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Constant knee injuries? I don't know anything about this player, but we had Robben and sold him for the same reason... I wouldn't want a player who is made of glass.

Let's see... Tejera was a youngster but never broke through, Torres and Romeu obviously, Del Horno, Ferrer... and maybe someone more but can't remember. 6th might be right.

LOL

@GuillemBalague Mata is a clever player between the lines but not the quickest winger. His intelligence and vision makes him the ideal Torres helper @GuillemBalague 28m euros for Mata... yesterday I met Villas Boas, expected all sorted by Sunday and since then player and coach have spoken

COME ON UDINESE!

lost in (google) translation then

and how can marca even know the number... the number is given during personal contract talks, not between club negotiations

how reliable is AS?

Yeah, they are a dodgy source, but it's better than nothing Hopefully they're right on this one

those tweets or obviously based on Marca.... afaik marca isn't that reliable, but this article didn't have a question mark in it, so I am more optimistic than I was yesterday

The deal looks close, hoping to read it soon on skysports or some other reliable source

Ok, fair enough... I was more generally responding to people who attack AVB's decisions aggressively, almost with a "sack that shit" type of feeling and who are having preconceptions based on one game. Everybody calls for club's patience in its manager, but the fans never seem to have patience of their own. If it was up to the fans, he'd probably be already sacked

I think it's a matter of clubs not paying. I read somewhere that €50m are owed to players of lower rank teams. They don't get enough tele broadcast revenue as opposed to the big clubs, so they don't have funds to pay. Anyway, I don't if it's true.

You think otherwise? I trust AVB's judgement on those matters a bit more... a lot more actually

How do you know he won't be played? You guys should stop judging the team's selection like it was for the whole season... based on the hardest away game in the league... Josh would have been broken in half in that game + Lampard was probably more effective in defending their set pieces. Playing a youngster the whole season in every game can have an undesired effect, that's why they come to regular football gradually over a period of time, not in a bang and then take over the world immedietaly. Some of you guys are unbelievable.... if he hasn't even touched the ball for the first team in a month or two, then I'm in on it, but now... I wish some people would just shut the fuck up over the team selection as if they were all Van Gaals, Bobby Robsons and Mourinhos. Many people were sceptical over playing Torres, they were proved wrong... why do you think Josh would have done better than Lamps in that game? None of the teams in pre-season put that kind of pressure on our players like Stoke, none of them closed you down like that, none of them were hoofing long balls and tackling as if there was no tomorrow. Have some faith in our manager will you?

Why ask so much? We don't know... read the news and make up your own mind. At the moment it looks 50/50, either we get him or not.

how much does he make at us?

Liverpool paid him less than Atletico?

You're right. Messi is more of a second striker, Ronaldo is a utility player on attacking front and Neymar is listed as forward in wikipedia... so none of them are pure wingers, Ronaldo probably the one being the closest. And I actually like that Mata isn't one dimensional, that he can play on wings and in centre, shows some versatility and that he has different qualities... hopefully he has intelligence to play only one of the roles he's assigned, not drift out of it always.

my reaction to that was similar to...

either that or place in reserves

So many times that it has become a cliche

try explaining that to them

We heard it here first? I'm sorry but the same exact thing has been repeated over and over again for the past 3 months or more