Smith not for sale, says Fergie

Sir Alex Ferguson has quashed any rumours circulating around that Alan Smith is set to leave the club having had a dreadful time at the club due to injuries and making a slow recovery of sorts. Although he has seen more action taking part in reserve team action, it was largely believed that Fergie did not hold him in the same stead as he did before especially with the arrival of Henrik Larsson and Guiseppe Rossi back into the squad. All that was obviously not true now that Fergie have put those stories to rest by coming out in full support for Smith. This is what he had to say:

“Alan is doing really well at the moment.

“We put him on a speed programme, which had an immediate effect and we have seen a tremendous improvement in him over the last month.

“He is certainly not far away now.

“I wanted to take him down to West Ham but he didn’t want to go. He just wanted to stay and train on his own. He deserves great credit for that because it is not easy.

“He doesn’t want to travel again tomorrow either, so he will be training again.”

Smith had been linked with a move to Everton and David Moyes was keen on his signature but the Scot has now dismissed that possibility out of hand with this latest press conference.

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