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Cosimo · 23 Jan 2014 at 12:19

Got to love the new rumours of a Bayern bid for Mata.

Robbo · 23 Jan 2014 at 12:20

Cosimo said:
Got to love the new rumours of a Bayern bid for Mata.

Seems to be made up on Twitter.

Cosimo · 23 Jan 2014 at 12:26

Robbo said:
Seems to be made up on Twitter.

But you're keeping your fingers crossed.

Robbo · 23 Jan 2014 at 12:30

Cosimo said:
But you're keeping your fingers crossed.

Well, it was posted by one of those "trusted sources ITK" accounts and quoted BILD as the source, and BILD have said it's rubbish. But yes.

Ben Smith BBC Sport
Mata to Man Utd
"Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata is set to arrive at Manchester United's Carrington training ground by helicopter later. He will be met by United boss David Moyes before having a medical."

G|mp · 23 Jan 2014 at 12:53

Cosimo said:
But you're keeping your fingers crossed.

Like Chelsea fans have everything crossed that we find a boil on his arse that means he can't play

Robbo · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:07

Daily Mail: The helicopter bringing Juan Mata to Manchester United's training ground has arrived. :cool:

Need pictures!

G|mp · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:08

Juan o'clock he arrived.

Gooner Leroy · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:09

G|mp said:
Juan o'clock he arrived.

ban

Wayn0r · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:09

G|mp said:
Juan o'clock he arrived.

Haha, yes!

G|mp · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:10

G|mp · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:10

We should have got Tottenham to pay for the flight.

dannyjo22 · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:24

Robbo said:
He's only 25 as well, same age as Ozil...!

Even if Moyes can't turn it around (I hope he can), he'll barely be reaching his prime when we get another manager in.

Will he even be 26?

G|mp · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:26

Moses said:
Yes, because that's a totally fair comeback/reinforces his point . It's pretty simple to understand, unless you're a SEN kid :-\.

You do love picking on Frank don't you Moses.

It's not simple to understand, it's Wenger being a whiny **** again, I don't remembering him coming out with this kind of thing when he strengthened United and City over the last few seasons.

RvP, Nasri and Clichy all say hi!

Robbo · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:27

Moses said:
Yes, because that's a totally fair comeback/reinforces his point . It's pretty simple to understand, unless you're a SEN kid :-\.

Did Frank run off with your Mrs or something Moses?

dannyjo22 said:
Will he even be 26?

That's the question isn't it.

Bucket · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:30

Is it me or is Cosimo pretty much trying to say anything to convince himself this isn't happening? The whole time it's been amusing the amount of deflection to try and laugh it off as speculation.

Just as many people said in the summer when there were links, it was obvious that Mata wasn't going to feature and Jose didn't fancy him as a player, but oh no, everyone was mental, Juan was the man.

Now he's off as predicted and is just a Jose reject, apparently. Apart from being POTY twice in a row and racking up what, 20 goals 30+ assists in all competitions?

There's no other player I would have rather we got than Mata from the league, the sexy *******.

G|mp · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:33

Yeah I think this is hitting the Cosibot quite hard.

Robbo · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:34

Bucket said:
Is it me or is Cosimo pretty much trying to say anything to convince himself this isn't happening? The whole time it's been amusing the amount of deflection to try and laugh it off as speculation.

Just as many people said in the summer when there were links, it was obvious that Mata wasn't going to feature and Jose didn't fancy him as a player, but oh no, everyone was mental, Juan was the man.

Now he's off as predicted and is just a Jose reject, apparently. Apart from being POTY twice in a row and racking up what, 20 goals 30+ assists in all competitions?

There's no other player I would have rather we got than Mata from the league, the sexy *******.

You can't blame the Chelsea fans, I'd be gutted too.

I've watched pretty much every goal and assist video about Mata on Youtube and I can remember the vast majority of them because they're of such high quality (and frequent, too). He's disgustingly good.

Purdy · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:40

Bucket said:
Is it me or is Cosimo pretty much trying to say anything to convince himself this isn't happening? The whole time it's been amusing the amount of deflection to try and laugh it off as speculation.

Just as many people said in the summer when there were links, it was obvious that Mata wasn't going to feature and Jose didn't fancy him as a player, but oh no, everyone was mental, Juan was the man.

Now he's off as predicted and is just a Jose reject, apparently. Apart from being POTY twice in a row and racking up what, 20 goals 30+ assists in all competitions?

There's no other player I would have rather we got than Mata from the league, the sexy *******.

G|mp · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:42

Moses said:
No, it's not about merely strengthening a team, it's about the timing of it and protecting sporting integrity. Given Chelsea don't have to play Manyoo again, but their rivals do, strengthening them at this point in a season is unfair in Wenger's eyes. He has similar, albeit different, concerns when it comes to loaning out players in the Premier League now that loanees cannot play against their own clubs - so Chelsea have used the loan system to their advantage by loaning out Lukaku, for example.

So, selling Mata now is fundamentally (and clearly!) different to selling RVP, or whoever else, in a summer window.

The timing has little to do with it, if anything selling in the summer is more of a risk to Arsene as they then have time to settle with their new team.

He's just moaning because that's what he does, it has **** all to do with integrity as he is making out.

When has Wenger ever had an ounce of sporting integrity?

He's making a tit of himself again.

Newbie007 · 23 Jan 2014 at 13:42

The whole workrate thing is horse **** too, no other chelsea player won the ball in the final 3rd as much as Mata in the past 2 years.