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Originally Posted by mlyons
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.
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It'll be really hard for me to persuade anyone other than to watch tapes of him play and was lights out in his passing and challenges. The only reason why he started 1/2 of United games was because of Sir Alex's revolving door of midfielders all season long between Scholes, Giggs, Carrick, Anderson, Park and Nani.