When did anyone last benefit from a ManU reject?

Not having it. Complete myth, our midfield was utter cack first half of the season. We used to get outpassed and outran in the centre away from home all the time and fairly frequently at home.

That division is ****ing ****e so we managed to get away with having cloggers in the middle who are scared of possession of the ball. If we'd hit on our best midfield a bit earlier we'd have took everybody to pieces.

 

Anyway, that aside, we hardly benefited from signing him like the thread title says. The guy has been the worst signing we've made in a decade, a complete fraud of a footballer who'd not get a game at Victoria Park.

 

Smith did a job in our time of need in the championship... its annoying how people gladly come out now and slag them off just because we have outgrown the need for them.

 

Well im sorry but finishing top of the league by quite a way, to me, is taking them to pieces. that division is not what you say it is at all .. there are good teams in that league.. Swansea have come up, making very few signings, and ripped a few teams to bits this season and played very very well against Man u .. Its a real test to a modern premiership footballer to have to go into the CCC and deal with the extra physicalality that the Championship offers.

 

And yes he would, for deffinite.

 

I thought for the first 10-15 games of the Championship Season, Smith was one of our best players. I just wish he'd bugger off there, it's where he belongs now.

 

The guy was signed for £6 million and has picked up 70k a week for nearly 5 ****ing years. He deserves no respect and no thank you for the 'job' he did in the Championshit.

It took a drop down a division for him not to be a total and utter liability. He spent the first half of the season kicking people and being frightened of possession but of course that was his new role as a 'defensive midfielder'. Fact is the guy offers nothing a defensive midfielder should do.

There was no need for a designated defensive midfielder in the Championship, nevermind a failed striker pretending to be one. We should have been playing proper midfielders there from the first game and stomped all over the opposition.

He's a ****ing leach.

 

Fabien Barthez

 

What an absolute load of rubbish. The division is vastly inferior to the top flight technically, tactically and physically. Premiership players should have absolutely no problem playing in that division, fact is, Smith isn't one.

 

I've seen Gary Liddle and Paul Murray successfully pass a football more than 5 yards. Can't say the same about that ****ing albatross Smith.

 

Its a less technical therfore more physical, straight forward, ruggid league .. i genuinally agree with nothing you are saying. If you watched that season you would know that he played a good part in that season for us .. and i know many, many others on here would agree with me over you.

For the record, he is not good enough now and we should get rid .. but down playing his part in the CCC is stupid.

 

Yes and i've also seen pools over run a lot in midfield for the past few season. Im a season ticket holder and so see them quite a bit.

 

Players with superior technical ability thrive in the Championship, because it's **** and you are afforded far more time and space on the ball. The physicality is weaker, Premiership players are much faster and stronger. You get an extra second for almost every decision, the players touches are far poorer, the players are slower, your mistakes go unpunished, teams are far less dynamic tactically. Everything about the league is significantly poorer.

I watched just about every one of games that season, and Smith held us back for half a season. We ground out away wins playing utterly turgid stuff when it wasn't necessary. All it took was signing Wayne Routledge and playing a midfield 4 of players in the right position and suddenly we tore everybody apart.

Same.

 

We did take everyone apart, lost 4 times all season, unbeaten at home, got over 100 points Everyone knows that is not an easy league as you seem to think but a very difficult one, we had the lads who were up to the task.

 

Really don't believe the hype that the premiership is technically, tacticlly and physically better, especially the way that a lot of teams have performed this season.

Smith was great for us that season, not only what he did on the pitch but also leading the team. Yep he's on a big salary, but if the company you worked for downsized would you drop your salary.

 

um, our current first choice right back? Danny Simpson? Who never got a game for manU

 

Turgid? Are you sure you know what that means? Smith was decent in the CCC anyway.

 

It is, by a fair distance in every department too. The Championship is dross, we romped to it despite spending half a season without a proper midfield and playing terrible football.

Smith deserves no thanks for anything. He should be apologising to us for being so useless and inadequate that we ended up there in the first place. Same goes for the rest of the 'group of lads'.

 

not exactly smiths fault he came in during our spurt of silly fees and wages.

it seems a lot of our fans aint happy unless they have players in the team to slag off.

 

Thats a load of bollocks. The championship is probably the hardest division to get out of. Look at West Ham, they were expected to walk it this season, yet they're having to rely on southampton ****ing up. There are plenty of talented sides in the Championship. Look at swansea, they seem at home in the PL, despite having the same squad (basically) that they used last season in the championship.