We never actually bid for Mata, you do know that dont you?
Why would he hold out if we didnt seem serious about signing him. If you want a player, you talk to the club and then make an offer - it shows the player the intent and then they might hold out for a deal to be done.
We talked to the club then fucked off and never went back, not really very encouraging is it?
If he wanted to come and we bid enough he would have come.
We didn't and made it obvious we didn't intend to + Wenger's comments about how he wasn't interested in Mata.
You can't pass up a player as good as him at a reasonable price and then claim that a) you'd spend 30-40M on a player if he was good enough b) you're only looking for super quality c) super quality isn't available at decent prices and d) it's hard to find players that would improve our team.
The King Is Back.
Mmhmm, if we don't sign any decent creative players and Mata rips it up, the Internet will explode, and rightly so.
I know we never bid for him or in for him, and i knew we never get him, or never really wanted him. He'd always would have gone somewhere, where his fellow spainsh players are tbh.
My point was if the rumors were true and we did bid for him, but he decide to go to the chavs what could we do. I mean did balague not say no one was buying him for less then £60 million and that was done.
so we knew the deal was dead anyway. seems very strange he went to the chave then.