Mason Mount | Confirmed

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Walters_19_MuFc said:
People are assuming Mount will play deep, but I believe Bruno will replace Eriksen's role, with Mount playing silightly higher, being tasked with more the running in behind, getting into the box, etc.

If we look at Bruno's performances from a deeper 8 position last season, in my opinion, it's the best i've seen him play.

Whilst he hasn't the progressive carries of someone like De Jong, he has the ability to drop into the back three, where he can use his passing range and vision to progress us up the pitch in no time.

Below is a short clip of Bruno vs Everton away last season, where he played next to McTominay, with Sabitzer slightly ahead. His passing numbers were ridiculously good, and ten Hag constantly identified how well Bruno did slightly deeper.



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I touched upon this a couple of times in the thread. I can see it happening. I actually had the Everton game in mind when Bruno played a masterclass from deep. Can see it happening often.
 
United: this is our final offer.

Chelsea: one more, go on.

United: no haha this is final ;)

Chelsea: one more final one after the final will make it finally.

United: k … here’s £65m. Final
 
Balljy said:
Sabitzer has gone and Eriksen is getting on and will need replacing soon anyway. I expect Mount will play just in front of Casemiro and will be way more mobile and is a lot younger than Eriksen. If we can get him for the final offer it makes a lot of sense. We don't want to overpay, but having him as the first choice and playing Eriksen sparingly will make help us next season.

He won't play purely an AM, but will have attacking responsibilities.
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This is obviously a video to highlight an opinion a Chelsea fan had, so they are obviously choosing lowlights here. This video is simply evidence of Mount sometimes not making good decisions with his passing and buildup. It has clips of him doing it. He doesnt do it all the time, but its one of his weaker areas compared to someone known for their passing such as Eriksen, or better. And I think its worse than Bruno who we know is boom or bust a lot of the time with his end product passing and is frustrating at times when its not going right.

All this to say I dont think Mount is the kind of player to play deep and set our play going and be creative, which is Eriksen's role at the moment.




Again this video has been made specifically from someone perspective that Mount is bad for Chelsea's attack and that hes the problem more so than others. And I'm just posting it because it has a collection of clips that do indeed show Mount making poor choices.
 
Just walk away. If he really isn’t going to sign a new contract they’ll be calling back in a couple of weeks
 
awop said:
I'd like to think signing Havertz fecked United getting Mount wether that's true or not :drool:
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You better be worried if signing Havertz has cost you having enough money for the much better player Rice.
 
croadyman said:
So why did you just reject that more than fair price
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Because they've got a decade of United getting fleeced and not moving on to other options in these circumstances and think they can make a bit more from us?
 
We'll be back, it's what we do. But at £60m, pushing the spend to try get Caicedo or Rice would make more sense.
Good player but our midfield will still get bullied.
 
Unfortunately, we wont walk away. We will up the bid for 5m or maybe offer higher instalments, but i am sure we will keep negotiating. We are too weak
 
They lowered their asking price by a massive £2m :lol: taking the piss
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
People are assuming Mount will play deep, but I believe Bruno will replace Eriksen's role, with Mount playing silightly higher, being tasked with more the running in behind, getting into the box, etc.

If we look at Bruno's performances from a deeper 8 position last season, in my opinion, it's the best i've seen him play.

Whilst he hasn't the progressive carries of someone like De Jong, he has the ability to drop into the back three, where he can use his passing range and vision to progress us up the pitch in no time.

Below is a short clip of Bruno vs Everton away last season, where he played next to McTominay, with Sabitzer slightly ahead. His passing numbers were ridiculously good, and ten Hag constantly identified how well Bruno did slightly deeper.



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I must admit I was hugely impressed by Bruno playing in a deeper role.
 
Ekeke said:
This is obviously a video to highlight an opinion a Chelsea fan had, so they are obviously choosing lowlights here. This video is simply evidence of Mount sometimes not making good decisions with his passing and buildup. It has clips of him doing it. He doesnt do it all the time, but its one of his weaker areas compared to someone known for their passing such as Eriksen, or better. And I think its worse than Bruno who we know is boom or bust a lot of the time with his end product passing and is frustrating at times when its not going right.

