Originally Posted by Cantona07:
“Sometimes players don't fit in with managers for one reason or another. For some reason the manager who will lead you to great things didn't fancy Mata so i guess he becomes a casualty of that.
In the end we get a player that i am absolutely chuffed about signing, but you guys get £37m for a player who Mourinho simply wasn't going to pick anyway.
Personally i think that everyones comes out of this transfer with great credit. Chelsea, Man Utd , Mourinho, Moyes and Mata. Everyone has treated everyone else with great respect and spoken REALLY well in the media. None of the usual back stabbing and one-upmanship. Sometimes a deal just suits everyone and i think this is one of those times.”
“Sometimes players don't fit in with managers for one reason or another. For some reason the manager who will lead you to great things didn't fancy Mata so i guess he becomes a casualty of that.
In the end we get a player that i am absolutely chuffed about signing, but you guys get £37m for a player who Mourinho simply wasn't going to pick anyway.
Personally i think that everyones comes out of this transfer with great credit. Chelsea, Man Utd , Mourinho, Moyes and Mata. Everyone has treated everyone else with great respect and spoken REALLY well in the media. None of the usual back stabbing and one-upmanship. Sometimes a deal just suits everyone and i think this is one of those times.”
Yes, I think that's the important thing to remember. Mourunho had given enough hints that he wasn't keen on Mata, and you had the feeling that nothing was going to change his mind. It was frustrating for the player and the fans, and it wasn't doing the club any good having a player of that quality (and value) sitting out matches.
Personally, I think Jose's judgement will be proved wrong with this one. But at least we've got a fair price and providing we are still getting the right results, I can live with Mata proving his abilities again in a red shirt.
). I wish we could have delayed the deal till the summer. So what if we couldn't recoup as much as £37m in the summer transfer window. Would Mata's value really fall that much? I mean we paid £30m for Willian!! We might have made a profit on Mata's sale but look where we spent the money on: Salah, another attacking midfielder (it's not like we don't have enough of those....Traore, Piazon, Atsu, Moses and Marin all say hi). For all this talk about we got a great fee etc etc.... just look at how much we paid for Salah. We reinvested the profit from Mata's sale to buy another AM when we could have developed one of our youngsters instead. I don't have anything against the player but I feel he's just going to be a squad player for us (would love to be proven wrong though). 
