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MU Resmi Lepas Fletcher ke West Brom
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Manchester - Setelah kepindahannya ke West Ham batal terwujud, Darren Fletcher pada akhirnya meninggalkan Manchester United. MU resmi mengumumkan telah melego Fletcher ke West Bromwich Albion.

Dikutip dari situs resmi West Brom, Fletcher dikontrak selama dua setengah tahun dengan opsi satu tahun. Ia akan mengenakan kostum dengan nomor punggung 24, sama yang dipakainya saat di MU.

Dengan kepindahan ini, Fletcher menutup kariernya di Old Trafford yang sudah berjalan sekitar 20 tahun atau sejak masuk di skuat junior. Di tim senior, pesepakbola berusia 31 tahun ini sudah tampil di 342 pertandingan di seluruh kompetisi.

Selama berseragam MU, Fletcher telah membantu timnya meraih lima titel juara Premier League, dua Piala Liga, satu Piala FA, Liga Champions, dan Piala Dunia Antarklub.

"Darren Fletcher telah mengakhiri hubungannya yang panjang dengan Manchester united setelah bergabung West Bromwich Albion dalam sebuah kesepakatan yang terjadi di hari terakhir bursa transfer," bunyi pernyataan di situs resmi MU.

"Darren meninggalkan Old Trafford dengan semua orang mengharapkan semua yang terbaik untuk sebuah masa depan yang sukses."

Kontrak Fletcher bersama MU baru habis pada musim pans nanti. Tapi MU bersedia memberikan Fletcher secara cuma-cuma supaya si pemain bisa pindah ke klub lain di bursa musim dingin ini.

Transfer Fletcher bukan satu-satunya aktivitas 'Setan Merah' di Januari ini. MU juga telah resmi menjual Wilfried Zaha dengan status permanen kepada Crystal Palace.

Tidak disebutkan berapa nilai tebusannya, namun pemain berusia 22 tahun itu setuju dikontrak selama 5,5 tahun ke depan.

Di sisi lain, MU turut mendapatkan pemain baru setelah resmi meminjam bek muda Inggris Andy Kellet dari Bolton Wanderers sampai akhir musim ini. Sebagai bagian dari kesepakatan, MU juga meminjamkan gelandang mudanya Saidy Janko ke Bolton.

[Andi Istiabudi]

SAH !!!

[penk22_]

Goodbye Fletcherinho, thank you for your memories
352 penampilan dan 24 goal dimana salah satunya pas United dibantai City 6-1 aja, untung ada Fletcher coba ga ada kan bisa 6-0 tuh





Fletcher : "Aku meninggalkan United tapi aku punya begitu banyak kenangan indah & harus tahu begitu banyak orang-orang hebat. Aku pergi dengan senyum di wajahku."

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Fletcher Akui Dirinya Digandoli United

Bola.net - Darren Fletcher mengatakan bahwa Louis van Gaal tidak ingin dirinya pergi dari Manchester United, tak lama usai sang pemain resmi pindah ke West Brom.

Pemain berusia 31 tahun tersebut mengikat kontrak dua setengah tahun dengan kubu The Hawthorns, usai ia tidak mendapat terlalu banyak kesempatan bermain di Old Trafford musim ini.

"Manchester United tidak ingin saya pergi. Saya banyak mengalami momen baik dan buruk bersama United dan saya tidak ingin kehilangan hal tersebut. Klub memperlakukan saya dengan baik, terutama ketika saya baru saja kembali dari sakit parah dan fans juga amat fantastis," tutur Fletcher pada talkSPORT.

"Saya pemain profesional dan saya ingin bermain. Saya tidak terlalu banyak bermain seperti yang saya inginkan dan sekarang waktunya menjalani tantangan baru," pungkasnya. (talk/rer)

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Paul Scholes column: It was a joy to play alongside Fletch – a superb team man. I wish him all the best at West Brom




I can still recall the time Darren Fletcher arrived at Manchester United as a 15-year-old kid from Scotland with a big reputation and I played with him on the day he made his reserve team debut as a teenager and impressed us with his determination and his will to win. You don’t spend 16 years of your life at Old Trafford without a lot of talent and a strong personality.

