You don't keep deadwood. It's that simple. Doing that gives the message that players can get away with being inconsistent and shit for most games.
In fairness, he can’t clear out the squad in one summer. Has to pick and choose his battles and look at this over multiple windows. He has 4 shite center backs (rojo, Bailly, Jones, Smalling) and one decent one (Lindelof). He probably has to bring one or two bodies in at the back before he can move them on. I don’t have a problem with Mata as a squad player, on a heavily performance related contract. He’s a consummate professional after all. But I think we’ll all have an aneurism if the likes of Mike, Jones and Juanito are regular starters next season.
Every 2 years De Gea are rumoured to leave Man Utd (LVG's first season, Jose Mourinho's first season and now Ole), so there is nothing to do with Mata and Herrera, just money issue.
And you don't trim down your squad to absolutely feck all just for the sake of doing it either.
If Mata leaves then we'll have
I don't really see what the fuzz and all the moaning is all about. Giving Mata an extension doesn't mean he'll be the one playing, we just keep an experienced player that can play in two different positions, where we make sure we have the number of players we want for next season without having to bring in an extra player. Chong and Gomes are anything but proven, calling them amazing is stretching things just a bit far, but there's no reason we can't give them plenty of chances next season given the amount of matches we'll have to play. Sanchez is bobbins, if he's not gone at the end of the summer it's because we can't get anyone to pay his wages, half the forum wants to boot Martial and Lingard out of the club. Factor in injuries.
I've already explained the reason why.
And I've already explained why as well, different opinions and all of that.
A utility player must be useful. He's not.
Of course he’s useful, he scores goals. There aren’t many players in the squad that actually have a track record of scoring for the club. Looking past Lukuku (difficult due to his circumstance), Martial, Rashford and Pogba - who contributes goals?
He really isn't. He's slow, he's not very effective and he's physically weak
You can shift them all.
Lingard as a starter ? God how low our expectation have fallen in last few years
It's like people avidly paying an active interest in something they are totally indifferent about.
I don't like it either but we won't sort that problem by retaining Mata. It actually makes things worse as money that can be spent on new players would end up being spent on keeping him
What make you think he will be a good squad player next season? His old reputation?
Especially deadwood on 140k a week
Especially when he's at the end of his contract. Ideal time to move him on. Some of our other deadwood, we just won't move as people don't want them/don't want to pay them what we do.
I disagree with Mata. He contributes very little to our play. He scored 3 goals in 22 games. We have James who could probably equal that at least for less than half the salary. Hes 31 so is only going to decline more. Unless its to appease De Gea and get him to sign a new contract, he should be moved on.
3 league goals 2 assists, 1 goal in FA 1 goal in CL. If that’s what you call useful & score goals then that’s what I call crazy. Get rid him & having Gomes & Greenwood over him as squad option won’t hurt if that’s the output we will get from Mata.
People are forced to look for the silver lining. The club has made a habit of awarding under-performers and crocks with new contracts. In a summer where Smalling, Jones and Young are extending, Mata getting extended should not be really shocking.
Don't be kidding me. Martial, Rashford, Pogba, Lukaku, even Lingard, they score more goals than Mata for the past 2 seasons. Mata is the attackers in our team with the less contribution after Sanchez.
You’re far too optimistic there.
He would be getting a bit of a pay rise, but I would imagine the stumbling block is how long a contract he wants. Really it should be a year as any longer than that and we have a rapidly declining player on our hands. Also amount of playing time he will get, he needs to play and just not sure a lot of playing time will benefit the team.
I named all those players bar Lingard in my post. Read it again.
You asked did those names contribute goals, and said Mata is useful and score goals (yeah really that useful, this season Mata scored a goal in every 2-3 months), that's why i correct you those names u mentioned including the poor Lingard scored more goals than Mata.
Its just an example. Cant bring in good players if we dont ship the crap out. Id even tske 3 or 4 signings this year but still ship the crap out and replace them with youth.
