Manchester United legend, Paddy Crerand, has recognised the improvement in home grown midfielder, Darren Fletcher. Crerand rightly states that Fletcher used to be singled out by United fans as a player who wasn’t good enough, but then who would look good enough in comparison to Roy Keane and Paul Scholes?
“For me, he is an automatic pick,” said Crerand. “For the big games I think the manager would pick Fletcher, he’d be first on the team sheet. Darren has made the point that he wants to be the number one choice in midfield. And he’s playing well enough to be number one. I almost don’t need to make the point for him, he’s making a strong enough case himself. He was outstanding against Wigan and outstanding against Arsenal. And against Tottenham and Manchester City, you want him in the midfield. He’s been playing like that for quite a few years now. I think the fans are starting to appreciate him, that’s the only difference. For a long time Darren was a scapegoat. When he came through he played alongside Roy Keane and Paul Scholes and there aren’t many players in English football, never mind for United, who’ve been as good as those two. That’s the standard that was set, but Darren’s got better and better. He’s a tremendous passer and doesn’t get the credit for that sometimes. All you hear is that he gets in at people. But he is enthusiastic and whole-hearted, and fans love that.”
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carrick and andos form has dipped .fletch has rocketed up in terms of confidence and performance.when hargo is back fergie should play hargo fletch and anderson in mid against the big teams.
in fletch i trust!
Love Darren Fletcher, one of the most important players in the team.
He certianly is looking a better player than he was, and is arguably our best current centre mid, but I am not sure if that is down to Fletch or the form of our other lads in there.
I would never want him to leave becuase he gives everything to the club, effort, commitment and he loves the club but we do lack a genuine world class player in the centre which could be our achilles heel this season.
Next time I get a new Man Utd shirt I’ll be sure to print #24 Fletcher on the back of it. Football genius…
When he broke onto the scene I felt he was too light on the ball. How times have changed. Its now Fletcher who is at the forefront for us in breaking opposition attacks. Keep it up Darren
Fletch u are d BOMB.Keep givin it ur all……
People on here know how much I love Darren “Immense” Fletcher. I don’t think as Stephen says he looks good because our other midfielders are off form I genuinely think he is the best “box to box” midfielder around. As Paddy says its not just his work rate he can actually pass a ball now, and well. I personally would like to see him as Captain as United one day soon. You only have to look at the way he is always organising the other midfielders AND defence. A superb player.
I will actually be watching Scotland tonight to see how he performs as opposed to Ingerlund. Talking of our National team did anyone hear Colybore “Beckham bashing” last night? What a fucking cunt.
I hope King Eric because he will be important to us mate, I did hear Stan Dogawhore on Talkshite last night, but what got me he said he would only take Gerrard, Lampard and Barry to the world cup as Milner could fill in the centre, no Carrick. I know
he hasn’t played as well as he would have liked so far but we are early into the season and I am sorry Barry isn’t fit to lace his boots.
Stephen – Exactly mate I was surprised to hear no mention of Carrick. He also said the other night that Hargo won’t be fit then in the next breath we should take Ledley as he is a “different class to RIO, upson etc”. The man is a cunt, I cannot describe how much I loathe and detest him. It was only a fortnight a go prior to the Wigan game that he said we won’t score goals! He actually started getting proper personal regards Becks last night.
Maybe he should look at himself in the mirror before passing comment on others, with his ability he only achieved 3 caps no goals, so how can he pass judgement on International football?
He had nine clubs so passing judgement on loyal hard workers International class players is a joke.
Woman beater, and has been caught dogging is this is the sort of person who people have to educated on the whys and nots on football, give me Terry Christian any day.
Stephen – Spot on again. How anyone should take note of this cunt is beyond me. A no mark player whose greatest achievement was getting a winner for the dippers against the Geordies. He thinks he knows it all too, always coming out with his stats and shit. What happened to Terry. Used to love him winding the Scousers up! Anyway back to work now. See y’all later.
