He’s not going for 10m euros. Newcastle want him and I’m sure they’d quite happily pay 20m for him. He’d be the best centre back at about 14 clubs in the league.
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Memory may be playing tricks on me, I always remembered being really nervous when he had the ball at his feet for some reason.
He doesn't want to go to Newcastle apparently
Yes but he doesn't want to go to Newcastle.
No surprise he doesn’t want to leave Italy.
Then the club he wants to go to can either pay something close to what he’s worth or he can stay. We aren’t a charity.
Would rather keep smalling than sell him for 10 million. Daylight robbery. I know he'd want to leave, but selling him for 10 million euros is crazy.
That's not a bad idea.
I'm not advocating for Roma. Nor for Smalling, all I say I could understand why one prospect looks better than the other.
I am sure we could just reject Roma's bid, but surely there's some gentlemen's agreement between us and Chris.
Ultimately we want him out and we want someone else to be paying his wages and collect a decent fee, but it's really hard to force a player to a certain club.
You could break the good relation between the club and the player and he could just turn around and say: "If you want me out - pay up my contract. You won't let me go to Roma, so I'll stay here, play golf and collect my wages", which is definitely not what I want.
I think it does. VDS was really good at distributing the ball.
Odd, he's probably the last keeper I was constantly calm about. Oozed class.
Van der Sar was better than De Gea with the ball at his feet, quite comfortably so in fact.
It depends on what drives Smalling, is it money or to play football. To me, it seems like football.
I am sure we have an agreement saying £15/20m and we will sell, which is why Roma keep coming back low balling United hoping we will sell for less. I wouldn't be surprised if come the last week they match our fee.
I think most fans will be pretty pragmatic about the likes of Howe and Ake going (and they got a pretty hefty amount for Ake) considering there wasnt much hope of keeping them after being relegated.
Ryan Fraser on the other hand I cant imagine getting a lot of well wishes somehow.
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Yes, but at the moment, Roma wants to buy him out of that contract, and Smalling wants to get out of that contract. Hence, they need to pay what United demand to make that happen. If Roma are not able to both offer Smalling the wage he has at United and pay the fee we want, i guess Mike needs to decide if he wants the move to Roma enough to take a wage cut. Worst case i'd say is he stays and nobody are happy. But it takes two (or three in this case) to tango, it can't be United doing everything to facilitate a move when Roma and Mike are the ones who want the move the most.The club gave him his current contract
It's weird people would want us to sell cheap because he was bought cheap. But see them praise us for buying an inferior player for more money.
United also want him gone and off the wage bill though and Smalling and Roma know that too.
Doesn't say anything. He moved for Ancelotti who is no mug and may just fancy the opportunity to make a club successful. Don't see anything wrong with that. He did well at Real Madrid, just wasn't given a run of games.
Can we not just start a GoFundMe page to make up whatever difference United are asking? I'll happily stick a hundred in the pot.
He did well? They paid about £65m for him and then loaned him out for a few years. Now sold him for peanuts to a team not even in the Ropey league. He didn't do well at all mate. Actually think fans of his harp on about that one good tournament he had with Colombia. He's been a disappointment of a player really wherever hes gone.
Sure, but as i said, they want the move the most. Smalling is not on crazy wages either, and with our crock pot of CBs we could do much worse than keeping him. His loan last season was because he wanted regular starts, and Ole couldn't promise him that. Now they have had the test sample, time to buy the full package.
The Caf should organise a watch-a-long
They don't have much money, do they? So I also think Smalling's motivation is football, rather than money.
I just went through their transfer history on transfermarkt. One summer they would have a net profit of around €40m, next two summers their net spent would sum up to around €30m.
And there's massive turnaround of players. 5-6 players going in and out every year.
So far they've spent 40 and sold for 10, they're trying to save every penny they can. It's quite possible he leaves at the end of the window as you said.
It's getting funny at this point
Asking for a friend, did you remember the name in the end?
We really need to reshape the wage structure at the mid-lower level. Just because we can give those sorts of wages, doesn't mean we should.
Unbelievable. I thought they were saying last week a deal was very close to being done for €18-20m now it’s down to €9m?
I’m not sure the board would give him all off it anyway
That fee for Smalling is getting lower every time it's reported. By this time next week, we're going to be paying them.
£20m or keep him. We could use him in the squad more than 9 or 10m Euros. That kind of money doesn't even buy you a good Championship player now.
£20m or keep him. We could use him in the squad more than 9 or 10m Euros. That kind of money doesn't even buy you a good Championship player now.
Which would make the fans even angrier.
Smalling more or less coming out and saying he only wants to go back to Roma hasn't done us any favours at all. There was interest from Newcastle and one other unnamed PL club apparently but he only wants to go to Roma. They know this and are just using that info to take the pee basically. And add on that Woodward and/or our transfer team are a total joke and basically the whole world knows it.
We rarely ever get a bargain on any new signings and we always give our players away cheap. Teams see Woodward and Judge coming a mile off.
We rarely ever get a bargain on any new signings and we always give our players away cheap. Teams see Woodward and Judge coming a mile off.
Surely we're not selling Smalling for 10 million euros. Why not just invite him to challenge for a starting spot and save the money on a new CB. It would be hard to get someone better than Smalling for less than 50 million. It just doesn't make sense. He could form a strong partnership with Maguire and make all the talk of a new CB moot.
Cheap bastards.
Imagine there'll be much more noise once internationals are done with. All very quiet right now.
Can’t see why you are all keeping the point with Smalldini at Roma here, making a very minor transaction much bigger than it is? €5m less are not going to change your finances for sure, and you had madman Conte from pennypinchers country wiping so much of your deadwood in recent times already. #FreeChris , let him enjoy the Colosseo, the sun and pizzas over here. 
I'm finding the outrage over Smalling's potential fee to Roma odd as well. Surely shifting deadwood and slashing the wage bill is more important than making an extra £10million from a sale?
Cheap bastards they are but leave him off, give him his move. He's a good guy, is not in Ole's plans and it's another chunk of wages freed up. Keep that business moving.
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