Juan Mata

[Toli 977]

Benitez didn’t fancy Terry and AVB didn’t fancy Lampard. They’re still our players.

benitez was an interim manager. avb didnt even last until the transfer window opened and he got fired BECAUSE OF Lampard and Terry for a big part. obvious bullshit talking by a mourinho fanboy

[BlueLion. 21,491]

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.

Mata isn't a Mourinho-style player. Get over it. Players come and go.

Mourinho put faith in Ozil over Kaka.

He put faith in Lopez over Casillas.

Now he's putting faith in Oscar over Mata.

I'm gonna stand in his corner.

[Martina 210]

Has he handed in a transfer request?

According to "The Times" he asked to leave this morning

[cchuka 99]

At first i was raving mad about this alleged transfer

I've since sipped some b-milk and calmed down

I cant really blame him for wanting to move on. I can only thank him for what he's helped us accomplish the past few seasons.

He can help Utd scrape points off City, Arsenal and Co

Also, We will use the 40M and get trigger Diego Costas 32M release clause, with change to spare

PS - Im an eternal optimist though, so take my words with a pinch and half of salt

[Toli 977]

Mata isn't a Mourinho-style player. Get over it. Players come and go.

Mourinho put faith in Ozil over Kaka.

He put faith in Lopez over Casillas.

Now he's putting faith in Oscar over Mata.

I'm gonna stand in his corner.

Kaka was shit. thats why he opted for Özil. And Özil already played for Pellegrini. Lopez only played because Casillas was injured for a time. Really not comparable at ALL to Mata/Oscar situation.

[kobematabryant 400]

No offence but that's a bloody short-sighted view. He may help them get points off Arsenal and City or not this season. He's not going single handedly make every United player turn world class all of a sudden to turn those lots over. Moreover, he will improve United in the long term.

I agree that this view is a short sighted view, in the long run, it may or not benefit them however. We can't certainly predict how he will do at Man United. However, we need to look at positive side of things. With the arrival of Mourinho, Mata has been on the bench due to him not fitting to Mourinho's style. What is the point of keeping a player that Mourinho does not need? Considering Mourinho will be here for a while (hopefully). Selling it to Man Utd would sound most reasonable since they are giving us the most offer. Keeping Mata would damage his international and overall career as a whole. If he is not sold now, his chance of being picked for Spain Squad at Brazil would be low. He needs game time.

Farewell Mata, we love you.

[Manuf 1,448]

Mou might be a great tactician, but he's shown more than once how shit he can be with his transfers.

[Special Juan 27,421]

37M

[The Mak 4,459]

The whole point is - Mata asked to leave. José didn’t force him to join Man United, did he?

A Chelsea player asked to leave the club and join another (our rivals). It was his personal choice.

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.

[Polo7 3,496]

Mou might be a great tactician, but he's shown more than once how shit he can be with his transfers.

Which manager hasnt?

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Great article:

http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/espnfcunited/id/11843?cc=5901

We've heard time and again how selling to a direct Premier League competitor is a mistake. Other have argued how if Chelsea agree, they must not view United as a direct rival. But in this day and age, it's all nonsense. Let the market do its thing. Yes, if Mata goes to United and scores a hat-trick against Chelsea, the punditocracy will say, "Hah! What fools? See? You should never sell to a direct rival!"

Funny, though, how if Chelsea take the proposed Mata fee (latest quote: 45 million euros, approximately $61 million) and use it to buy someone who then scores a hat-trick against United, nobody is going to rise up and make that same argument. Nobody is going to bleat: "See? They should have never bought a player from a direct rival! That was United's $61 million that ended up buying the guy who scored that hat-trick!"

Players are commodities. So is cash. If the price is right, you sell or buy, no matter what idiocies the media comes up with.

If United have 40M to spend, they will get better with or without Mata, I don't think it's about improving them because if they don't get Mata now they'll get Reus or some other world class players in the summer with that kind of money.

His sale was inevitable, and I'm sure everyone would have preferred to leave it till the summer but with the world cup looming and Spain as one of the favourites, you can't really blame Mata for requesting a move away now as it doesn't look like he was going to be a key player here and most likely would not have made the WC squad. Can't blame him and won't blame him.

The only negative is that we all love him and it'll just hurt to see him at United. It hurt to see him on the bench but slowly we accepted that and I'm sure if we re-invest the monies and get stronger and win the title, it'll def help us move on.

[LegenTerry 265]

Selling a player who doesnt want to stay at the club for a decent amount to strengthen the team is good enough for me.

Yea,and he doesn't want to stay because of who?Cahill maybe?He was our best fuck*** player and he turnd him in bench player.

He is a great manager,one of my favorites but he makes mistakes and I got a felling that he acts too much like 'ou he was your best player last 2 seasons?belive me he is not good enough I know the best I'm Jose'.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

37M

[Martina 210]

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.

José doesn’t do excuses.

[edetarod 2,155]

tonight i tip my hat off to Arsenal fans, who have gone through this shit for the past decade

legends

[Polo7 3,496]

Yea,and he doesn't want to stay because of who?Cahill maybe?He was our best fuck*** player and he turnd him in bench player.

He is a great manager,one of my favorites but he makes mistakes and I got a felling that he acts too much like 'ou he was your best player last 2 seasons?belive me he is not good enough I know the best I'm Jose'.

He chose Oscar over Mata. I dont believe thats a mistake. Mata doesnt want to warm our bench. What is Jose supposed to do?

[Jay17 35]

Why can't Mou's press conference come any quicker!

[Toli 977]

Disgusting to see people being happy at this. wow.