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Default Re: Perpanjangan kontrak Tom Cleverley, pantas kah?

MEN Sport debate: Should Tom Cleverley get a new deal?

Tom Cleverley has been one of the talking points of Manchester United's season - here MEN Sport looks at both sides of the debate over a potential new deal for the midfielder.



Tom Cleverley has been one of the talking points of Manchester United's season - here MEN Sport looks at both sides of the debate and asks should he be handed a new deal.

Read an argument for Cleverley getting a new contract - which is reportedly on the horizon - and one against and then vote on which analysis is more convincing in the poll at the bottom.

Yes - Rob Dawson

We've been here before.

It happened with Ryan Giggs. It happened with David Beckham. More recently it's happened with Darren Fletcher and Jonny Evans.

Danny Welbeck has suffered through something similar, too.

Like Tom Cleverley, they are all academy graduates and they all took their fair share of criticism early in their Manchester United careers.

Cleverley hasn't played well this season - he's admitted as much himself - but there aren't many of David Moyes' squad who can say they have.

He might be 24-years-old but in the context of his career at Old Trafford he's still inexperienced.

After injury robbed him of his first season as a member of the first-team squad, this is only his second full season in the team. Welbeck is a year younger but has played 50 games more.

Cleverley is treading a well-worn path.

He was built up as United's next star after his impressive performance as a second-half substitute against Manchester City in the 2011 Community Shield.

But since he has been knocked down - 'he doesn't get forward enough', 'he only passes sideways', that sort of thing.

But only last season he was part of the midfield that won at City and Chelsea.

Like Giggs and Beckham, Fletcher and Evans, Cleverley can still come out the other side. They have all proved their doubters wrong and there's no reason why Cleverley, still learning on the job, can't do the same.

No - Simon Bajkowski

Football - like much in life - comes down to timing.

If Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hadn't been in the box on that balmy evening against Bayern, England may never have had treble-winners.

If David Moyes had moved a day earlier for Daniele De Rossi this summer, the season could have taken a different turn.

The same rule applies to Tom Cleverley.

For what it's worth, I'm not against giving the England man a new deal indefinitely - but surely it can wait.

This season has already had enough bemusing announcements, from the Nani contract to the myriad of sponsorship deals compared to the lack of transfer activity.

Choosing the point when the player is getting more flak than ever from fans is not the wisest move.

Cleverley has 18 months left on his deal: the sensible option would be to wait until next season to assess his performance rather than jumping to sign him on in case rivals snap him up.

The argument for the England international will come that United don't readily give up on their academy products.

So like John O'Shea, Phil Bardsley, Wes Brown, Ravel Morrison, Robbie Brady etc then.

All were given ample chances at Old Trafford but at some point the decision was made that they were not Manchester United quality, and has the team suffered without them? No.

If Cleverley falls into that bracket - where many fans currently see him - then the best thing for the good of rebuilding the team is to get rid.

Alternatively, if his stock goes the same way as Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher and appreciates over time, no harm will have come from waiting, and the footballing world will be too busy praising England's answer to Andres Iniesta to even remember this season's form.

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