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The advantage Fletcher has was that he was a better football with cleaner, superior technical qualities and a lesser reliance of physical strength.
And Fletcher actually started out as somewhat of a wonderkid we wanted to feature in the first team at the age of 16.
Maybe Mctominay will improve drastically but it's amusing how people club him with vastly superior players (first Keane now Park and Fletcher) as if he's destined to reach the top and doesn't have severe weaknesses in his game.
People assume that the likes of Park and Flecher were all effort and hence essentially carried by others, which wasn't the case. It's just that our quality was so good even our squad players tended to be very good footballers.
I wouldn’t say Fletcher was a cleaner footballer. Fletcher in his early 3 years played erratic football, he often give the possession away easily and he was known with poor positioning and also lacks of creativity. Only in 08/09 when he start hitting it to new level. You might say 06/07 he was better than in his first 3 years but not by much. Although I still see Fletcher will be more technical than Scott since Fletcher can cross but Fletcher wasn’t really that good before he was 24.