Bradford City midfielder Jenson Metcalfe on Max Power's unique influence - plus praise for Sheffield United legend

By common consent, the Bradford City midfielder has been one of the individual success stories at Valley Parade in 2025-26.

Having picked up plenty from his loan spell at Chesterfield last season alongside Sheffield United legend Fleck, he is now benefitting from the presence of Bantams captain Max Power next to him this term.

The Everton academy product said: "They (Power and Fleck) are two brilliant pros and both very good lads, whop have had very good careers.

"When I was at Chesterfield, I was looking at John's career and I was just thinking 'I want this the same as I'm doing here now'.

"I know Max's career and I want the same thing. I want the same career and they're both different pros.

"I'd say Max is more just 'at it', he's in the gym and all that. Flecky is just a chilled pro and just keeps himself to himself but his talent shows in the same way as Max on the pitch."

Power’s input recently extended to forwarding some video clips to Metcalfe as a pointer regarding a particular area of his game.

Metcalfe added: "Clips are a huge part of the game. The clips are just improvements, you won't really clip things when you're doing something very good.

"You'll more look at where you can improve and then the only thing you can do is take it to your next game."

In terms of the step from their fourth tier to third, Metcalfe - while not yet being the finished article, for sure - has made a pretty seamless transition.

He commented: "It's a little bit similar, if I'm being honest.

"As you go up, you're going to face better players, but there's obviously some very good talent in League Two and then with the step up at the beginning, I was like: 'whoa', which is normal.

"You've got to adapt and I think I've adapted well."

City are inactive today and return to action on Good Friday when they host struggling Northampton Town.