He was wrestling against Wigan Warriors rugby players, while being out injured for basically a year. The video of him, Onana and Maguire is on Youtube.
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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
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- Goals
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- Assists
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- Yellow cards
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Antony was useless but at least was able bodied. Injuries not Mount's fault obviously, but he was never needed, wanted, given the once revered number 7, weak, average football player that should never have been signed.
Antony has at least gone on loan. Mount is going nowhere, but hopefully we see him thrown out the door this summer. Rubbish signing
What’s the inference here?
That he is not being professional, which probably explains why he is always injured. The most injured player in the squad, should not be doing ambassadorial duties that include anything physical such as wrestling against strong rugby players. He should be being careful and looking after his injured body.
Should try cash in in summer. I think we could draw an offer of 20-25m if hes prepared to lower his wages
Was this not an event arranged by the club?
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Status: Out
Type of injury: Unspecified
Possible return date: Unknown
Mount was again absent against Leicester City in the FA Cup due to the problem which forced him off the field against Manchester City in the Manchester derby in December, and the Englishman is still not close to making his return.
That's weird, no? Usually there will be some basic information on an injury e.g; ankle, hamstring etc.
What is actually wrong with him?
He could still go and let the other players participate in the physical parts, he didn't have to do that.
I would say you would need a lot more information before deciding he’s done anything unprofessional, and deciding that he has, without knowing all of the details, seems like getting annoyed for the sake of it.
Fact is that Mount is a player of tremendous quality that should be a focal point of our attack. He has every quality needed to be an Amorim darling. He treats the ball with care, has a great work rate, is deceptively quick and has great acceleration, and playing as the left 10, will be cutting in on his right foot. But, he is always injured. And when injuries are so recurrent, you can't build any consistency as a player or a team. I would contend that Mount has until the end of the season to prove himself valuable to the cause. He needs to come back from injury and stay fit for the rest of the season. He not only has to do that but he has to come back and put in consistent performances centered around being a consummate team player. He has the experience and quality to be a leader on the pitch to a group of young players, that could be vitally important. He also has the quality on and off the ball, as well as through dead balls, to make a real difference to outcomes.
If he cannot do that, and maybe even if he can (because his value would be higher) we should be looking to move him on in the summer. This is not because I doubt his quality but I do doubt his ability to stay fit and be a reliable part of the team. There is nothing more I would like than to see a fully fit, Chelsea level Mount. That would be huge for our team right now. But wishing it won't make it come true. And whichever way you look at it, if his injuries force us to only be able to use him intermittently, then he has to be relegated to 4th or 5th choice in whatever position you assign him to. At 250k a week, or more, it is simply untenable to pay any player that to be so low down the selection order. It's a misuse of scarce resources. We'd be better off selling him and investing in another proven talent (Cunha) or making significant cost savings by replacing him with a young, developing player with high potential (Dibbling).
If he cannot do that, and maybe even if he can (because his value would be higher) we should be looking to move him on in the summer. This is not because I doubt his quality but I do doubt his ability to stay fit and be a reliable part of the team. There is nothing more I would like than to see a fully fit, Chelsea level Mount. That would be huge for our team right now. But wishing it won't make it come true. And whichever way you look at it, if his injuries force us to only be able to use him intermittently, then he has to be relegated to 4th or 5th choice in whatever position you assign him to. At 250k a week, or more, it is simply untenable to pay any player that to be so low down the selection order. It's a misuse of scarce resources. We'd be better off selling him and investing in another proven talent (Cunha) or making significant cost savings by replacing him with a young, developing player with high potential (Dibbling).
It's so frustrating to support United. The list of players-gone-badly-wrong is not short and then we come to Mason Mount, a quality footballer at Chelsea but who was known at the time to have fitness problems and was going into the last year of his contract and yet we spent 60m plus 300k/week (per The Telegraph) and yet he has barely touched the ball for us.
This season is shot anyway, except for our two cup runs, and I see no point in even thinking about bringing back for the run in even if he's somehow declared fit. If we're somehow in a SF of either cup we must by then be doing something right and the last thing we would want to do is disrupt whatever it is we're doing right. Let him take all the time he needs to beat his fitness problems, by all means let him train with the first team and then bring him back for summer training to prepare for the new season. We're not finding a buyer for him, so let's see what he can give us next season.
This season is shot anyway, except for our two cup runs, and I see no point in even thinking about bringing back for the run in even if he's somehow declared fit. If we're somehow in a SF of either cup we must by then be doing something right and the last thing we would want to do is disrupt whatever it is we're doing right. Let him take all the time he needs to beat his fitness problems, by all means let him train with the first team and then bring him back for summer training to prepare for the new season. We're not finding a buyer for him, so let's see what he can give us next season.
Doesnt score enough goals. We are going to need the 2 players in the 10 roles to be getting 10-15 league goals a season.
Fair points but I am still holding out hope for Mount to be a success in Amorims system if/when he gets fit and firing
Mount getting injured resulted in Amorim to move Diallo to that CAM position from RWB.
