MANCHESTER: Manchester United manager David Moyes said on Friday that he is happy that Juan Mata will be the only new player that the Premier League champions sign in January.
Moyes secured the club-record signing of Mata from Chelsea for £37.1 million ($61.2 million, 44.8 million euros) last week, describing the Spaniard’s arrival as the start of his rebuilding process at Old Trafford.
United were linked with a move for Bayern Munich’s Toni Kroos after Moyes watched the Germany international midfielder, 24, last week.
But 12 hours before the January transfer deadline was due to fall, Moyes declared United’s business finished and said that he would wait until the end of the season before adding any more players.
“You can stand the cameras (at the gates of the training ground) down; they won’t be required. We’ve done our business and we’ll get on with it,” he said.
“There’s no disappointment because I said at the start of the window that we probably wouldn’t do much business in January. That’s for lots of different reasons, not any one thing.”
Moyes saw strikers Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney both return from injury in Tuesday’s 2-0 win over Cardiff City.
Van Persie, who played for an hour, had been out since December 10 with a thigh injury and Rooney had been absent since January 1.
Moyes, who revealed that midfielder Marouane Fellaini is also close to a return from his wrist injury, said that he will continue to ease Rooney and Van Persie back into action gently.
“We’ve got to be careful with them both because they’re both returning,” he said. “Wayne only had 30 minutes and Robin had about 60 minutes, so we’re mindful of that and we’ll make sure they’re ready.
United have allowed Wilfried Zaha to join Cardiff on loan for the rest of season and Moyes is looking forward to seeing how the winger gets on in the Premier League. Zaha, 21, has made just two substitute appearances since joining United from Crystal Palace last year. (Agencies)
Some of the signings in December/January
Manchester United Juan Mata (Chelsea, £37.1m)
Chelsea Bertrand Traore (Association Jeunes Espoirs De Bobo-Dioulasso, undisclosed), Nemanja Matic (Benfica, £21m), Mohamed Salah (Basel £11m), Kurt Zouma (Saint Etienne, £12.5m)
Aston Villa Grant Holt (Wigan, loan), Ryan Bertrand (Chelsea, loan)
Crystal Palace Jason Puncheon (Southampton, undisclosed)
Everton Aiden McGeady (Spartak Moscow, undisclosed), Lacina Traore (Monaco, loan), Jindrich Stanek (Sparta Prague, undisclosed)
Fulham Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders, loan), William Kvist (loan, Stuttgart), Lewis Holtby (Tottenham, loan)
Newcastle Luuk de Jong (Borussia Monchengladbach, loan)
Norwich Jonas Gutierrez (Newcastle, loan)
Stoke John Guidetti (Man City, loan), Stephen Ireland (Aston Villa, free transfer), Juan Agudelo (New England Revolution, free)
Sunderland Marcos Alonso (Fiorentina, loan), Santiago Vergini (Estudiantes, loan), Oscar Ustari (Almeria, free), Ignacio Scocco (Internacional, £3m), Liam Bridcutt (Brighton, £2.5m)
Swansea David Ngog (Bolton, undisclosed), Raheem Hanley (Blackburn, free transfer)
West Ham Roger Johnson (Wolves, loan), Antonio Nocerino (Milan, loan), Marco Borrielo (Roma, loan) Abdul Razak (Anzhi Makhachkala, undisclosed). (Agencies)