Manchester United did not handle my move to AS Roma well, admits Chris Smalling

This came after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer indicated that he wanted to keep Smalling at the club, as a back-up to Harry Maguire but things clearly changed in the days before the window shut. It has seen Smalling admit, in light of what was a complicated move, that Manchester United did not handle the move well and left him in a bad situation. The defender further added that he was frustrated because he knew his days at the club were numbered but he wasn’t given time to make a plan.

“I guess that was maybe the lowest point at United. That was the shock I didn’t expect. How it was handled... if I was told earlier that summer - and I don’t want to have a dig at Ole - I would have made other plans. I knew that my days under Ole were pretty much numbered. I was just a bit frustrated. One, I would like to have been told earlier and then, secondly, I was only able to go with just a day left of the Italian window being open,” Smalling told the Telegraph.