Fletcher

The club are making an announcement on his long term fitness shortly apparently. Sounds ominous.

It's the bad kind.

Couple of United lads on Twitter saying club are to announce something RE: his fitness this afternoon.

Looks like the Crohn's disease could be true

rip in peace the zone of terror
you were once part of the axis of evil
but you rose above it
and now they play for sunderland

poetry worthy of rawk

Yeah, we know.

Rwta Fletch

retiring.

so the club are making an announcement why we're losing our third centre midfielder this year and we're still not moving in january

is what will happen

Originally Posted by thenorthwillriseagain

so the club are making an announcement why we're losing our third centre midfielder this year and we're still not moving in january

is what will happen

We bought Phil Jones in the summer he's a midfield player...

Originally Posted by Ginners

retiring.

just seen what you put on twitter

Originally Posted by RedMenace

The club are making an announcement on his long term fitness shortly apparently. Sounds ominous.

source?

Originally Posted by redhegemony

source?

The Times twitter feed.

Originally Posted by thenorthwillriseagain

so the club are making an announcement why we're losing our third centre midfielder this year and we're still not moving in january

is what will happen

Gibson's fit again though.

Poor sod, no wonder he has been shit.

As this started a while a go makes it even more ridiculous that we didnt buy a cm in the summer

Taking an extended break from football for health reasons

SSN

On behalf of Darren Fletcher, Manchester United wishes to announce that he is taking an extended break from football for health reasons.

Over the past year he has had several absence periods which we have attributed to a viral illness in order to respect his right to medical confidentiality. Darren has, in fact, been suffering from ulcerative colitis (a chronic inflammatory bowel condition) for some time preceding this.

Whilst he was able to maintain remission of symptoms for a considerable period this has proved more difficult recently and Darren’s continued desire to play and his loyalty to both his club and country has probably compromised the chances of optimising his own health and fitness.

He has therefore accepted medical advice to take an extended break from the demands of training and playing in order to afford the best chance possible of achieving full remission once again.

We request that his privacy is respected and hope that the removal of the additional stress associated with speculation regarding his health will also aid his recovery.

Ulcerative colitis, which is basically Crohn's. That makes sense. Otherwise healthy people who are as skinny as he has always been usually have some sort of digestive reason for it.

Poor lad.