FINEST JOURNALISM Jose Mourinho would rather take a 12-month vow of silence than sell a match-winning midfielder to a title race rival. Chelsea’s step up to the bargaining plate came after Mourinho had extinguished United’s title defence with a 3-1 victory last Sunday. From that moment on he could pat Moyes’s team on the head and wish them well in the scramble for fourth. To a nurse or teacher, the idea that salvation can be found by breaking the club’s transfer record and splashing £37million on a player who is surplus to requirements at Chelsea would seem a grotesque affirmation of football’s one-track mind. In the economics of modern football, though, the Mata move makes sense – especially now – even if it comes without tactical forethought. Moyes thought there was enough midfield creativity at his disposal. Results said he was wrong. So Mata has become United’s Ozil: an expensive, safe buy in times of need. The anomaly of Dimitar Berbatov being United’s record signing at £30.7million is about to be wiped from history ~Telegraphs Paul Hayward
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:11:38 +0000
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