Why Nemanja Matic joining Man Utd is the logical next step in the Jose Mourinho masterplan

As Chelsea’s march to the title became relentless through early 2015, and Jose Mourinho looked like he might reign for a decade at a club to which he once never looked likely to return, he held forth on the decision to re-sign Nemanja Matic the previous year.

Matic had first joined the club aged 21 in 2009 after Mourinho’s first spell and he had left before the return of the club’s most successful manager, but the way in which Mourinho spoke about the Serb that day suggested that he had known about him his whole career. “If I was here, a left footed player, Mourinho said, “1.95 metres [tall]; position: midfield – would never, never, never leave. Never.”

Now Matic – all 1.95 metres of him – is a Mourinho player for the second time in his career, a £40 million signing for Manchester United from Chelsea, where he has steadfastly refused to negotiate a new deal and forced the hand of a club who…

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