Jose Mourinho has confirmed that Juan Mata has had his medical at Manchester United done and the move is very close to completion.
“I asked him (Mata), ‘Are you really happy to go?”’, Mourinho said. “He said, ‘Yes, I’m really happy to go.”’
Juan Mata is on the brink of becoming the most expensive player in Manchester United’s history after Chelsea accepted the Spain midfielder’s request to leave Stamford Bridge.
“We hope he does well. We are convinced he is going to do well. If Man United pays their record for a player, it’s because they know exactly what they want from him. And they know exactly what he can give them.
“If he cannot be fully happy here because he is not playing 100 per cent like he was the last two years, if he has a big club that wants him — even if it’s a rival club and in England — the club decided, and I was on the club’s side for this feeling, that you cannot stop people to be happy,” Mourinho said.
United refused to negotiate with Chelsea in the off-season when Mourinho lodged two bids for Wayne Rooney, who was pushing for a transfer after losing his regular place in United’s team. Mourinho said that hadn’t been a factor in dealing with Mata.
“Would Chelsea supporters be happy if we stop a fantastic person, that they all like, from being happy, if we say you only can go to Russia, China, to France or to Portugal, not England?” Mourinho asked.
“To say now, ‘You cannot go, Juan, to United because United refused in the summer to sell us Wayne Rooney,’ I don’t think it’s fair to Juan. So if they decide not to sell (Rooney, it’s) their decision.”
While United were quiet on Friday on Mata’s likely transfer, Mourinho said: “Things are going in a good direction. Sooner rather than later, things will be finalized.”
The deal would eclipse the £30.1m that United paid to sign striker Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham in 2008.
Stupid Mourinho you’ve led to matas exit after u continuously benched him for your selfishness..how dare u let mata exit stamford bridge for old trafford you are just stupid u first let go of a very young talented Kelvin De bruyne now u are letting go of a two time chelsea player of the year in his third year
Go and become a red devil, since you seem to be a Mata FC supporter. Juan prefered to fight for the WC than to stay and fight for his place in CFC team, let’s see if Del Bosque will play him regularly (or you’ll call Vicent stupid and selfish?). I respect Mata, as a loyal servent of Chelsea, but this year he didn’t show the WILL to fight for his place, and you can’t deny that when he was called he didn’t showed his level ON THE PITCH (or it was Jose’s fault that?). He wants to leave, fine, hope he has success always except when it crashes with CFC objectives. But if you’re a Chelsea supporter, remember that you are calling “stupid” and “selfish” to one of our legends, one of the best managers in CFC history, so he also deserves respect. But if you’re a Juan Mata FC or a de Bruyne FC supporter, I’m happy that you’ll become a red devil. Sincerely, with all this noise around Juan, you’re doing more harm than good, to the team and also to Juan himself. I’m even happy for him to leave, to see if all this nonsense stops. I’ve never heard that Sir Alex destroyed Tevez, Anderson or Nani’s career, that Guardiola destroyed Villa’s career, or that Del Bosque destroyed Mata’s career (since the spanish coach almost never plays him on national side). All of them can have their options, and are respected for that. Jose always have a multitude of “great managers” telling him what he must or must not to… it’s a pitty they don’t get a team to coach themselves and show all that football knowledge. KTBFFH!!!
That’s my opinion and its subject to no controversy
Maritimo don’t waste your time with this idiot who is insulting Mou like he owns Chelsea. My question is why Man U? Why Mata? I’m waiting for his first interview. If he says something bad against Mou or Chelsea…damn I will be done with the lad
My dear am agree wit u….he is very stupid!
i guess there should be a way to punish some ingrate and nonentity fans. pls you and augustine should be banned on this page and tracked down ur network from connecting. how on earth will you be so rude by calling someone stupid as if juan mata is the only player in cfc who has obeyed the coach.
Do you call stupid to Vicente del Bosque, for playing Pedro Rodriguez instead of Mata, being Juan a more techically gifted player? Or maybe, both Vicente and Jose have a valid point by making those options, and are judged by the results they get making those decisions. Are Vicente and Jose both stupid? Or just Jose?