@king eric
Dont like collybore myself mate but does he have a point about becks. If the likes of milner and lennon dont get a run of games then are we ever gonna know if their good enough. on topic agree wiv you about fletch most improved player at the club future captain
@King Eric
Hey buddy, agree with you wholeheartedly on how he has grown, excellent work rate and great fighter. Reminds me of ol’ Keano… just without the badass temper which was unnecessary for me at times.
I’ve got a slight disagreement though, Fletcher’s passing isn’t too good for me… Looking at the Arsenal game, he did make quite a lot of awry passes which ended up smack into an Arsenal player normally. Don’t get me wrong, Fletcherino’s a GREAT PLAYER… but there’s still loads of stuff he can improve on!
That being said… poor performance from Carrick. That was horrendous honestly! He definitely needs much more confidence!
Fletcherinho has proved to be a very, very valuable big-game performer. He turns up when the going is tough. His absence in Rome was HUGE !
His play might not be eye-pleasing but he gets the job done. And, like King Eric has said, that’s the most important part of a box-to-box midfielders job-description.
Along with Rio/Vidic and Wayne Rooney, I would imagine that Fletcherinho is now one of the cornerstones of UTD. And, those who would downgrade his passing need to review some old footage and refresh their memories.
Credit to the man, because he stayed at United and fought for a place by improving himself immensely. If I were Fletcher, I would be very proud of myself, but still he seems humble and down-to-earth. A great footballer.
And credit to the great man himself (I’m talking about Fergie), because he must have player a very important role in all the above.
He was not only too light for the game, but he was also too slow to think what to do next with the ball.
But now he is a big presence in the midfield, and the time he takes with the ball is just reassuring.
I hope Ando will take example from this. Hardwork and perseverance are the keywords.
At the beginning of last season, after some poor matches I would say..if only we had Essien in our midfield… But hey I think we`ve got someone as good as him! And that also coming from our youth system.
He is now better than Mascherano and with a fit Hargo or an in-form Carrick playing alonside him, Fletcher will become even better! Frightening!
Amen. Fletch has such great passion for United. I’ll admit I used to cringe when I saw him on the team sheet but after he bagged a couple in that 4-0 win against the Arses I couldn’t help thinking the lad had some talent. When Hargo is back to 100% I’d love to see the two of them paired in midfield.
I always thought people were unfair to Fletch when fergie was playing him on the right of midfield. He used to get stick yet he was out of position. When he moved to centre mid people slowly started to realize his potential. A thought just crossed my mind. Fletch was a constant in all our big perfomances recently. 7-1 Roma, 3-0 Chelsea, 4-0 Arsenal, 3-1 Arsenal. Can”t think of any others. can you?
Collymore is a TWAT.
Becks is a LEGEND and has the best right foot in football, maybe the best right foot of all time, and Collymore was just slating him.
Fletcher should be captain after Rio. After Fletch should be the best player in the world, I am ofcourse referring to Wayne Rooney.
if hargreaves can get fit him and fletcher would be a superb midfield pairing.
Fletcher has shown what hard work ,discipline and determination can do for a player.
3 things collymore lacked in his sporting career and in his off field life
While Hargo’s not back, better stick Gibson with Fletch than Carrick or Ando at the moment.
hurr – I know what you mean but in a way I disagree. The only way Carrick and Ando will regain their form is to start them and let them play through their slump. It s no good just benching them as it won’t build up their confidence which they both seem to be lacking of late. They will come good again.
i am the one who used to slated Fletcher when he was on the team sheet…
But today i would be mad as hell if i dont see his name on the teamsheet…
Fletcherino is the new Keano…
no fletcher was good but no captain material…im preferring Vida the beast…and Rooney the emperor to inherit the armband from ferdinand…
Would love a midfield of the tqo youth players, Fletch and Gibson, similar players to the old Keane and Scholes, a box to box, in-your-face player, and a guy with passing up their with Beckham, and a cracking shot.