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Originally Posted by Raderick
Darren Fletcher was arguably the best player on Man U this season, if not in England, yet scored, what, 3 or 4 goals all season long? The amount of goals you score isn't exactly the greatest gauge of how to rate a player.
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Darren Fletcher? Seriously? The guy who started only 37 of their 66 matches despite not having any major injuries? Would you care to explain how he was better than Vidic and Rooney?
Don't get me wrong, Fletcher seems like a useful enough player with room to improve, but he's nowhere close to the best in England. Not by a country mile. Just for the sake of having some sort of impartial starting point, Actim (which tends to overrate players on winning teams) had him at #88 on their 2008-2009 rankings. Obviously, that's not any sort of definitive judgement or anything, but you're going to have to come up with an awfully persuasive argument to convince me that a guy whose manager selected him less than two thirds of the time at the position the team was weakest at could possibly be the best player on his team.