I recognise that Mata deserves respect for his contribution to the team, I will always support him since he don’t play against Chelsea, but Jose also deserves respect as a Chelsea Legend. Calling “stupid” to someone that won us our first league in 50 years and built the grounds of a great Chelsea team for years, it’s not being a great supporter. You can prefer another type of football, disagree with some decision making, but you can’t insult a legend… whether his name is Dider, Juan or Jose!
Chelsea mgt is being stupid to sell this guy to Man united.Why not Barca,athletico,PSG or even bayern?.Why Man Utd??.There is something not right about this deal.it just came out of the blues and all of a sudden it went too fast and everyone is cool with it.Are we on koolaid??
Did you even listen to mourinho. United were the only team that put a bid in and mata wanted to go to united. Mourinho is a great man he has said time and time again that if a player wants to leave he isnt gonna be a dick and force him to stay. Mata was very happy to leave. Mou didnt want him to leave but he had to do what was best for the player
HE IS THE MANAGER AND KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON THAT IS ALL
ok so Jose officially landed, lied to us and said he loves mata and wants him to stay blah blah tswi tswi, and we wanted to cop his dream, we really did, but the chickens have come home to roost and mata has decided to not be the next kaka and leave while he still has time to recover. how do i feel about his departure? surprisingly not as sad as i thought i would be, my love for mata and football trumps my hatred for united, the only cushion is that our talent pool i.e. piazon, thorgan and izzy will be given a chance next season but i’m worried because all 3 are ball players unlike the thugs jose clearly loves, changing our team again from silky technicians to brute thuggish athletes, he has violated our transfer policy over the past couple of years and the club has let him, i think they should have only given jose complete control of signings after 3years because what if he leaves as his history says he will and he has sold the type of players that can play the type of ball the club has always wanted?…..#josebrokemyheart
Are you really a good football follower? are you really a CFc fan? I doubt. Mata is so good that he is the only shining light in a team that is 15 points behind the champion in the 2 years in won The Chelsea player of the year. Just becos we build the team around his creative skills not minding his defensive frailties. Jose is here to correct the anomaly and any player that is not willing to change his way of playing to suit the system would be allow to leave
CFc is better without Mata as shown by our league position compare to the last two years.
I didn’t want to be as harsh, but you have a valid point. But some seem to prefer Mata shining and CFC being at 15 points of the 1st… as I call them, Mata FC supporters.
Nevermind that we finished 15 points behind, look at the chances he has created for our strikers el nino et al, truth is mata is a class act, we let him go because jose can’t get the best out of him. Do you think Pep or klopp would’ve sold him? My worry is not only mata but the other players who play similar (whose game is not based on athleticism) what will happen to them? Do we sell them?
Do you think Eden or Oscar’s game is “based on athleticism”? If he’s so good, so why Pep didn’t buy him for Bayern, or Klopp to Borussia, or Carlo to Real Madrid? Why he’s rarely at the first eleven on the spanish team? And if our forwards got so many chances, how we could stay at 15 points from the leader (and I don’t want to blame Juan for that, but I blame the team OFFENSIVE and DEFENSIVE organization)? Jose likes a certain profile of player, but not “thugs”, as I read somewhere – or you call Deco, Sneijder, Super Frankie, Essien or Ozil “thugs”? Don’t get me wrong, I will evaluate the manager’s job at the end of the season, and If they stay 15 points behind, I’ll be the first harsh critic. But to do that, you must leave the team work… And as you mention Pep, remember that when he got to Barcelona, he sold Ronaldinho and Deco, the “spinal cord” of a losing team. He “killed” their careers too?
Dear JUAN MATA, thanks for two beautiful years. Little magician ! I will never forget those sweet mermories.
Right from your first goal against
norwich city, for mazacar … your corner kick for drogba equaliser and ivanovic winner against benfica on our road to UCL and EUROPA, …
¤ There is only one juan mata ¤
Chelsea blue army, onwards and upwards >>>^^^ KTBFFH
As much as i love Mata, i still belief in d kingdom jose will build!
hey man ur right on point ktbffh!!!!
Azpilicueta fought for his spot
Mikel fought for his spot
Willian fought for his spot
Torres fought for his spot
My question to Juan is,why didn’t he fight?
