Smith marvels at resurgent United’s quality

MANCHESTER UNITED striker Alan Smith has revealed it was only when he finally got to Old Trafford he realised just how good his new team-mates really were.

Smith attracted the anger of Leeds fans and the suspicion of their Red Devils counterparts when he declared the hazardous cross-Pennine move was the only one he was prepared to make last summer once his home-town club had been relegated.

With big-money duo Ruud van Nistelrooy and Louis Saha already at the club and Wayne Rooney destined to join not long after, it appeared the £7m striker would be little more than back-up as United looked to wrestle the Premiership title back from Arsenal.