All this to say I dont think Mount is the kind of player to play deep and set our play going and be creative, which is Eriksen's role at the moment.




Again this video has been made specifically from someone perspective that Mount is bad for Chelsea's attack and that hes the problem more so than others. And I'm just posting it because it has a collection of clips that do indeed show Mount making poor choices.
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Is this a joke? Sometimes not making good decisions? I stopped after the first half of the video because every single highlight is him making the RIGHT decision.

Some of the execution isn't perfect but honestly if this is the best that can be compiled for "lowlights" that's quite promising.
 
Ekeke said:
This is obviously a video to highlight an opinion a Chelsea fan had, so they are obviously choosing lowlights here. This video is simply evidence of Mount sometimes not making good decisions with his passing and buildup. It has clips of him doing it. He doesnt do it all the time, but its one of his weaker areas compared to someone known for their passing such as Eriksen, or better. And I think its worse than Bruno who we know is boom or bust a lot of the time with his end product passing and is frustrating at times when its not going right.

All this to say I dont think Mount is the kind of player to play deep and set our play going and be creative, which is Eriksen's role at the moment.




Again this video has been made specifically from someone perspective that Mount is bad for Chelsea's attack and that hes the problem more so than others. And I'm just posting it because it has a collection of clips that do indeed show Mount making poor choices.
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He's definitely worse than Eriksen at creativity, but is more mobile and better at running into space. His passing also looks pretty good there? He's also better defensively. We're going to change every position and what they do underTen Hag over the next few transfer windows and I think we're way off the structure he really wants. That makes it difficult to compare like-for-like.
 
We honestly need to learn to walk away from situations. Clubs take the p!as out of us knowing once we have our eyes set on someone we'll keep on coming back.

Mount is not such a unique talent that we have to spend such a huge amount on him, and specially when he has only got a year left on his contract.
 
Yakuza_devils said:
Deja Vu summer again. Overpaid for Maguire. Overpaid for Sancho. Overpaid for Antony. Hopefully when we overpaid for Mount he can actually make big contribution to the team unlike the above stated.
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We didn't overpay for Sancho. We would have overpaid if we'd bought him the prior summer for what Dortmund were asking.

But 70odd million for a player who was double-digit goals and assists for three seasons in a top league and still eligible for Young Player Of The Season? Worth it.

His not working out so far does not mean the numbers he put up didn't warrant the outlay.

Maguire? Yeah by 20m. Antony? Around 20m overpay too. Should have been Havertz to Arsenal like figure.
 
55m was a generous offer imo.

Walk away, we're venturing into caicedo type money.

But we know we'll overspend and hand over more than we should, it's the United way.
 
dinostar77 said:
Precident has been set recently, domestically for players with a single season left on their contract;

Sterling - city to chelsea £47.5m
Kovacevic - chelsea to city £30m

So a £50-55mil bid sounds fair to me. £60-65mil demanded by chelsea seems excessive.
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Yeah 50m seems the top level of what he'd be worth but a 5m overpay is fine. 40-45m would have been fair.
 
Bestie07 said:
We honestly need to learn to walk away from situations. Clubs take the p!as out of us knowing once we have our eyes set on someone we'll keep on coming back.

Mount is not such a unique talent that we have to spend such a huge amount on him, and specially when he has only got a year left on his contract.
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Until we do walk away from such situations then you can't really blame clubs for trying to fleece us.

We set the precedent
 
Ekeke said:
This is obviously a video to highlight an opinion a Chelsea fan had, so they are obviously choosing lowlights here. This video is simply evidence of Mount sometimes not making good decisions with his passing and buildup. It has clips of him doing it. He doesnt do it all the time, but its one of his weaker areas compared to someone known for their passing such as Eriksen, or better. And I think its worse than Bruno who we know is boom or bust a lot of the time with his end product passing and is frustrating at times when its not going right.

All this to say I dont think Mount is the kind of player to play deep and set our play going and be creative, which is Eriksen's role at the moment.
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This is true. Mount is at his best picking up positions between the lines/final third and playing on the half turn making quick incisive passes. That doesn't mean he won't drop back to link play now and then, but he's not going to be setting the tempo or anything like an Eriksen might have done.
 
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