Too many comments saying “fuck chelsea” “fuck mourinho”
All i can say is go support Man United then, we support the team and manager not just MATA. Yes we are sad a class player is leaving but we can just wish him the best, and you criticise Mourinho?
The man who Chelsea first league after 50+ years, who made Chelsea a top team and Stamford Bridge a place where opponents are fearfull of the Blues?!
All I knw is dat, he shudnt hurt us whenever he plays against us.
This place is going to be hell for a while, the plastic fans/Mata FC that don’t know anything about football just blame Mourinho because they don’t know anything. There’s a whole technical staff and club executives who sanctioned this deal, for the well being of the club. All Mata FC fans can either shut the hell up, or go support Man United instead. Yes, we’re losing him. Yes, we’re making a good profit off of him. Yes, he refused to train harder and fight for his spot. Yes, we have many other players who will train ever harder now to fight for a spot.
Everyone at the club has to pitch in and help, because no one person not named Roman is bigger than Chelsea. The players have to do their part, the coaches have to do their part, the club directors have to their part, everyone from the kit man to the security to the gardeners to the chefs, have to do their parts. What Mata has shown by saying he was happy to go to United when the offer came in is that he is not willing to do his part. That’s not the kind of person we need to have at the club to help us progress forward and win trophies.
This is Chelsea Football Club, not Juan Mata Football Club or Manchester United Football Club. All these plastic fans can do us real fans a favor and go bandwagon over to Man United, Plenty of Man United forums to go to, so if you’re that much more passionate about Mata than Chelsea, then leave us the hell alone and go jump over to those forums.
The lng awaited clear out is finaly here and al we can do is argue, wel am glad al ur arguements wnt change a thing, WATCH OUT FOR CHELSEA TEAM.
I supports mourinho in his transfer dealin of mata to united..buh wat i cant undastand is him,mourinho sayin mata was benched bcos of his defensive frailties.lets rememba..ozil was nt benched bcos of his defensive frailties..datz my observation..i fink am entitled to freedom of speech
You are talking unnecessary history here now. Mata was a player of last 2 yrs bila bila is not guarante to start but current performance. He was given a lot chance to show his talent but he couldn’t. What I saw this season every talent in team performe match better than Mata. Even bench was not deserved to him comparing other talents not got bench role. Jose, fantastic coach, has identified why Cfc finished 15 points behind leader starts taking action and we hv to support that. As a fan I wann to see a better blue from past yrs. Poor performing players hv to go as far as the coach and Club believe. We wann a better Blue and believe in Jose for that. Talking history about Torres’s performance at Liverpool and Mata’s last in Cfc is not guarante to start but current performance. Mata’s fans hv to accept like Cfc fans Z true that Jose is absolutely right.
tell’em bro it’s all about CHELSEA and mata or united or any other club. tell them and let them know. God bless chelsea for life.
IT IS ODD TO WITNESS MATA PUT ON UNITED BUT I THINK THE HARM IS ALREADY DONE SO AS FANS ALL WE NEED TO DO IS RALLY SOLIDLY BEHIND THE TEAM DESPITE THIS OUT OF BLUE DECISION. WE CAN’T TURN THE HAND OF TIME. FROM ALL INDICATIONS MATA WANTED TO JOINED UNITED DUE TO LACK OF PLAY TIME AT CFC AND I RESPECT HIS DECISION AT THE END OF THE DAY. OBVIOUSLY HE WILL ALWAYS BE COMMEMORATED AS ONE OF THE GREAT PLAYERS FOR CFC. IN AS MUCH AS WE ADORE AND LIKE HIM, WE HAVE TO BE REALISTIC BECAUSE THIS DEAL IS GOOD FOR BOTH PARTIES INVOLVED. IDEALLY IT HURTS TO SEE MATA ON THE BENCH WHILE HE COULD BE USEFUL IN ANOTHER TEAM SO WE NEED TO LEARN TO ACCEPT SITUATIONS LIKE THIS AND MOVE ON. AFTER ALL CHELSEA IS BIGGER THAN ANY PLAYER AND ALL THE PLAYERS AT WE HAVE TODAY WOULD WANT TO MOVE ON ONE DAY . KEEP THE BLUE FLAG FLYING!
