Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has confirmed that centre-back Chris Smalling has travelled to Italy to complete a loan move to Roma. Matteo Darmian is also likely to leave by the European deadline on Monday, but Marcos Rojo is set to stay.
Smalling has been pushed out of contention this season by the summer signing of Harry Maguire, with the England international not even making it onto the bench for any of United’s opening three games of the new Premier League campaign.
The temporary switch to Italy came about earlier this week and Solskjaer’s reasoning was straightforward when quizzed about it at a press conference on Friday morning.