I think this +5 nonsense is for Chelsea more than us, this is a £55mil deal in all but name imo.
Mason Mount | Confirmed
- Thread starter UnitedSofa
- Start date
- Status
So much for not raising our offer
I genuinely thought that maybe we'd get him for £55m guaranteed with no add-ons or something similar to only pay them a maximum of £55m
To be fair, £5m add-ons is feck all in the grand scheme of things. Seeing as amortisation is so in vogue these days - "DECLAN RICE ACTUALLY COSTS £20M" (per season for 5 years), any Arsenal fan - Mount for half the price with bits added on isn't too sloppy.
Saying that, I've now got to start liking him as I've always been fuming whenever he's started for England. Hopefully there's a Salah post-Chelsea style rebirth at United.
Agreed. Four four two did a video on him and even last season he was defensively brilliant even if not so good going forward as before
Stop with this 'we funded Caicedo' shit, if they want Caicedo, they would have bought him even if Mount stayed.
I didn’t ask that did I
15m too much and I personally have a bad feeling about this, but glad it's done and we can move on to next targets.
We sure showed them
You've only just noticed?
Couldn’t give a monkeys about the fee. I’m just pleased we’ve done something that resembles backing the manager.
Hopefully this works out.
Hopefully this works out.
I dont see the point. We have Eriksen and Bruno. Surely money need to go elsewhere?
I'm sure the structure was just adjusted to meet in the middle. Huge price, United tax is basically 15m for every transfer and that feels about the tax on this one given his contract situation, but anyway. He'll improve us loads IMO. On the ball not a big difference to Eriksen, mainly off the ball where I think he'll be closer to fred. So a Fred/Eriksen blend to start next to Bruno and Case. And a great age too. Something our midfield group was desperate for.
Eriksen as depth for Mount and Bruno is very nice too. Sort out what we do with McTominay/Fred, I'm comfortable keeping mctominay as Casemiros backup so that Mctom and Eriksen is the backup pair.
Eriksen as depth for Mount and Bruno is very nice too. Sort out what we do with McTominay/Fred, I'm comfortable keeping mctominay as Casemiros backup so that Mctom and Eriksen is the backup pair.
I like how the one year that midfield isn't our biggest priority, we sign a midfielder first.
Is midfield the new centre-back?
Is midfield the new centre-back?
That’s if you believe what the media has been saying..
Ah, the classic "package deal" whereby every add-on is reported as if it's part of the guaranteed fee whenever United are involved. Nonetheless, I'm happy. Mount is a very good player.
Copy & paste job again for romano
A lot of money for Mount. Oh well, welcome!
Any good Chelsea chants for him we can copy?
Mount, Mount, Mount! or something like that?
Any good Chelsea chants for him we can copy?
Mount, Mount, Mount! or something like that?
We added some "difficult" add-ons and Chelsea took what they could.
Weak and imobile
I hope I am so wrong about this. £55m for Mount. Our first signing of the summer. Yikes.
I actually dont care how much we pay, its not coming out of my bank account, but I do think English players are over priced.
I just want the team strengthened and Mount would do that.
Definitely. Ornstein says they're "difficult" to achieve
Depending on what the add ons actually are, we did pay what we said we would - £55m - so I don’t know why people are being so weird about it. It’s also how negotiating works.
Good player but £55m (forget that £5m in add ons. Its probably Ballon d'or or some something stupid) with less than one year left. Christ. Ten Hag cannot say he has not been backed.
Covering all of football there definitely isn't anybody close.
Exclusively for United, probably Whitwell for breaking news and being reliable? Mitten is reliable but isn't a news breaker as such.
Personally, I would say around £65m, which is what Arsenal paid for Havertz. In this current market, maybe £70m at a push is about as much as they would get.
We always cave in and we wonder why teams take us to the cleaners. £60m for a man with a year left coming off his worst season, this club man.
Only to realise that 60m was the number Chelsea wanted from the beginning. You set a high unrealistic price on purpose so that you fall to the number you really wanted. A potential 60m for Mount with a year left is a great deal for Chelsea not us. When you negotiate your salary at work do you tell them the number you really want or do you start high?
Good signing. People thinking we could buy a english midfielder from Chelsea for much less than 55 fixed are living in the past.
Agreed. Ornstein says in the article that the +5 is difficult to achieve. Probably if we win the league/UCL, or something like that.
This is basically the compromise everyone said would happen. We didn't pay more than our last offer, technically, and Chelsea technically get closer to their valuation.
Everyone can say they won/saved face. As long as we get the player I don't care.
And then we'll be mystified when the next player we want to sign costs an extra £10m over what another club would pay for them.
They wanted £70m to begin with.
£70m+5m ish maybe? On the basis that Havertz went for £65m+5m?
But that's assuming they'd be as happy to let him go as the were Havertz, which in real terms they likely wouldn't be. If he wasn't on the last year of his contract I don't think anyone pays what it takes to sign him.
Sigh.
I hate how he posts, i bet he talks in like bullet point statements too
- She NEVER left the bathroom
- Onto the next targets
If Wan Bissaka can be coached to be the player he is today, I am excited to see how someone like Mount would turn out.
Welcome to United, Mason!
Welcome to United, Mason!
So we did raise our bid after the hard man approach 
I hope Brighton cleans them up. Now let's move on and get rinsed by Inter for Onana
Was one of the most obvious deals to be done. Was never not joining Utd, was either going now or next summer. Always suspected a compromise to be reached.
We didn't though? It's basically the same offer which was rejected.So we did raise our bid after the hard man approach
They were never going to lose a player based on £5m differenceSo we did raise our bid after the hard man approach
- Status