There has been a swarm of rumors in the British and the Italian media that Juan Mata is off to Juventus in January on loan with an option to buy.
The summer signings of Radamel Falcao and Angel di Maria have supposedly pushed the Spaniard down the pecking order at Old Trafford. This will hurt his game-time substantially. With no European football for United this summer, there have been talks of trimming the squad down in order to balance the wage bill at the club.
There have also been talks of continued splurge by Reds in January with club going all out for AS Roma's Kevin Strootman. All these renewed rebuilding could further hurt the Spaniard's prospects at the club.
All these can be just a grapevine for all those headline seekers or ITK's but anything is possible in today's football. As Ed Woodward would put it 'For more watch this space!'