I'm not sure where everyone is getting their information from. Everyone's an expert on what's happening with Di Maria despite there being no news from any reliable source from what I've seen, other than Van Gaal saying "it's a process", which is his new catchphrase answer for every single question he's asked, about anything.
If he does go it'll just go to show how dumb our transfer strategy was last year, despite everyone creaming themselves over it. Most of our signings had nothing to do with anything other than Woodward thinking he was cheating at Championship Manager. It was a waste of a year and we've spent most of this summer signing or trying to sign players we needed a year ago...although at least that's what we're actually doing this time around, and actually made a noticable effort to tie things up as much as possible in time for pre-season.
Also, I'm fine with him staying, but I can't say I'd exactly be devastated to lose him either. He has bags of talent but he makes Nani look consistent and intelligent. No way he's someone you can rely on to build a team around. One week he'll be winning the game on his own, the next he's catching the ball to take a throw in when it hasn't gone off the pitch, or clawing referees in the back, or repeatedly attempting to cross the ball into the box, from the centre of the pitch. We have far too many stupid players already to accomodate this level of idiocy. He is definitely not a £65m player. He was routinely outperformed by Ashley Young.
