Originally Posted by RichmondBlue:
“It's not an evil punishment, but I still think he has been treated shabbily. However many times Jose says that he continues to rate Mata, it's fairly obvious that he has issues with the player. This was clear before the season had even begun.
I just believe that someone who had been our key player for the two previous season deserved better. If he doesn't fit in with Mourinho's plans, fair enough, let him go. Besides, financially it's not in our interests to leave him sidelined so often, his perceived value must be less now than it was during the summer and probably continues to decrease.”
The only value that should come into play is the value he brings on to the pitch for 90 odd minutes every weekend and at the moment compared to other players he has not shown much value, and he has had the chances.
We have been so poor over the last 2 seasons that we only saw Mata's good points and ignored his bad ones.
I don't want to know about a key player from our last two seasons they are gone, I want to know what players provide now, that's why players like Lamps is still getting games for us and Giggs is for Man It's.
We have to get away from just a "monetary values" for players we need to also balance it out with a look what they provide us with from a game point of view, A Chelsea with Mata in the team won't win the title therefore he has little value at the moment
He is where his performance on the pitch and during training merits, Jose is a winner, he needs titles like most people need to breath, he don't have issues with players he has problems with players performances and lack of playing in a certain method, Mata is more of use to us on the bench at the moment and if in the next week or so or end of the season he is more of value being sold or even swapped for x player then so be it. No single player matters. We should only discuss the team, modern football has turned way to much into a individual sport for my liking