People are trying too hard to cling to the slim chance that there was any truth in the Mata swap rumour. The fact is that Mata is our best player; no manager, even Mourinho, is going to tear a top player out of a team just like that. There may well be some truth in the idea that Mata is not necessarily a Mourinho player, but even then, as long as a player is effective on the field (which Mata clearly is), no manager would remove him. Rooney is wanted as a striker; a striker that can play football and thus link up with players like Mata, Hazard, De Bruyne etc. and not as a direct number 10 replacement. Mata is integral to Chelsea and will remain so. The only possible change is that he and Oscar will swap positions. I know Mourinho is keen on Mata (as one of our few accomplished left footed players) to be deployed on the right to cut in. That is the one possible change. Apart from that, United can jog on; Mata won't be going. You can have Mikel though.
Ok big man if you can find anywhere that I said any such thing about Rafa I will leave this site and never post here again but if you can't find any such post in the next 48 hours you leave this site and never come back. Do you agree to that big man? Or are you a coward?
The club have come out twice now and said Mata and Luiz will be here next season, if you still don't believe Chelsea me Mourinho you're a ****ing idiot. Anyway, Jovetic AND Negredo signing for City. They're going to be extremely dangerous if Pellegrini can get them going.
Hart Zabaleta Nastasic Kompany Cliche Fernandinho Toure Navas Aguero Silva Jovetic With Lescott, Barry, Nasri, Dzeko, Negredo benched
Pfft... Cech Azpillicueta Ivanovic Luiz Cole Lampard Ramires Hazard Mata Oscar Lukaku With Terry, Cahill, Essien, Van Ginkel, Schurlle, De Bruyne, Torres, Ba benched. Yeeeaaaah ain't got nothing on us. Edit - having written that I realised that I have no idea what our line up will be.
Wait till Jose has us flattening teams for fun again I know, I was confident we'd bid until Jose said we're not bidding for anyone else and then Maicon joined Roma. Has Strootman joined them yet?
sorry first part was you, as below second part about Rafa better than Sir Alex was the Genius District Line who said it in the same thread, so i apologize it was not you but the other genius http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/181448-Manu-fans-and-Rafa