Really hope he makes an appearance again this season, with Diallo and Dorgu on the wings.
Really hope he makes an appearance again this season, with Diallo and Dorgu on the wings.
Such a wierd post. He had a purple patch at Chelsea, but even before his injuries there there was a a feeling he was getting found out. He is quite limited in terms of his skill set. To call him a 'player of tremendous quality' is frankly a joke. I know several Chelsea season ticket holders and none were sad to him go, in fact they felt it was a great deal for Chelsea. Even when fit its always hard to pin down exactly what he is good at. If we had signed him on a free it was worth a punt, but £60m with 12 months left and already an injury risk was another joke signing.
Any expected return date for him?
Seems like a nice guy, but just an absolute nothing of a player. I said it all the time when he was at Chelsea, what is the point of Mount? What is he? What does he bring? Not a midfielder, not a striker, not a winger, the only place he can really play is at 10, but are we really going to sacrifice the most creative position on the team for a guy that puts himself about a bit?
If the injuries weren't a concern he could play a Park Ji-Sung role, substitute most of the time, horses for courses some of the time, it does seem to be the one real quality he has is his pressing. But he is not someone the team will ever be built around or revolve around.
But because of the injury record he should be moved on, harsh on him, but this has been a reoccurring issue at United that needs to be nipped in the bud to move forward.
If the injuries weren't a concern he could play a Park Ji-Sung role, substitute most of the time, horses for courses some of the time, it does seem to be the one real quality he has is his pressing. But he is not someone the team will ever be built around or revolve around.
But because of the injury record he should be moved on, harsh on him, but this has been a reoccurring issue at United that needs to be nipped in the bud to move forward.
Next question?
Really hope we offload this guy as soon as he's "fit" again. It's not like he's Luke Shaw and we're gaining anything from it anyway, he's been useless in every shape and form.
Not a hope of this happening. He's on 250k a week and a proven record of being constantly injured.
What boggles my mind is how everyone on this forum knew this was a bad signing and yet our club continued to pay 50 million for him.
You are absolutely right.
We signed the wrong player, at the wrong time, for the wrong team and manager, but now he could actually work really well, if only he weren't a permacrock.
That's our last decade in a nutshell.
On the salary bit, Mount's salary was tripled from 80k at Chelsea to 250k here but it was reported that Chelsea offered him 200k for 2 years (it would have started from his last year contract and had another year added to it)so they can buy more time before they offered him a long term deal, and United wanted to get him and offered him 250k, not a good justification for me but it might explain the background on how he ended up with such a huge salary with us.
As for Antony, he got 4x raise from 25k at Ajax to 105k here, he is not on 200k at all.
He's allergic to playing football
Where are you getting that? Most articles report his wages as 200k.
Antony's salary is 105k (140k when in the Champions League). I have no idea where this 200k figure came from. It's wrong, and I'm guessing was put out to make this transfer look even worse than it is.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6090868/2025/01/27/antony-manchester-united-loan-exit-95m/
The Mount signing sums up why we are in a mess on and off the pitch. He was never needed, no due diligence done as he had a poor injury record and was out of contract in 12 months. He was worth max 30 million. There wasnt a place in the team when he was signed, he was never going to be picked aheadf of bruno. A disaster signing, one of many. He needs to be offloaded in the summer.
Don't even remember when he got injured and when was supposed to be back, can't remember a transfer when after 2 years it doesn't even feel like he's a United player
We will struggle to sell him, he will be the most difficult to sell of our entire squad, unlike Casemiro for ex, he is always injured. Who would want to take a mediocre midfielder, on a superstar salary who is never available? My guess he will be here till the last day of his contract and then leave as a free agent.
Best we can do with Mount is wait until his injury gets better and then not play him for another 6-8 months.
This will give him time to recover properly aswell as piss him off because he isnt playing games. See if we can play him for 3 months in cup games as a rotation option and then hope he can handle it and eventually sell him for about 8-10 million
This will give him time to recover properly aswell as piss him off because he isnt playing games. See if we can play him for 3 months in cup games as a rotation option and then hope he can handle it and eventually sell him for about 8-10 million
Reliable Reports emerged during the loan news when it was said that Betis would pay 84% of his wages which simply rules out the £200k (€240k) salary, he is defo on £104k which means Betis would pay £87k which is reasonable.
Thanks for sharing this.
Exactly. Terrible decision. Signed him to play a CM role. Imagine paying this much to utilise a player out of his position. Add to this, injury. Very frustrating
There’s an account on Threads who has been accurate in the past about line ups and availability, who suggests Mount is one of the set backs this week and potentially out of the season. I’m not going to start posting it on here and I’m not on Twitter. Probably rubbish, but wouldn’t be surprised.
Would like to see the back of him in the summer window. He's been a disaster for Manchester United, living off two good seasons under Lampard and Tuchel.
A half bothered Rashford has offered more, just let that sink in. Get rid.
A half bothered Rashford has offered more, just let that sink in. Get rid.
He should be sold in the summer. Another disastrous signing.
Who's gonna buy him?