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29 Jun 2016 18:23:55
Not a rumour just a question. Why is everybody starting to hate on mike smalling? Last season many sung his praises, saying how he had improved so much ect. after a couple of performances in a poor england side all of a sudden he's not good enough. Feel like our fans just love to hate our players sometimes and he's becoming the new scapegoat along with rooney whos been getting it for a few years now. How about instead of saying he's not good enough. maybe get behind our players and support them as long as they are here.

{Ed007's Note - I've been saying for 2 years on here that Smalling isn't good enough for Utd and perhaps others are now seeing how poor he is when the midfield isn't set up to cover his lack of ability. Smalling is over hyped and bang average - a typical English player in fact.}

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29 Jun 2016 18:36:19
He reminds me of one of them sixties robots his movements are exactly the same.

29 Jun 2016 18:40:26
ment to say toy robots.

29 Jun 2016 18:57:41
Never really rated him, he did seem to improve this season but was probably due to extra cover being given. The ball is a hot potato at his feet, reminds me a bit of Johnny Evans with that, both a bit like bambie on ice.

29 Jun 2016 19:24:24
To be fair, it was hardly after a couple of poor international games. He was found out as a top player, every time we didn't pack the team with holding midfielders. He's a decent player, and useful to have in the squad, but I think there's plenty better. Including, dare I say it, Johnny Evans.

29 Jun 2016 19:26:53
I agree with that Stevie.

29 Jun 2016 19:55:05
hes not a crap player but there's plenty of better central defenders around, when your goalkeeper is voted player of the year 3 years running that tells me everything about the quality of defender in front of him.

29 Jun 2016 20:21:05
Thank you, Ken. That means a lot to me :)

29 Jun 2016 20:28:17
Like i said he's not what i would call world class but he has been one of our best performers last season. yes there are better players than mike but how many of them are available or obtainable? I feel if we were to buy a real leader or world class player to become his partner he would come on leaps and bounds and carry on improving. let's face it we could all count on 1 hand the amount of players in our squad from lastseason who were better than him. Maybe if he wasnt english and had a fancy name he might get more credit than a lot of you give him.

30 Jun 2016 05:30:09
dannyc why was he one of the best performers last season, we had one of the best defences in the league, that had very little to do with smalling and much more to do with van gaal's system and ddg. He looked good the same way busquets and pedro look good for barca, they are nothing great just have a system and better players making them look better than they actually are, same is the case with smalling. He isn't a bad player, but he isn't a good one either.

30 Jun 2016 13:42:51
So we had one of the best defences in the league but had nothing to do with smalling who was one of the 1st names on the team sheet. Have to agree to disagree on that one. Maybe if we go and spend big on a shiny new player with a fancy name youll be happy. but i for one would like to see him stay and cement a starting spot under jm and prove you wrong next season.







 

 

 
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