Sam Smith
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Sam Smith, The Forward Who Finishes Chances
Smith worked through a string of loan spells early in his career before finding real consistency at Cambridge United, where he scored heavily enough to earn a permanent return to Reading. His output there stayed just as high. Manager Phil Parkinson described him simply as a striker who has done really well over recent seasons, a modest description for a forward who has rarely gone quiet for long at either club.
Wrexham paid a club record fee to bring that scoring rate into the Championship, betting that a player built almost entirely around finishing chances rather than creating them can keep producing at a tougher level. The obvious tension is whether a striker who has thrived mostly in League One and League Two gets the same volume of chances against Championship defences. Those defences sit deeper and concede far less space in behind.
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