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Matic at Chelsea has hit a rut, he is guaranteed to make the match day squad and he puts in 5/6 out of 10 performances week in week out, his performances at United will follow a similar pattern. He will most likely have a excellent start to the season and once he has established himself, the performances will drop slightly with the odd outstanding game.

 
Brutos said:
The fan's moaning about selling matic are the same one's who slated him last two seasons and wonder why he wants to leave and go to united to prove a point. LOL Matic will dominate again at united just have this feeling he will rediscover his form under Jose.
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You think Matic wants to og because some fans slated him online? YEah thats not how it Works. Matic was absolute rubbish under Mourinho when he was here last and hasnt "dominated" since that City game. It was his Oscar vs Juve moment and was as good as it gets, the chance of him ever reproducing that are slim to none. Expect more of what we saw this year 

 
Brutos said:
The fan's moaning about selling matic are the same one's who slated him last two seasons and wonder why he wants to leave and go to united to prove a point. LOL Matic will dominate again at united just have this feeling he will rediscover his form under Jose.
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We don't have a problem with Matic being sold. We are complaining because we are selling to a team that is expected to challenge us next season and we are selling another player before adding to the squad. Our squad is threadbare, which is being made worse when 3 of those players are injured / lacking fitness. The season is soon to begin and our squad is nowhere near ready to compete seriously for major titles.

 
^^my thoughts exactly.  Thanks for your services matic and all you did to help us win two titles.  But 40m is too hard to pass up.  Let's hope this means we have another midfielder or two lined up and ready to come in.  

 
Utterly ridiculous. So for a measly £35 million we were perfectly fine to save United from a midfield crises while we are going into the season with two(!) fit midfielders of our own? One of which doesn't work in a midfield two that also happens to be the managers prefered system. Give yourself a pat on the back whoever signed off on this deal, absolutely baffling.

 
Good signing for us , I personally thought we were after someone younger but Matic joins us as a seasoned premier league professional and at the price quoted it's a good deal for both clubs.

 
Scott Harris said:
We don't have a problem with Matic being sold. We are complaining because we are selling to a team that is expected to challenge us next season and we are selling another player before adding to the squad. Our squad is threadbare, which is being made worse when 3 of those players are injured / lacking fitness. The season is soon to begin and our squad is nowhere near ready to compete seriously for major titles.
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The days of Lavish spending are over, we are behind City, United, Barca, Real, Bayern, PSG, All have bigger grounds(PSG not so much) bigger pockets and willing to use it.

Unless the spending and selling affects you directly just enjoy the ride we were in a far worst position just over 20 years ago 

 
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I think its mind blowing that we are 2 weeks away from the beginning of the season and we are weaker. Who knows if Morata is an upgrade on Diego, who knows if Bakayoko is an upgrade on Matic. Is Rudiger an upgrade on an experienced Terry and is Christensen an upgrade on Zouma. We've riskely replaced some of our key players but we've lost all our depth in the process and we have more games to play.

Something must be going on in the background, It feels incredibly hard to believe that we've sold Matic to a rival without having reinforcements lined up.

The only positive out of pre-season I can see is that Michy has found some hunger and he could have a breakout season.

 
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Sheva said:
I think its mind blowing that we are 2 weeks away from the beginning of the season and we are weaker. Who knows if Morata is an upgrade on Diego, who knows if Bakayoko is an upgrade on Matic. Is Rudiger an upgrade on an experienced Terry and is Christensen an upgrade on Zouma. We've riskely replaced some of our key players but we've lost all our depth in the process and we have more games to play.

Something must be going on in the background, It feels incredibly hard to believe that we've sold Matic to a rival without having reinforcements lined up.

The only positive out of pre-season I can see is that Michy has found some hunger and he could have a breakout season.
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Couldn't agree more. The squad is threadbare, surely we have some signings close otherwise the board is truly risking everything including losing Conte. We need something like 5/6 signings (or youth to actually play signicant minutes) before the end of the window just to be adequately stocked ahead of a long and winding campaign. Mindblowing.

 
I have to admit, I'm not very happy with that transfer. I agree that Matic doesn't perform like he did 2 seasons ago, but he still had an important part this season. He won 2 titles in 3 years with us, he offered us a lot of defensive work. Anyways, let's hope we've got a good enough replacement for him.

Thanks for everything Nemanja Matic and good luck in the new club! Good bye!

 
Sheva said:
I think its mind blowing that we are 2 weeks away from the beginning of the season and we are weaker. Who knows if Morata is an upgrade on Diego, who knows if Bakayoko is an upgrade on Matic. Is Rudiger an upgrade on an experienced Terry and is Christensen an upgrade on Zouma. We've riskely replaced some of our key players but we've lost all our depth in the process and we have more games to play.

Something must be going on in the background, It feels incredibly hard to believe that we've sold Matic to a rival without having reinforcements lined up.

The only positive out of pre-season I can see is that Michy has found some hunger and he could have a breakout season.
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Conte is making the squad his.  He's gotten (or getting) rid of all the mourinho players and bringing in players he has clearly asked the board for.  I imagine he has asked for more players and I'm sure the board are trying to get that done for him.  But we are also, at the same time, trying to run like a business and not just buy players with no look toward the future.  That time has passed for Chelsea...our ambitions in the transfer market are in the second tier now.  So this is the frustration...I think Conte is happier with the players he has to suit his starting 11, but he knows there is absolutely no depth so he's asking for more players/upgrades and the board is like, well OK we will try to get them but we will not overpay so prepare for some squad filler type players to come in if we can't get the ones you want.  

It's as if Conte wants to completely overhaul the squad in a matter of one transfer window...that simply cannot happen.  

With regard to Matic and Costa, these two players wanted to leave.  They were never going to play for us so we may as well sell them now and move on without them, rather than keep them in the squad and always wonder and have them lose value.  

 
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TheChelsRVA said:
Conte is making the squad his.  He's gotten (or getting) rid of all the mourinho players and bringing in players he has clearly asked the board for.  I imagine he has asked for more players and I'm sure the board are trying to get that done for him.  But we are also, at the same time, trying to run like a business and not just buy players with no look toward the future.  That time has passed for Chelsea...our ambitions in the transfer market are in the second tier now.  So this is the frustration...I think Conte is happier with the players he has to suit his starting 11, but he knows there is absolutely no depth so he's asking for more players/upgrades and the board is like, well OK we will try to get them but we will not overpay so prepare for some squad filler type players to come in if we can't get the ones you want.  

It's as if Conte wants to completely overhaul the squad in a matter of one transfer window...that simply cannot happen.  

With regard to Matic and Costa, these two players wanted to leave.  They were never going to play for us so we may as well sell them now and move on without them, rather than keep them in the squad and always wonder and have them lose value.  
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This is Conte's second summer with the club. And he didn't get the players he wanted last summer, either. He also managed to win the league in between those summers so he deserves to get the players he wants and full backing from the board/owner.

 
40m for a 29 year old was too good to turn down. If we had the option to sell him to Juve for 30/35m we should have done that IMO. I'm not a fan of selling to rivals, well I don't think Matic is the powerhouse he was, it's still disappointed to give a player to our rivals when they never return the favour.

I wish him all the best as a person, but I hope he has a terrible footballing career while he's at United.

 
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