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title: "Manchester United: Fans react as Inter Milan willing to offer players for Chris Smalling"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/manchester-united-fans-react-as-inter-milan-willing-to-offer-players-for-chris-smalling/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Luke Seychell"
section: "Manchester United Football Club"
published: "2020-09-17T12:00:41Z"
modified: "2020-09-17T12:00:41Z"
---

# Manchester United: Fans react as Inter Milan willing to offer players for Chris Smalling

**Manchester United defender Chris Smalling looks to be on his way out of the club as he has been [heavily linked](https://thetopflight.com/2020/08/25/manchester-united-as-roma-submit-new-offer-chris-smalling/) to AS Roma. However another Serie A side are looking to hijack the deal and a lot of the Red Devils fan base are reacting to this news.**

According to [calciomercato](https://m.calciomercato.com/), and tweeted out by [utdreport](https://twitter.com/utdreport/status/1306296083715362819?s=20), Inter Milan are interested in Smalling and are entering the race for him forcefully. Inter are ready to offer one of João Mário, Ivan Perišić or Marcelo Brozović, whilst United are continuing to demand €20m (around £18 million).

Despite him struggling to perform [consistently](https://www.goal.com/en-ke/news/vidic-reveals-reason-behind-smalling-jones-struggles-at/1h48yg1sh8hsu10sop56vli817) to the level required of a Manchester United player, Smalling flourished last season in Serie A as the [30 year-old](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/chris-smalling/profil/spieler/103427) managed four clearances and 1.9 interceptions a game, per [WhoScored](https://www.whoscored.com/Players/71345/Show/Chris-Smalling), whilst also scoring three goals and supplying two assists as well as helping his team to keep [six](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/chris-smalling/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/103427/wettbewerb/IT1/saison/2019) clean sheets.

A deal with Inter involving one of the trio offered could be a good move for United as they have been [linked](https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1313741/Manchester-United-transfer-news-Ivan-Perisic-Alexis-Sanchez-Ole-Gunnar-Solskjaer-gossip) with Perisic in this transfer window, so they could get one of their targets, whilst a lot of the fan base would be happy with the prospect of Brozovic joining, and this makes sense as the midfielder seems to be a good impact at both ends of the pitch as he managed three goals, six assists and managed on average 2.1 tackles and 1.4 interceptions per game, via [WhoScored.](https://www.whoscored.com/PlayerComparison)

Here is what fans said following the news…

> Inter Milan are interested in Chris Smalling and are entering forcefully. Inter are ready to offer one of João Mário, Ivan Perišić or Marcelo Brozović. [#mufc](https://twitter.com/hashtag/mufc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) continue to demand €20m [#mulive](https://twitter.com/hashtag/mulive?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) \[calciomercato\]
>
> — utdreport (@utdreport) [September 16, 2020](https://twitter.com/utdreport/status/1306296083715362819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> I will take CL winner Perisic
>
> Amazing for depth and what a damn beast
>
> Arguably the best player on that Croatia 2018 world cup run
>
> What a beast
>
> — RaiderNation (@shazutheraider) [September 16, 2020](https://twitter.com/shazutheraider/status/1306296262317297669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Hopefully this makes Roma act up.
>
> — ً (@utdrobbo) [September 16, 2020](https://twitter.com/utdrobbo/status/1306296644107931648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> BROZOVIC I BEG 😭😍
>
> — Territory 🔱🔴 (@UTDTerritory) [September 16, 2020](https://twitter.com/UTDTerritory/status/1306296157275148288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Perisic or Brozovic please
>
> — matt🇾🇪 (@MattLUHO) [September 16, 2020](https://twitter.com/MattLUHO/status/1306296182386368515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> If they actually want to swap brozovic we have to do that
>
> — Luke (@Labile\_Life) [September 16, 2020](https://twitter.com/Labile_Life/status/1306296220244234243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Brozovic is one of their best players, I would take him in a heartbeat
>
> — Mike🔰🔰 (@Mike99371) [September 16, 2020](https://twitter.com/Mike99371/status/1306296243036065799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***Man United fans, what are your thoughts on this? Comment below!***