Juan Mata

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

Just waiting for the official announcement to delete all avatars/sigs of the soon-to-be Utd player i have

There is still hope

[drog.ba 239]

why we are making this so easy for them?

[The Chels 2,502]

Guardian reporting that the only thing stalling the deal is that Chelsea want a pre-agreement about Rooney in the summer. A lot of reliable sources are saying that united are interested and that we are interested in selling as well.

Source? Did you just make that up?

[volfan89 97]

You mean the version of mata that has had his confidence completely shot and out of form thanks to Mourinho? despite that still created more goal scoring chances than oscar despite playing significantly fewer games and minutes?

Great players don't let confidence get to them. Mata is a great player and I do not think that confidence is his issue.

[Amblève. 4,995]

What will we do if one of Oscar, Hazard or Willian gets injured? We would have only Schürrle available now as cover. From 3 backup options to 1 option. This deal, if at all, needs to wait till summer.

I suppose Mourinho sees Lamps as an option for the No. 10 role considering that we've got enough cover for the double pivot now.

[Jay17 35]

What's the chances of Mourinho pulling the plug on transfer deadline day so Utd don't sign any midfielder?

[Laylabelle 9,300]

Pre agreement for rooney risky injury wise etc

[didierforever 7,349]

Great players don't let confidence get to them. Mata is a great player and I do not think that confidence is his issue.

oh really? so messi against us was a case of what??? confidence is an integral part of any sports personality's game. u take that away from a world class striker and we dont need to go far to know what he becomes.

[OneMoSalah 8,615]

I see us sitting on 49 points and two away from first. So, no, I'm not blind.

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

[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 8,615]

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 8,615]

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.