He was a great handy player for Chelsea & wasn't doing much wrong.Then,why did we end up selling him!He could still do a job for us at present despite him not being as sharp as he was for us in the past.Also,will he be fit to play against us today for Fulham.I don't even mind him even scoring against us and having a good game as we should still be beating Fulham who are at a low after sacking Ranieri.Views?Fellow Chelsea fans?
posted on 3/3/19
Not that bad as we signed dross like Drinkwater and Bakayako but sold him.Mata at present would do a great job for Chelsea in a playmaker role.
posted on 3/3/19
As great as Mata is, shadow of the player we had but still pretty damn good, I think hindsight has proven us right to sell (just maybe a little prematurely).
You look at both Conte & Sarri's tactical frameworks and there's no natural position for Mata to slot into. None of Conte's favored formations for us or elsewhere require a pure no.10, and Sarri's playmakers always play deeper in the field. Seems selling him would always have been an inevitability.
posted on 3/3/19
To hell with Sarri,Mata is still useful if played as a playmaker or at times on the wing.His crossing ability and free kick goals are still better than those present at Chelsea excluding Hazard,Azpilicueta and Pedro.
posted on 3/3/19
Sarri's teams are about interchanging of movement in the opponents half from the five players ahead of the DLP/Regista. If Mata played in the no.8 role he'd be too similar to Kovacic offensively while not offering anything defensively, and in the RW slot he'd slow everything down the same way Willian does.
He's a proper 4231 playmaker. He needs that double pivot to protect him defensively, like Ozil.
posted on 3/3/19
Devil D.A if Sarri were not there and Aid and or Allegri were Chelsea manager,would Mata & Schurrle have a rile to play for Chelsea in its current squad or not.Answer in affirmative or negating reply.
posted on 3/3/19
Who's Aid?
Yes, Allegri would use Mata well
posted on 3/3/19
comment by ZahraIhsanphile (U20361)
posted 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
Not that bad as we signed dross like Drinkwater and Bakayako but sold him.Mata at present would do a great job for Chelsea in a playmaker role.
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Prime Mata or the present day version?
posted on 3/3/19
*Zidane or Allegri were Chelsea manager!
posted on 4/3/19
I was at his last game and he was all over the place and Jose subbed him off at half time.
Not sure what happened but maybe it was homesick? Didn't enjoy it under Jose? Doesn't make Jose a bad person and I don't think they fell out and I think quite the opposite, Jose seemed to rate him. I personally think he was homesick as he went back to Germany for a while
posted on 4/3/19
He said recently in his last 6 months e had a dodgy meal when we were on a European away day that kept him out for a few weeks