y va marquer wrote:
I'm just trying to figure out how people can be so categorical in their assessment of Cleverly given that he's hardly played this season.
Seems premature to me.
He gets an awful lot of praise, especially on here, and I've watched him a load of times over the years; for Watford maybe 10 times, for Wigan maybe another 5 times, for the U21s numerous times, and I've seen him live at Old Trafford this year, and caught most of his other appearances - and I have never seen anything more than a decent player in him. Not an England starter in any way, shape or form.
He's a decent little player, with decent technique, decent mobility; decent - nothing outstanding about him.