The Skipper

Bale was 100m euros but wow if true.

I don't think anyone said Willian was terrible - the signing at the time just didn't make sense to a few people - it had nothing to do with his talent. Negredo and Suarez were signed to challenge for the first team, not as squad players. My main gripe is that he isn't much better than some of the loanees we have out there already, so signing him as a squad player for £16m would be annoying seeing that Bertrand Traore, Piazon or Atsu could have a similar impact too.

£16m. Wow.

Many will incorrectly view him as Mata's replacement. Me, personally, I would rather give someone like Traore, Piazon or Atsu that spot because he's not significantly better than any of those.

Tbf, before that Robben was known as a big game bottler, and this is coming from someone who really admires Robben and has avidly followed his whole career. I was delighted with him last year because he finally stepped up in those huge games. He deserved it, I didn't want him to go down as a great player that just bottles it in big games. I don't know if you remember him spurning the best chances of the game in the WC Final...

Good loan considering Wigan play his sort of football. Josh needs to step it up.

If we're looking towards the future then Salah is not a great signing at all considering we have the likes of Piazon and Bertrand Traore in the wings. Even Atsu. He is not significantly better than any of those. I'd be very annoyed with this signing.

Willian and Hazard link up very nicely, but Oscar hasn't developed that chemistry yet, you know the same one he has with Neymar for Brazil.

Hope he goes. Love the bison but we don't need him anymore. Wishing you the best big Mike.

I would just prefer us giving Bertrand Traore that spot tbh.

I really hate how his face is pretty much plastered everywhere outside The Bridge.

I really hope so. The kid's got everything in his game, if he could just consistently prove he has finesse in the final third he'd be almost unplayable.

The Mata transfer will put a lot of pressure on Oscar. I hope he starts fully proving that we'll be fine without Juan - I want him to step up and consistently provide those killer passes. I hope he has that in his locker. He needs to be a lot more creative in the final third.

This is stupid, because we didn't receive a £37m offer for Drogba, JT or Lampard.

You mean the man that was forced to jump on a sinking ship. Whether he ends up saving it shall be remained to see.

I wouldn't mind this tbh.

Mata is not being sold because he wants to go, he's being sold because we've received a pretty high bid and Mourinho doesn't rate him in his system. Can't really blame Juan.

Pfft. Surely Mourinho can't be that desperate for a left footed right winger. Salah seems like a Liverpool signing if anything.

Salad would be a ridiculous buy IMO. I know Jose wants his inside forward right winger but surely we can do better than that.

Nah, Sneijder has brilliant vision, which is one thing Oscar hasn't got (yet hopefully) in his game. Sneijder has insane technique in a lot of things he does, so I wouldn't compare him to Oscar at all.

Carrick isn't at the top of his game but having a willing runner like Cleverley or Fellaini might reduce that offset. I still think Carrick is a great link between defence and attack but obviously United in general just aren't having a good season.

BBC Sport (who are more credible) have confirmed that we've accepted a bid of around £37m and that Mata is having his medical tomorrow.

United have a link between their attack and midfield - he's called Carrick. We haven't had a player like that until we signed Matic. It's what we've missed and is exactly why we're so vulnerable when Mata does play in the centre. The funny thing is we've actually fixed a lot of that through Matic now; but we'll never know since Mata's gone now. I would not be surprised if he had an Ozil like effect on United.

I can't believe we are actually doing this.

I can't believe this is actually happening.