Quote Originally Posted by tHeArAb View Post
I'm not sure I've ever suggested anyone is saying it's a must do?

If I can put it a simpler way (since Watt played in front of Freeman for large parts) .....do you think Freeman could've played the Watt role in the second half last night? I don't. We'd be asking him to play with his back to goal half the time. It's not his game. His game is running onto the ball, always having play ahead of him. He reads the game a certain way as a full back. It's a different proposition playing further forward. This 'moving full backs into midfield' seems to have been an obsession with Utd fans for a while, moreso on the left however. I can't really think of any full backs who have progressed to middle of the park come to think of it.

Anyway, it's a bit of a pointless debate as it's not going to happen imo so I'll leave it there. Back to the OP....... Freeman over Smith every day of the week. 👍🏼
Not going to happen? After watching Smith transition easily into a midfield role do you stand by this, and your comment that Smith is at best back up? Sorry to resurrect this but you were extremely quick to dismiss the whole idea.