Juan Mata

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Source? Did you just make that up?

That was this morning. Someone actually posted the link to the article here in this thread.

[volfan89 97]

Yes but hardly due to Oscar winning us games is it? Hazard has been winning us games recently.

It's been due to the consistency of our 3 Attacking Mids. They play and interchange so well together. I'll tell you its not our world class striker, our solid back four, or stout CDMs winning us games.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Yes but hardly due to Oscar winning us games is it? Hazard has been winning us games recently.

Not to go into tactics too much here, but it is the role that Oscar as well the striker has been playing and their movement in the final third that is allowing Hazard to win us game recently (taking nothing away from Hazard himself, of course).

[yuvala 2,167]

Surely we have to get something out of this deal other than money which we already have ?

[OneMoSalah 8,807]

It's been due to the consistency of our 3 Attacking Mids. They play and interchange so well together. I'll tell you its not our world class striker, our solid back four, or stout CDMs winning us games.

It certainly isn't Oscar either so settle the fuck down. Mata won us games by himself creating numerous assists and scoring goals as did Drogba in the past and as Hazard has started doing now. You take Mata out of that Chelsea team in 2011-12 and 2012-13 and we'd not have been as successful.

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

To sell him is ok, to sell him to United is terrible. Sometimes people at our club really don't have a clue what are they doing. Lets see what happens.

Also Mata would turn out to be quite a hypocrite in the end, after all the love and attention he got from us. Very very disappointing.

[Thendo 1,088]

Why would we want a pre-agreement for Rooney? We are in much more need of a top striker than they are of a nr 10 playmaker right now...Getting Rooney in january could well win us the title...

[volfan89 97]

It certainly isn't Oscar either so settle the fuck down. Mata won us games by himself creating numerous assists and scoring goals as did Drogba in the past and as Hazard has started doing now. You take Mata out of that Chelsea team in 2011-12 and 2012-13 and we'd not have been as successful.

But you take him out of this team and we're in the title hunt which we haven't been in in a few years. Pick your poison bro.

[OneMoSalah 8,807]

Not to go into tactics too much here, but it is the role that Oscar as well the striker has been playing and their movement in the final third that is allowing Hazard to win us game recently (taking nothing away from Hazard himself, of course).

True but Mata could easily do the same I imagine if he had it coached into him like Mourinho has been doing with Oscar, Willian and Hazard by the looks of it. Hes not an inferior footballer to Oscar, far far from it.

[The Chels 2,502]

That was this morning. Someone actually posted the link to the article here in this thread.

From what I can see there is literally nothing on the Guardian site relating to anything like that. Would you be able to locate the link?

[bababoom 4,478]

Why would we want a pre-agreement for Rooney? We are in much more need of a top striker than they are of a nr 10 playmaker right now...Getting Rooney in january could well win us the title...

United need Rooney if they hope to finish in a CL place, no chance they will sell him now.

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

[Ryan Fong 2,776]

A little off topic question, is it true that Rooney can buy out his contract this summer and join whatever team he wants for free?

[volfan89 97]

True but Mata could easily do the same I imagine if he had it coached into him like Mourinho has been doing with Oscar, Willian and Hazard by the looks of it. Hes not an inferior footballer to Oscar, far far from it.

It's not like Mou is focusing on William, Oscar, and Hazard and telling Mata to fuck off. And the claim I'm making isnt that Oscar is superior to Mata, I'm making the claim that Oscar is the better player for us right here right now.

[bababoom 4,478]

From what I can see there is literally nothing on the Guardian site relating to anything like that. Would you be able to locate the link?

They did report that, remember seeing it earlier in the day, but it's most like BS considering bbc and sky are not reporting it.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

But you take him out of this team and we're in the title hunt which we haven't been in in a few years. Pick your poison bro.

We were in the title hunt last year sitting in third just 4 points off Utd before RDM was sacked. That was the United side that walked the League at a canter not the one currently languishing in 7th.

[Thendo 1,088]

United need Rooney if they hope to finish in a CL place, no chance they will sell him now.

Well if they want Mata they should be prepared to sacrifice something...And they have Van Persie/Welbeck/Hernandez all who probably would walk into our starting XI as it is now...

[Ryan Fong 2,776]

United need Rooney if they hope to finish in a CL place, no chance they will sell him now.

Then we must not sell them Mata to make it more possible.