Lolz …someone said “harm is done” and I’m wondering ….what about the harm inverse on MCU fans? if it were Wayne Rooney stepping into Mata’s shoes ( leaving United for you to be happy @ Chelsea ). For those who are too emotional about this transfer, pls pull yourselves together …players will come and go clubs will remain. its not new it’s the modus operandi. Adeu Mata.
Now, back to the basics; the lad in question is playing below par and not too certain his potency in going straight into MCU squad…at least with the current form of players like some who’ve been abandoned like Kagawa… that’s not the point, what’s important is that Juan has played a part in Jose’s script to bring the better N0.10 ( Wayne Rooney) in come next summer. Manchester United did same about 2006 with S. Veron and saw nothing wrong in selling to a back to back champion rival.
It adds to nothing keeping and unused player in a squad of competitive players who are also highly talented with a spill over of some on loan who aren’t less. Mata has to part company at the right moment before it dawns on his career. CFC 4 life!
selling mata is not a problem for us…he’s not playing regularly for us…so for his well being we blues want him to see him somewhere else where he can shine and become legend…the only problem here is selling him to man fucking united…why not sell him to PSG when they placed a bid of 35 mill. pound in the summer or wait till the end of the season? mr.mou is a liar…he said that we chelsea will be dormant during this transfer window!!!but see what is happening now…1st we sold KdB…it’s k….we bought Matic…Wise…but selling mata?hmmm k acceptable…but to man fucking united? fuck you mourinho….atleast wait till summer and shift him abroad…but not to the club we hate…you see the short term goal of winning the league and while for utd they are looking at the long term legecy…u r the ly manager who hates mata!!! one magic at this time…please PSG or RM or any oil daddy club…pl come and snatch mata from man fucking united
its so funny that we all are looking at this issue from one perspective.no one is looking at it from the financial angle,with ffp looming large over clubs in europe,this places us in a better position to be able to comply with d rules.to those saying why man utd,simple,they were d only club that came calling.to those saying why not wait till summer,i say why keep a disgrunted player n risk destroying d team spirit. Mata is a great player,an asset to any team.
I wish mata personal succes.mata wil be man.united best player 4 the next 2 season as man.united also finish 20points or more behind chelsea.up cfc.keep faith with salah cos hes got everytin mata got plus speed & work rate.
Good bye JUAN MATA and thank you very much for your brilliant performance for the past 2 and half seasons, i can never forget your goals like your free kick against Manu last season at the bridge, and winning goal at 88th min against Manu back at old trafford, your corner kick in UCL which was converted to goal by the great LEGEND DROGBA and corner kick in europa league final scored well by iva, right from your first goal in debut match to every moment you played by wearing chelsea Jersey you have always given 100 percent.All the best for you in future. But LOSE or WIN players come and go managers come and go and even ownership may be changed but…….FANS are always there……to CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB .Chelsea 4life!
Let go of all dis mata issue will yu? I tired. Already. The guy is good, we all know that. Look on the bright side. Everyone knows mata likes england. So those of yu saying y not PSG,the ansa is clear. He personally wanted manchester United. He wld jus be anoda star in psg but if He goes to Manchester he wld be the star player and they wld build their team around him. Wish him all the best sincerely. This might give a chance to Piazon. Piazon and chalobah are the 2 ppl. I so much want to have a chelsea future. Those boys are class. Also, mata departure wld give space for schurrle to start more games. Since his arrival, Schurrle has done everything right but not been a regular sometimes not on the bench cos mata had o be on the bench even tho he was playing crap. Schurrle is a gem. To have as many caps as he does for germany @ dat tender age is magnificent considering hw competitive germany attack is. But he has never complained about making world cup squad even though his place is under threat with the likes of draxler and gnabry. CFC fans, if yu want to talk unfair, look at schurrle
I am highly disappoint some fans stupid comment. Blaming and insulting a coach based on our stupid vison of football is completely a mistake. It is a crime. It is worse to Jose, a man hving a winning DNA. He is more than many legends so far we called. We have to respect him even he does mistake more than our little legends. Many become Blue fan b/c of Jose and now start insuling him.