Fletch left for West Bromwich Albion on Monday, bringing to an end another one of those careers at United that has stretched all the way from the academy to the first team. Along the way he has had to overcome some major challenges. In his early years he took some stick before he established himself as a big part of the team and then, of course, there was his battle with ulcerative colitis which could so easily have ended his career.

First of all, Fletch is a great lad. He was a very popular figure in the United dressing room. There was no nonsense from him. He said what he thought to people. He would take the mickey out of anyone. He got on with his team-mates. Most of all he was an excellent footballer. No one at United got a free ride – not even if you happened to be Sir Alex Ferguson’s only Scottish player.



I would say that Fletch’s greatest asset is his ability to get around the pitch. He has the strength and the speed to get to the opposition player in possession and win the ball. I really enjoyed playing with Fletch. He is technically excellent, he can read the game and he is a superb team player. He never plays for himself. He did what was right for his team and got the best out of players around him.

For a good few years he became central to what the team did and there were so many Champions League nights when he was important to us. He played very well in the run to the 2009 final and was then suspended for the game in Rome. By then he had already been diagnosed with his condition, although none of us knew.



I think his greatest performance for United was the 2004 FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal. He was all over Patrick Vieira that day. The two teams in the other semi-final were Millwall and Sunderland so we knew that whoever won was going to be runaway favourites for the Cup. Fletch did as much as anyone to get us there.

In more recent years, Fletch was fighting to recover from his condition and there were times when we saw him and wondered if he would ever come back. He lost a lot of weight and was grey for certain periods. He would come back in for a training session and then not be able to take part in the next. Having always known him as such an energetic and bubbly character, that was shocking to see.

No one would have blamed him if he had decided to call it a day. He took a while to make up his mind over whether to have the operation on his large intestine, which was a success and put him on the road to a comeback two years ago. I know that the support of the manager, Sir Alex, was so important to him over that time.



When you are injured or ill as a footballer for a long period of time, the question on your mind is first, “Will I come back at all?” And then you find yourself wondering, “If I do come back, will I be the same?”

I never dwelt on that second question. My feeling was that you did your best but that, ultimately, you could never control these things. Fletch’s experience with ulcerative colitis was horrendous. The closest I got to a career-ending condition was a dispersed blood clot on my eye that clouded my vision.

I suppose the fact that today I am not sure which eye it affected – the left one, I think – tells you that the problem has gone away, for now at least. I first recognised it when I was playing a game at Birmingham City in December 2005 and looked up into one of the floodlights. My vision just went in that affected eye. I also suffered from migraines at the time so I assumed it was related to that.

Looking back, I should really have told the manager that I needed to come off but I never liked doing that. The next time the ball came over to me I looked up and saw three footballs instead of one. I thought, ‘Sod it, I’ll just hit the middle one’.

The doctors told me that I was not to do any physical exercise for six months. I didn’t play again until the start of the next season and because I wasn’t allowed to do any running I had to get back into condition first. The first step to coming back was to work with the goalkeepers, firing shots at them with the goalkeeping coach Tony Coton. I quite enjoyed it.

Of course, I wondered whether my sight would be the same when I came back. Generally my vision is good, I don’t need contact lenses or spectacles. I had been coached as a youngster at United by Eric Harrison to be very aware of what was around me in a game – both team-mates and opponents. Finding space was a major part of my game. I didn’t fancy doing it with just one eye.

My condition was nothing like as bad as what Fletch went through. He missed two years as a United footballer, with all that that entails – being away from his team-mates, playing games at Old Trafford and winning the Premier League title in 2013. I won’t be the only United fan looking out for West Brom’s results from now on this season, and wishing the best to a former team-mate who never gave up – whatever the challenge.

More article klik here via independent.co.uk

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Pemain cerdas lainnya akhirnya pergi. Angkat topi utk Fletcher. Kami sangat rindu sosok seperti itu

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Goodbye Fletch...
Thank you for all you have done and given in Manchester United.

Good Luck..!!

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goodbye fletch...

semoga sukses di klub barunya

[rondwisan]

And guess what …, he's directly become a baggies Captain …

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Originally Posted by rondwisan

And guess what …, he's directly become a baggies Captain …