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This was my reasoning when I mentioned Mata as a potential signing a few weeks ago.
He's a really high-calibre player who'd be a massive statement of intent, but at the same time is entirely attainable.
We can afford wages over £100k, and we'd be able to afford the £25/30mil fee. He's settled in the North West and has a lot of his fellow Spaniards around the area and, as you say, he's a player with a point to prove to try and get himself back in the national side. Every Prem team gets a massive global profile and he'd most likely be the main man for us, where he really would be a spare cog in Mourinho's United side.
It's a no-brainer that we're interested. Whether we'll get him could obviously be a lot different.
All absolutely true - and enhanced by Mourinho not rating him in the slightest. Went from player of the year before Mourinho's second spell to being sold.
Brilliant player when fit and motivated. A new era for El Everton.