West Bromwich Albion have offered Darren Fletcher a new two-year contract that would keep the club captain playing past the age of 35.
Fletcher is being rewarded with extended terms after featuring in all 82 Premier League games for West Brom since moving to the Hawthorns in 2015, and leading the team to a potentially record-breaking season.
The Scotland international’s current deal expires at the end of next season but manager Tony Pulis feels Fletcher, 33, has plenty of mileage left and has pushed for a contract that runs until 2019.
Fletcher’s lasting influence is all the more impressive after he was forced to take an extended break from the game between December 2011 and January 2013 while battling ulcerative colitis, the chronic bowel disease which threatened to force him into early retirement at Manchester United and required serious surgery.