Smalling

Originally Posted by Sparky***

£#%&!ing hell. Chris Smalling and Ashley Young at Inter Milan.


Kids, Serie A was good once - honest.

Undermined a little bit by Silvo being in the team

Originally Posted by atticusgrinch

Undermined a little bit by Silvo being in the team

Not to mention Taribo West, who went on to play for....Derby, and Plymouth

There's no f'ing way we would be lucky enough to convince Inter to pay 25m for Smalling....Conte can't be that daft

Originally Posted by Sparky***

£#%&!ing hell. Chris Smalling and Ashley Young at Inter Milan.


Kids, Serie A was good once - honest.

Did that team actually win anything ?

Originally Posted by rubbernecker

Did that team actually win anything ?

The UEFA cup.

Originally Posted by rubbernecker

Did that team actually win anything ?

unfortunately, Juventus had quite a good team at the time as well.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

unfortunately, Juventus had quite a good team at the time as well.

Those were the days

Originally Posted by elhombre

The UEFA cup.

So a bit like posting a pic of the Gothenburg Uefa winning side as proof that the Swedish League was good once

Originally Posted by rubbernecker

So nothing like posting a pic of the Gothenburg Uefa winning side as proof that the Swedish League was good once

exactly

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

exactly

Are we still pretending Maguire is a defensive titan held back by shite?

Smalling is better than him at set pieces at both ends of the pitch, Maguire is almost offensively bad on attacking corners, there's a fag papers difference one on one defensively if that and ot necessarily in Maguire's favour either, Maguire is at least as likely to spend 30 seconds playing danger ball back and forth across the defence with Lindelof and his much touted comfort on the ball doesn't in all honesty look that much different to Smalling, who could also manage Maguire's occasional Hollywood diagonal out to a full back that's 50/50 if the full back manages to keep it in with his chest / chase 10 yards back to catch the ball before it goes out of play, and when Smalling had an ill advised gallop upfield at least had the pace to outrun Juan Mata chasing back. He'd be a far better partner for Maguire than Lindelof if nothing else.

For all Smalling is routinely characterised as thick as shit he looks likely to be one of the vanishingly few English players to make a go of it in Serie A, something which 'better' and 'cleverer' players didn't have the stones for.

Maguire's greatest skill is persuading the English press that he's a World Class centre half.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Not to mention Taribo West, who went on to play for....Derby, and Plymouth

Taribo had green hair and was cool though. And was really good on ISS64.

Was shite in reality though.

Originally Posted by ScholesGingerSheen

Are we still pretending Maguire is a defensive titan held back by shite?

Smalling is better than him at set pieces at both ends of the pitch, Maguire is almost offensively bad on attacking corners, there's a fag papers difference one on one defensively if that and ot necessarily in Maguire's favour either, Maguire is at least as likely to spend 30 seconds playing danger ball back and forth across the defence with Lindelof and his much touted comfort on the ball doesn't in all honesty look that much different to Smalling, who could also manage Maguire's occasional Hollywood diagonal out to a full back that's 50/50 if the full back manages to keep it in with his chest / chase 10 yards back to catch the ball before it goes out of play, and when Smalling had an ill advised gallop upfield at least had the pace to outrun Juan Mata chasing back. He'd be a far better partner for Maguire than Lindelof if nothing else.

For all Smalling is routinely characterised as thick as shit he looks likely to be one of the vanishingly few English players to make a go of it in Serie A, something which 'better' and 'cleverer' players didn't have the stones for.

Maguire's greatest skill is persuading the English press that he's a World Class centre half.

Get where you’re coming from but... nah. Need an actual decent passer of the ball if we’re going to insist on playing out from the back, and he’s not playing in the Serie A of old. Hasn’t Young also been making a good go of it out there?

Originally Posted by atticusgrinch

Taribo had green hair and was cool though. And was really good on ISS64.

Was shite in reality though.

Hence his nickname Terrible West

I'm sure the 2 top right (Bergomi and the other I can't for the life of me remember) in the Inter picture have been in every mafia film ever.

Originally Posted by Time For Heroes

Hence his nickname Terrible West

I'm sure the 2 top right (Bergomi and the other I can't for the life of me remember) in the Inter picture have been in every mafia film ever.

Pagliuca

Originally Posted by ScholesGingerSheen

Are we still pretending Maguire is a defensive titan held back by shite?

Smalling is better than him at set pieces at both ends of the pitch, Maguire is almost offensively bad on attacking corners, there's a fag papers difference one on one defensively if that and ot necessarily in Maguire's favour either, Maguire is at least as likely to spend 30 seconds playing danger ball back and forth across the defence with Lindelof and his much touted comfort on the ball doesn't in all honesty look that much different to Smalling, who could also manage Maguire's occasional Hollywood diagonal out to a full back that's 50/50 if the full back manages to keep it in with his chest / chase 10 yards back to catch the ball before it goes out of play, and when Smalling had an ill advised gallop upfield at least had the pace to outrun Juan Mata chasing back. He'd be a far better partner for Maguire than Lindelof if nothing else.

For all Smalling is routinely characterised as thick as shit he looks likely to be one of the vanishingly few English players to make a go of it in Serie A, something which 'better' and 'cleverer' players didn't have the stones for.

Maguire's greatest skill is persuading the English press that he's a World Class centre half.

that's a massively false assessment...Maguire is pretty damn sound defensively and he's a hell of a lot better carrying the ball out of the back and passing the ball out of the back.

More so, he's a lot less prone to individual errors than Smalling and he's a much more commanding center half than Smalling ever was

Originally Posted by bosskeano

that's a massively false assessment...Maguire is pretty damn sound defensively and he's a hell of a lot better carrying the ball out of the back and passing the ball out of the back.

More so, he's a lot less prone to individual errors than Smalling and he's a much more commanding center half than Smalling ever was

Think he's a WUM mate.

Snap their damn hand off....


Manchester United have reportedly had their £23million asking price for Chris Smalling matched by Inter Milan.

Originally Posted by bosskeano

Snap their damn hand off....


Manchester United have reportedly had their £23million asking price for Chris Smalling matched by Inter Milan.

£#%&!ing hell, who knew Inter would turn out to be the new Sunderland? They must have some sort of bid for Lingard surely.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Not to mention Taribo West, who went on to play for....Derby, and Plymouth

Wasn't he about 50 then, though