Juan Mata

[Santiago. 1,500]

But do you know WHEN they will join the team? Will they get a few days to go on holidays or will they arrive the same the rest of Spain does?

Unfortunately not much of a holiday. They join the squad May 25th

[Amblève. 4,995]

Unfortunately not much of a holiday. They join the squad May 25th

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I won't see them. Fucking shit! That can't be fair. It just can't be. I'll be off to Berlin that day, why can't they arrive ealier?

Thanks for the info, anyway.

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2148085/Juan-Mata-park-opens-Oviedo.html?ITO=1490&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

A park in his home town Oviedo has been named after him and he got another thing too...

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

A bit off-topic but Mata's penalty miss had me thinking.

I remember a topic around the middle of the season in which the topic starter expressed his fears of how we may be turning into the Arsenal of 06-10, playing the entertaining "proper" football that both the owner and the fans have been craving for. The thing that the topic starter was concerned about is how we bottled games and threw away results in the very same manner that Arsenal team did. We set new records for goals conceded in the last 10-15 minutes of the game and gave away the cheapest of goals in games that we were by far the better footballing side.

Yesterday Drogba and Lampard scored their penalties while Mata failed to. AVB's Chelsea was built around Mata. Mourinho's Chelsea (and all our successful sides since he left, including Ancelotti's) was built around Drogba and Lampard. Players that had at the time, and yesterday proved once again they still do, the strength of character needed in football, the winner's strength. A strength the serial bottlers of Arsenal lacked, a strength that Mata lacked last night.

Apart from the footballing side of things (tactics, footballing style, substitutions, transfers, individual performances, rotten luck) and what the media forced us to consider pivotal (manager-players relations) the thing that IMO caused the downfall of AVB's Chelsea was coming to a successful club and trying to start from almost zero with players that were largely untested and unproven at this level and under this kind of pressure.

Winning sides are built around winners.

WOW, Talk about reading way too much into a Penalty miss.........

[Sheva. 5,373]

Congrats Juan, what a year for him

[Fulham Broadway 17,311]

how about this stat...

Mata ran more than 16,000 metres in the game (over 10 miles)!

Having played most games this season, you would forgive him for tiring

Player of the Season indeed

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Mata ran more than 16,000 metres in the game (over 10 miles)!

[RamiCFC9 258]

1 Season and already a legend JUAN MATA !!

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

how about this stat...

Mata ran more than 16,000 metres in the game (over 10 miles)!

Having played most games this season, you would forgive him for tiring

Player of the Season indeed

I think he runs the most every game. Even more than Ramires. Pretty amazing. Now, if we could move the ball even quicker and be a more attacking force then his influence could get DOUBLED.

[Term-X 7,891]

Fair play to David luiz for being with him in his hour of need. After what he's done for us this season, Mata didn't deserve to be the villain.

[Jase 43,479]

It's just great to see someone as positive and enthusiastic as Luiz in the dressing room.

[Jusek 2,031]

Great pics. One just can't dislike this little Spaniard, what a great person and footballer. Perfect signing.

[HRiver 1,512]

Luiz seems like a great friend indeed.

[captainjt26 106]

Great pics , nice to see Mata got the support he deserved.

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

Love the togetherness in the squad. Torres and Mata are just brothers, their a family.