Man Utd 'didn't address' Chelsea during move bargain because of Wayne Rooney conflict
Manchester United took drastic actions to keep Wayne Rooney out of the grip of Chelsea back when they were working out an arrangement to prise Juan Mata away from the Blues
It's been uncovered that Manchester United took drastic actions to keep Wayne Rooney out of the grip of Chelsea back in 2014 - and they even figured out how to wrap up an arrangement for Juan Mata without addressing their Premier League rivals simultaneously.
Joined dished out around £37.1million to carry Mata to Old Trafford after the Spanish maestro had become undesirable with then-Blues manager Jose Mourinho. Nonetheless, an arrangement to sign the playmaker was everything except direct given Chelsea's advantage in making an agreement for Rooney.
Another report from The Athletic has revealed some insight into how United figured out how to pull it off. The club were careful about the Blues interest in Rooney and, thusly, previous CEO Ed Woodward was hesitant to accept any calls or lounge around the arranging table with the Chelsea progressive system.
It's been uncovered that Manchester United took drastic actions to keep Wayne Rooney out of the grip of Chelsea back in 2014 - and they even figured out how to wrap up an arrangement for Juan Mata without addressing their Premier League rivals simultaneously.
Joined laid out around £37.1million to carry Mata to Old Trafford after the Spanish maestro had become undesirable with then-Blues supervisor Jose Mourinho. Nonetheless, an arrangement to sign the playmaker was everything except direct given Chelsea's advantage in figuring out an agreement for Rooney.
Another report from The Athletic has revealed some insight into how United figured out how to pull it off. The club were careful about the Blues interest in Rooney and, thusly, previous CEO Ed Woodward was hesitant to accept any calls or lounge around the arranging table with the Chelsea progressive system.
Joined needed to get imaginative to land their man and figured out how to use Mata's dad, Juan Sr and Colin Pomford, a Madrid-based specialist, to work out an arrangement throughout the span of 'a while'. The arrangement is viewed as one of a handful of the triumphs that Woodward figured out how to direct during his tempestuous residency at the club.
Joined may have figured out how to cling to Rooney at that point, yet the club's unsurpassed record goalscorer opened up on that past interest back in 2020 - despite the fact that he guaranteed he was more like a transition to Barcelona as opposed to Chelsea.
Addressing The Utd Podcast, Rooney said: "I think it was legitimate that Chelsea and Mourinho needed to sign me. There was Real Madrid, Barcelona and the Man City thing continues to manifest, however there was never the choice for me to go there.
Despite the fact that there were tales on that also, however the other three, truly, were more practical choices. In my mind, at that point, in that two-day time span, I was all set and play in Spain.
In a perfect world, I would have jumped at the chance to have gone to Barcelona, yet being Real Madrid than Barcelona was looking more probable. Chelsea were generally there also."
Following eight years of administration at Old Trafford, Mata pulled the drape down on his United profession before this year when he uncovered he would leave the club toward the finish of his ongoing agreement this late spring.
Since showing up from Chelsea, Mata proceeded to show up for Manchester United, netting 51 objectives in all contests. The Sun guaranteed recently that the 34-year-old had been offered an enormous £8.5m-a-year arrangement to finish paperwork for Saudi Arabian monsters Al-Hilal, while any semblance of Real Sociedad, Sevilla and Real Betis are excited about bringing Mata - who made his name with Valencia - back to La Liga.
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