Nick Chelsea
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And all the people who have missed the point.............. It's not about the selling of Mata per se, it's about WHO we sell him to.
But you do need the money. It doesn't matter if Roman has virtually unlimited resources, there's FPP checks in place now. If you end up with a loss it will eventually come back to bite you in the ***.
We have to sell to buy its as simple as that. Mata would have played less and less if that's even possible.
I do feel another reason why we suffer is the way we treat young players like kings. The likes of Josh and Chalobah are already making 25k p/w when they first sign a contract. This gives them less incentive to work hard and is probably unhealthy for a guy that age to be having so much money around. Not to mention all the needless hype ... No wonder Josh has regressed so badly. At the rate he is going, he will be very lucky to carve out a career at any EPL club
It's more the fact you haven't actually developed him at all thats hampered him.
It's more the fact you haven't actually developed him at all thats hampered him.
This just isn't true. The only reason we would to sell a player to meet FFP is if we are going a really big (30m+) transfer.
Like I said, I won't judge the window until it's done, but if we've really sold Mata to United so we can buy a squad player + a prospect then that's just bad business.
Which is all down to lack of stability at the top ... Different managers all had different ideas about him. Ancelloti saw him as a deep-lying playmaker whereas AVB saw him as a no.10
Couldn't put it better myself
Why do you buy when all you can do is recall your 100s of players from loan
And all the people who have missed the point.............. It's not about the selling of Mata per se, it's about WHO we sell him to.
The way Mourinho twists words in the press room is amazing ... He actually made me feel happy for a second that Juan was sold
Josh could have played in either role. What he needed was a coherent plan for him and regular time in a similar style. Never got the latter.
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He wanted to stay in England and why be cuntish to a player who has served us well by not letting him do that?
Have to say though, Jose has put on a bit of a masterclass here. If we had even mentioned selling Mata in the summer, people would have been up in arms. If we had said that we were selling him to United...
But, having undermined Mata's positive attributes and overplayed his negative, Jose is now free to pass on a player he never really liked for a sizeable fee. ****, he even managed to freeze him out efficiently enough that the player himself asked for a transfer, allowing Jose to play the "oh, I totally valued him (despite systematically playing him out of position) but he wanted to go, so..." The media and a fair number of the fans will now lap that up and see it is an inevitability. People often try and downplay the impact of mind-games and Jose's ability to get into people's heads, but this was masterfully manipulative.
Circle jerk for Mourinho right after people were slating him for selling Mata to United...
Its beyond hilarious really. The same people who were going berserk on twitter yesterday at Mata's sale are now applauding Jose for selling him. Jose has outdone himself here
Have to say though, Jose has put on a bit of a masterclass here. If we had even mentioned selling Mata in the summer, people would have been up in arms. If we had said that we were selling him to United...
But, having undermined Mata's positive attributes and overplayed his negative, Jose is now free to pass on a player he never really liked for a sizeable fee. ****, he even managed to freeze him out efficiently enough that the player himself asked for a transfer, allowing Jose to play the "oh, I totally valued him (despite systematically playing him out of position) but he wanted to go, so..." The media and a fair number of the fans will now lap that up and see it is an inevitability. People often try and downplay the impact of mind-games and Jose's ability to get into people's heads, but this was masterfully manipulative.