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2015-16 Performances


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5.7 Season Average Rating
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As good as he can be when playing like he did at Valencia or at Chelsea, he's one of the big reasons for this shite we have seen. Awful signing. For £37M you expect class more often.
 
You wouldn't pay 250m for the whole squad including subs, youth the lot... what a pile of shite where has the money gone.
 
If he doesn't improve during the second half of the season I'd sell him during the summer. He shows some moments of genuine class but is invisible all too often. Not once has he ever grabbed the game and led us to victory.
 
Is he our worst signing ever? £37m or what was it, he is up there with Carroll when it comes to money wasted on a single player.
 
I'm a fan of Mata's but I'm struggling to see what he brings to the team. The majority of his passes are sideways or backwards. Really poor for someone who can offer a lot more.
 
If he doesn't improve during the second half of the season I'd sell him during the summer. He shows some moments of genuine class but is invisible all too often. Not once has he ever grabbed the game and led us to victory.

He did against liverpool didn't he I swear he smashed them 2 games in a row. But still he doesn't fit us at all and needs to be sold.
 
Is he our worst signing ever? £37m or what was it, he is up there with Carroll when it comes to money wasted on a single player.
For me it's Di Maria. But Mata not far behind. I have been so disappointed about how he's played for us.
 
Just lost any expectations of him ever performing to a high standard again, honestly.
 
He did against liverpool didn't he I swear he smashed them 2 games in a row. But still he doesn't fit us at all and needs to be sold.

I mean in games where the team is struggling and he is able to carry them. If I remember correctly the team generally played well in those games.
 
People were having a go at me for saying he should be sold last week. He has the strength of a schoolgirl and hes just had one good game for us in his two years.
 
What an imposter pretends he's interested when he just constantly hides. Tom Cleverley mark 2 except we paid £37 million for him.
 
Never rated him. Couldn't understand why he was bought for a then-club-record fee when we had Kagawa. Not good enough.
 
I mean in games where the team is struggling and he is able to carry them. If I remember correctly the team generally played well in those games.

In his defence he has pulled us out the shit a couple of times although I can't say he's ever carried us. He has nothing to offer at number 10 and is as bad as being a man down at right wing surely we'd be better of playing anyone that can run in his place.
 
Never rated him. Couldn't understand why he was bought for a then-club-record fee when we had Kagawa. Not good enough.
Moyes had no clue about anything he did when he was our manager. Just a desperate signing really. What did he expect? He played Mata as left midfielder in his(Mata's) second game at United, did he have a plan at all? Moyes ruined 26 years of great work and LvG has followed what Moyes started.
 
I was wrong. It's retarded to single out certain players if an entire team is playing like shit.
 
Same thing we've seen for the last few weeks. The entire team is awful but Mata (rightly) gets more criticism because he's supposed to be one of our best players.

I don't think it's a coincidence that LVG's best period here came when Mata came back into the team looking vital, or that his worst period came while Mata was in abysmal form.

Mata is part of the problem but the fact that we're actually dependent on Mata is a bigger one.

So disappointed with this guy.
 
Where was he until the 47th minute and the ball into Herrera?

Also lol at this guy having a fan club at one time. At least the forum has realised he's a nothing player and we were robbed. Hope we do get Jose then the waste of space will be sold.
 
Few posts on here are a OTT imo. He's a decent player when the team plays well and has the freedom to play, however against stoke on a windy day and needing someone to step up, he's obviously not the player for this type of occasion.

Dissapointed how he's played the last 5-6 matches.
 
Still think it's ridiculous to single Mata out when literally the entire team is performing like utter shite though. I mean he deserves extra criticism because we expect more from him but, beyond that, it's pretty clear that LVG is the fundamental problem. None of them are playing well, it's not just Mata.
 
Still think it's ridiculous to single Mata out when literally the entire team is performing like utter shite though. I mean he deserves extra criticism because we expect more from him but, beyond that, it's pretty clear that LVG is the fundamental problem. That's nobody is playing well, not just Mata.


Don't think he's being singled out, everyone is aware that there are others also playing badly.
 
Don't think he's being singled out, everyone is aware that there are others also playing badly.

Really? This page alone has seen him get called the biggest pussy that has ever played for the club and our worst signing ever. Hardly sharing the blame equally there. :lol:
 
Really? This page alone has seen him get called the biggest pussy that has ever played for the club and our worst signing ever. Hardly sharing the blame equally there. :lol:


This is the Mata thread - look at other player threads for criticism of them.

He probably is the biggest pussy to have played for the club in my time.
 
He was fine under Fergie until he got injured. But I don't want to get involved with that. This is about Mata.
He only got like 14 games or something under Fergie, right? I think you're right though, he was performing well, particularly when we played a diamond system at one point. But the year or so after he was rather crap under Moyes, and Mata is proven as a top Premier League player. I don't think anyone saw it going this way for him.

I think I'd rather we'd have persisted with Kagawa too though, to be honest.
 
I can't believe he is a professional athlete and is as weak as he is, a 12 year old would brush him off the ball.
 
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