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Roma bid €12m for Manchester United defender Smalling as transfer talks re-open

Roma have re-opened transfer talks with Manchester United over Chris Smalling, Goal has learned, with a €12 million (£11m/$14m) offer on the table.

The England international defender spent the 2019-20 campaign on loan at Stadio Olimpico.

Having slipped down the pecking order at Old Trafford, the 30-year-old centre-half was allowed to take on a new challenge in Italy. Smalling flourished in Serie A, with his experience proving to be a useful asset at ambitious Roma.

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He was forced to return to Manchester when the initial agreement ended, with United preventing a player they still own from completing Roma's protracted Europa League campaign.