Mata pledges future to Valencia

A fee of £18 million would be enough to lure Mata from Valencia with Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool linked with such a move.

“There is a lot of media speculation in Spain regarding my future, but I have decided to remain”, said Mata.

“I want to honour my contract until June 2015 and win trophies with my club.

“We can achieve great things next season because we recently signed players like Diego Alves, Adel Rami and Dani Parejo.”