the likes of gibson,cleverley,anderson can step up next season to take the pressure of scholesy. Has cleverley been offered a new contract???
first person to clone definetly have to be Fergie.
What Mic said.
I think Chelsea have already won the league,” he told Goal.com.
“I am sorry for Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool, because I always want Lancashire clubs to win everything, but I think Chelsea will be champions, they are a good team.
“We [Wigan] play Chelsea on the last day of the season, and I think they will be lifting the trophy when they play against us.”
What a disgraceful comment
Is he conceding that Wigan are going to roll over at Stamford Brigde
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It’s great when young players take advantage of all the skill and experience around them to learn and improve. Fletch looks as though he’s going to be the one younger players learn from in years to come as the baton passes from generation to generation. He’s clearly studied all the great mid-fielders at Old Trafford in a deliberate attempt to distil the best lessons from each of them. One of the ways I’ve noticed Fletch improve is in collecting the ball out of defence, creating space for himself before setting up another attack. He used to get caught in possession too often when younger, but you can see that he learned from Scholsey about to sort that out. Fletch has had to work hard to make himself a first=choice player at United, but that just shows that hard work, application and learning from the best of your team-mates can really take you to the top. Are you listening Gibbo??
@Sayyid – that’s very unlike Whelan. Hopefully it’s mind games.
@Fred
Hope so. He’s probably trying to make the Chelsea players think they have an easy game as Wigan’s season will be over by the final day
Fantastic read, Darren of course is Scottish says it like it is.The words he uses are thought through,he like the other younger players look up to the long term servants of the club and rightly so,respect is not given cheaply, its earnt over a sustained period.Paul has warranted all the fine plaudits awarded to him over the years,giving up an England career to maintain a vital role at the club etc etc.
There are young players as we all are aware to take up the mantel,of our magnicent three.I personally am glad these lads can model themselves on these giants Paul Ryan and Gary.
Many if not all other clubs would give there eye Teeth to have these model professionals to groom the next generation.
Cloning is only necessary when you have an endangered species in my opinion,WE dont.
Its not as if its the Boys from Brazil, or planning to have Dolly the Sheep in midfield.lol
Darren any chance of you dropping out the Scottish team to maintain your bang on form at United.
We will all be writing great words about you in 10 years time also, keep it going Loon.
Darren Fletcher football genius.
Class act.
IMO, the best box-to-box midfielder in the world.
I didn’t say anything about the Ginger Ninja because there’s nothing that hasn’t already been said about that little genius.
When Guus Hiddink wrote his end-of-term report for Chelsea last year he mentioned that of all the English clubs United had the best structure in terms of team development. We are lucky enough to have a broad mixture of young players, experienced players and veterans like Scholes, Giggs and Gary Neville. This means as players come and go through the years the values that make United special are retained by word-of-mouth and by example. It also prevents extreme traits of character from seeping into the team – younger players are brought down to Earth by the wisdom of the older ones, etc.. Let’s hope as SAF’s retirement draws ever closer that we don’t lose this way of doing things when he’s gone!
Actually, I feel Fletcher is more moulded to be like Keane rather than Scholes. But the 1 thing Fletcher should learn from Scholes is how to strike the ball from range, and he would be the complete player.
Btw, read some comments from Liverpool’s captain fantastic, it read like a sound of beaten man already. Now I feel think Liverpool will really screw up their game with Chelsea and concentrate on Europa, disgrace
What would we give for another Keane and Scholes in our midfield.
i agree with Fletch speaking about scholes he is a true red and a true legend and in my opinion darren if he continue play the way that he is doing he will be a true legend him self aswell. he is one of the most important players that we have in the moment i could see him as captain aswell.