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He's nothing like Carrick. I think Dier or Obi Mikel is a better comparison. I think he'll save us a decent chunk of money in the future, with the performances against Sevilla and Chelsea, he can be a good rotation option for us.
I meant that he will take Carrick's place as the tidiest midfield option in the team. Or is it too soon?
Too soon. Right now he is replacing Fellaini as Jose's go to man to do dirty work in midfield to let the attackers play.
No he wasn't. He was extremely highly rated at youth level and Fergie was going to make us our youngest ever player but couldn't because of FA rules and the fact he was on schoolboy terms with us. Fletcher was incredibly highly rated from within the club from like the age of 14/15.
Most are saying he looks ok, so not sure why you think the majority are writing him off. There's mental hyperbole on both a positive and negative perspective in here, but that's par for the course with the Caf.
Fletcher was never considered a hot prospect and many people were surprised he was even given a chance in the first team. Some even joked it was due to him being Scottish.
I know, but i think passing can be trained to young players like Mctominay. That key pass from him to Lukaku is good sign for him to develop into that role.
That's because he was being played ahead of Ronaldo and was not playing better than him.
If he was a hot prospect then it should be easy to pin point what facet of his game he excelled at, at youth level.
He really was.
Yeah noticed this too
So was Matic his long range or mid range passing was all over the place. Scott has a great engine and was fantastic yesterday.
Yeah, I actually thought Matic was really poor in the first half, different animal in the second though. Yeah it was nice to see a bit of graft in there for once and he didn't look like getting booked for the job he was doing on him either!
Don't think he did better job than Herrera. Herrera was brilliant in that game, Hazard barely created anything and for the first time I saw Hazard not even attempting a dribble.
It's pure revisionism. Herrera done a far better job. That's not taking anything away from Scotty McT but it's fact.
Yeah, also Herrera apart from keeping Hazard out of the game, he played peach of a pass for Rashford and then scored 1 goal.
Complete nonsense. Which is all the more inexcusable coming in response to a post from @Robbie Boy with evidence about how highly rated he was. He’s not making up the stuff about Fergie wanting to give Fletcher first team football at a younger age than the PL would allow. That’s on the record. Fletcher was, by a margin, the hottest prospect to come through our academy since the class of 92.
Aye, bar his big mistake yesterday he done ok. I felt he started slow and was actually relatively poor in the first half, but he certainly picked it up second half and can hold his head high after the week he's had.
The way some remember Flecther around here is strange. I get that maybe some are too young to truly remember him breaking through, but 5 minutes of research would shed some light on just how highly rated a young Flecther was. It's incredible that some seem to believe that he was some nobody who was plucked from obscurity and just happened to make it here. The truth couldn't be more different.
I still think, had he not been suspended for that CL final things could have been different. A barca player walked through our midfield unchallenged for 1 nil, fletcher at that time would not have allowed that to happen. He really was brilliant for us forna time.
Where did I say Herrera didn´t do a great job last season? I for one like Herrera very much. I just pointed out that McT did a fantastic job and used that great game from Herrera as he got praised for it a lot and rightly so.
I didn't say you per se. It's just a general theme on here. People have suddenly forgotten just how brilliant Herrera was last season or they downplay his contribution. It's weird. I get that things haven't gone well for him this season and that's fine. But last season he was bloody immense.
Completely agree - we might not have necessarily won the game but things would have been a lot closer if Fletcher had been playing instead of Anderson in that game
100%, I've always thought so. He was in the very best moment of his career at that point, had put in some almost Keane-like performances. He was exactly the sort of player you would want in your side to face that Barcelona team.
What was outstanding about him? was it his Pogba like passing or supreme technical ability in close quarters like Ravel? I think you'll find that at youth level he didn't hold a candle to either player and he was just a young prospect unlike the two I mentioned who were both much bigger prospects than Fletcher at the same age. Fergie said alot of things in the past and I'm still waiting for Phil Jones to transform into the next Duncan Edwards..
Did you watch Fletcher play for our academy?
Funnily enough though - out of all the players who played in the Ferguson era - Darren Fletcher is the only one who I can see actually becoming a successful Manchester United manager one day
Yes I did, I never thought he was good enough to make it at first team level because he wasn't blessed with natural abilith like a Ravel or Pogba. But having said that, he had a fantastic mindset and won me over eventually with his fantastic displays for the team in many big games and proved his worth as a very important player in the first 11...
