Liverpool legend Graeme Souness is backing Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher to return to his very best.
Souness feels it will be another year before we see Fletcher's best. He missed 18 months of football battling a serious bowel condition.
"It would please me to see Darren playing on Tuesday," Souness told the Mail on Sunday. "You go back three years and, under Sir Alex Ferguson, he would've been the first name on the team sheet - especially in the really big games.
"He was a proper midfield player and had a bit of everything - great athleticism, aggression, chipped in with not a lot of goals but goals. No one knows how illness will affect you but the fact he's back playing is encouraging.
"It might take him another six months, it might take another year. A fit Darren Fletcher gets into any England team, certainly the player that we saw three years ago."
