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Mourinho zealots already out to take swipes at Mata I see...'confirmation bias' anyone?

I doubt it's true. If he is who he says he is, then he should be happy to accept a 1 year extension. However, if it is and he puts his greed ahead of the club then I couldn't care less if he goes. We're not in a position anymore to be handing massive contracts to 30+ year olds and he knows that - 'Mr. Chelsea' of not.

Great post. I also find it funny when people bang on about the extra cash we're getting 'because United are desperate and we won't get the same in the summer'. Well...we've spent £11-12m of it on Salah already, potentially rising to £16m apparently - so there goes our so called 'profit' from the sale. Something which could've been avoided if we waiting until the summer and brought in any one of Traore, Piazon, Hazard, Atsu etc. for nothing. I mean, Salah is also young and needs time to develop as well, so why not wait and use one of the exciting youths we already have instead of reducing the chances of our current youth and also strengthening a rival? Because he's hardly going to have a big impact from now until the end of the season while on the bench. So far, this has only benefited United in my eyes and that's what I'm angry about. But the people who think Mourinho is infallible will somehow make it out that 'I'm not a true Chelsea fan' for not blindly following him. Nice isn't it?

That's a bit romantic in all honesty. Realistically, we offered a lot more for Salah than Liverpool and Basel are the ones who really decide on the matter. I'm not saying he's against coming here though, obviously. What you've said is very true for Willian though!

I read this a while ago now: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/pitchside-europe/salah-puts-himself-shop-window-again-015555303.html Here are the parts that question him: Gotta love laugh at that last line!

Eh, you mean the system where he was allowed to roam free because he was our attacking fulcrum? Oh yeah, good comparison! You're just as knowledgeable as the other guy!

Oh yeah, the whole 104mins Mata played in our first two CL games where he was trying to adapt to a new system - good comparison. Whoever said that is an idiot.

Not my point. Please see:

Your examples are all first team replacements; Mata was a squad player at Mourinho's Chelsea and that is what Salah is now - a bench player. There is always going to be an element of disappointment if we get £37m to spend and just sign a squad player. I know a squad player is still needed to replace Mata, but I don't believe we are still not any stronger than before. Only United have been strengthened. Anyway, if this was going to be the case, why not just keep Mata until the summer and sell him abroad? Sure, you may not get £37m for him, but you won't have to fucking spend £11m on another young player who won't get a proper chance to fully develop here either. We could've waited until the summer, sold Mata for less but could've picked from Traore, Piazon, Hazard etc. to take his place while not strengthening our rivals, and not spending another £11m and giving our current youth a fucking chance for a change.

This comforts me. Thank you so much.

I feel sorry for Salah on two levels. 1) Going from Mata to Salah is underwhelming to say the very least. A lot of fans with direct their anger towards this guy, but he really isn't the problem. 2) He simply won't develop properly with Hazard/Willian ahead of him. He needs constant game time and, bar a massive injury plague, he won't get that here.

Well look at the fact that we know, Mourinho doesn't fancy him. So do people ever think that the club is just being a massive knob about the whole situation? They saw the £££ signs and just want to shove him out the door a.s.a.p.? Maybe people can tell themselves that he wants away just to make themselves feel a little better about the whole thing, but why would he willingly join a sinking ship? He's constantly spoken highly of this club throughout this whole thing and spoke of fighting and doing what's best for the team. If he was being forced out the door it's a completely different story. Why would he try to stay where he's not wanted?

Well maybe he just respects the clubs position no matter how shit it is. Because that's the classy guy that he is. Maybe I'm being romantic about the whole thing, but I can't imagine him saying 'Yes. I definitely want to go to United'. More like 'oh you want me to leave...oh, ok.'.

"Hey Juan, thanks for the two years; especially for basically carrying us to the CL last season resulting in millions for the club to buy players to force you out, but we've decided to sell you to that crumbling shit up north. We know you love Chelsea and we like you, but we like the money more. Bye." Exactly what it feels like. Thanks for everything Juan, you magnificent bastard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds2l_qlTF_A

I can't get the image out of my head: Mata driving up north tonight all by himself after being forced out of the club... I'm not so sure he asked to leave. I mean, look at the fucking state of their team for christ's sake. I'm sure he'd rather stay and fight or at least move to somewhere like Atletico. God damn, I am going to miss that man. Sick that we have to see him every week wearing that red piece of shit.

At least there's definitely no trophy for United this year. Cunts. Funny thing is, their fans won't give a flying fuck and neither will the press because they're getting a top player. All the pressure on them in the past few weeks is disappearing.

You just watch him in his next conference then.

You're failing to see my point. Sorry, I don't give a fuck about anything on that list. It's got nothing to do with styles of play or putting faith in one player over another. I don't want us selling to United, end of story. Simple as. I certainly don't think people should be happy over it either. They're crumbling as we speak but we've decided to bail them out so they have a foundation to challenge for future titles. It's about having dignity as a club by not selling to the bunch of wankers who refused to do business with us in the summer. We look like absolute mugs right now and, unless you can see into the future, I don't think people should be painting this as a Mourinho masterstroke until we get the full picture - which we won't get for months at least.

Oh give over. Yes, it is well known by now that José was saying that we wouldn't sell unless he asked for the move. By him just announcing that it put pressure on Mata to do it - so of course he was, he wants to play. You can't hold it against him. It was obvious José didn't want him, so he could've just sold him but he didn't. That's because he wanted to basically force Juan to ask for the move so he would have a nice excuse to point to.

I don't care about the hierarchy. I care about people acting as if Mourinho is infallible and that selling our player of the season for the past two years to one of our biggest rivals is some sort of genius masterstroke by him - when in actual fact no one has a fucking clue how this is all going to pan out.

It's not Mourinho FC either, but some people like to act as if it is.

Sorry Juan, I still love you, but I hope those idiots use you on the wings and the only time you hear the CL music in a red shirt is on the T.V. It'll be like watching your girlfriend getting nailed by your arch-nemesis and you can do sweet fuck all about it. So thanks for that Chelsea, you literally could've sold him anywhere else. You could've even used him as a bargaining chip in a Costa deal, but no. It'll be great seeing the stupid smiles on all of my United mates while they thank me for a top notch footballer. What also pisses me off is that, if this whole thing is really just because of FFP, the thought of that Goldilocks sack of shit sitting in our treatment room who has contributed FUCK ALL compared to Mata and is somehow still at this club and on £180k a fucking week. There'll be a serious shitstorm if we don't get a massive signing either in this transfer window, the next or we end up not having enough AM cover for the rest of the season. And I've a sick feeling about this whole thing and that it's only inevitable before:

Rob Beasley is a massive bellend.

Thank fuck for that! You just enjoy yourself down there!