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SAF never calls him a prodigy. He never says Fletcher will replace Beckham or fly up and down the wing.
The journalist did all that hyping.
Ferguson simply said that Fletcher had great balance and that he would be able to peform at the highest level.
Both of those statements have proven to be absolutely correct.
It is the journalists who have to turn every young talent into the next great superstar. As good as Joe Cole is you'd have to consider him an abject failure compared to the way he was hyped as a teenager.
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