My inner Muppet is very much not excited about this one. But maybe im just missing something
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I don't really buy the narrative that he can't even get in the Chelsea team, so he's gash.
I wouldn't judge any one player on the car crash of a season Chelsea have had, whether they're in the team or not.
He was a big part of a team that did well under Tuchel, and in the 21/22 season played 33 league games and scored 11 goals. That's a decent return from a midfielder. That Tuchel is after him for Bayern speaks of how highly he thinks of him. Similar can be said of Klopp. He won Chelsea's player of the year in both 20/21 and 21/22, he hasn't turned into a bad player all of a sudden.
He's not a player to blow half of your budget on, especially when we're in such dire need of a striker, but if we can get him for a somewhat decent fee, I'd be for it. We need more goals from midfield, one league goal from Eriksen is not good enough, and Mount has energy and legs that would help with the managers pressing game.
I wouldn't judge any one player on the car crash of a season Chelsea have had, whether they're in the team or not.
He was a big part of a team that did well under Tuchel, and in the 21/22 season played 33 league games and scored 11 goals. That's a decent return from a midfielder. That Tuchel is after him for Bayern speaks of how highly he thinks of him. Similar can be said of Klopp. He won Chelsea's player of the year in both 20/21 and 21/22, he hasn't turned into a bad player all of a sudden.
He's not a player to blow half of your budget on, especially when we're in such dire need of a striker, but if we can get him for a somewhat decent fee, I'd be for it. We need more goals from midfield, one league goal from Eriksen is not good enough, and Mount has energy and legs that would help with the managers pressing game.
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Caicedo or Rice would be a much wiser replacement for Fred, given his role. If there's funds left over we could potentially get a scouted DLP to replace Eriksen, instead of Mount who isn't a DLP either.
What qualities does he bring that we're missing? He's not especially creative, press-resistant or adept at controlling the tempo. Praying this falls through. Is our new scout system not in place yet?
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And Mourinho.
Ex-Chelsea rarely shine at Man United. I think Ray Wilkins was the last one to go well.
Tbf any United signings / managers have rarely shined over the last decade.
Depressing, if true. So many other midfielders out there, and we are going after Mount. He is just so average. Please, Poch, do us a favor and convince him to stay.
Mata and Matic were actually great buys. Age caught up to them. Mismanagement by Moyes and Van Gaal in particular fekked Mata, admittedly the second of two panic buys by Moyes, by far the most insane acquisition by United.
Why do you think Ten Hag and Klopp want him?
Maybe it could work if diamond is used in the defensive phase:
Frimpong - CB - Martinez - Shaw
-------Bruno - Casemiro - Rabiot
-------------------Mount
-----------------ST - Rashford
When in attacking phase set up wcould be 3-2-3-2 something like this:
-----------CB - Martinez - Shaw
------------Casemiro - Rabiot
--------Frimpong - Bruno - Mount
-----------------ST - Rashford
Or 3-2-4-1 with Rashford on the left flank and Frimpong on the right to get some additional pace if needed.
And where does he even play if he wants Rice as well? RW? I'm so confused.
I don't know. Probably for the same reason Klopp wanted Brandt, and presumably Nunez. Or Ten Hag wanted Antony.
Is there any United fan who would be excited by a Mount signing?
There are no qualities at the highest level, might as well just keep Fred.
There are no qualities at the highest level, might as well just keep Fred.
Most United fans wanted to get rid of Rashford (I think about 75% of this forum).
It's not Man United fans in particular either, most fans are pretty much clueless about scouting players.
Guarantee if he went to Liverpool and teared it up and became a shrewd signing, most of the CAF would complain to high heaven that the scouts United have are shit, everyone is shit and why can't we make these type of signings.
he’s not going to “tear it up” anywhere
United fans want to get rid of most United players and overrate every player from an outside club.
Mount doesn’t play for United, and still has no fans?
I'll give you Jota as an example of being an arguably mediocre player moving to a different club and exceeding all expectations.
If it was Neves instead of Mount, I reckon most people would talk a lot more positively about this potential transfer.
He plays for England though so is automatically shit to 95% of this website.
Don’t call me a titStop being a deluded tit. He’s leaving
And I know exactly what will happen, he’ll stay and likely sign a new deal. I’d come back to you on it and you’d hide like a little bitch
Macallister a far better player - going to Liverpool.
Lavia a far better prospect - will go to Chelsea for half the fee we'll end up paying for Mount.
Mount will probably cost us as much as Macallister. And the only beneficiaries will be Chelsea.
Terrible transfer deal for us from all angles. Maguire/AWB vibes
Lavia a far better prospect - will go to Chelsea for half the fee we'll end up paying for Mount.
Mount will probably cost us as much as Macallister. And the only beneficiaries will be Chelsea.
Terrible transfer deal for us from all angles. Maguire/AWB vibes
Agreed.
Point in case Kane and Rice.
Even though I'm not a massive fan of Rice, still agree with the sentiment.
Oil me up and Mount me 
Thank you for saying this. One of the top threads in this forum was “Rashford; new contract or sell?”, and most wanted to sell. I think “clueless” is even generous. Most fans are knee jerk morons who take 99% of their player opinions from highlights packages and boil down entire careers to the most recent 90 minutes.
Can’t argue against that.
I also noticed he played at Vitesse, explains why he is on the ETH shortlist.
Bookmarked.
1) Hasn't happened yet.
2) Hasn't happened yet either and have yet to even see any links to it. Stop making shite up.
Really don't understand the negativity around this and if we sign him, hope he proves everyone wrong.
Have you really watched him play? Have you really looked at how he can contribute to both the defensive and attacking phases of play? Depressing? Really? Come on now.
What was the last signing which was as universally disliked?
Fellaini, Maguire? Not great company.
Assuming he effectively plays in Eriksen's place as these reports suggest, he would upgrade our midfield in terms of energy and pressing ability while maintaining sufficient technical ability to do a lot of the things Eriksen currently does.
none of those players are good enough to be starters for a Man Utd side that wants to challenge, Jota is a Liverpool squaddie
Nothing has happened yet. Everything is obviously hypothetical.
The negativity is because we're all now so used to signing overpriced English players who are obviously poor signings before they even arrive. And Mount is in an even worse position than Maguire/Sancho because he's already an outcast from a truly terrible Chelsea team. For the money Chelsea will demand this deal is lunacy.
Genuinely don't think Mac Allister is better than Mount. They're on a similar level. Good but nothing more than that.
Lavia plays in a different position and is nowhere near ready to start for us. I'm not sure if he's that good from the games I've seen him in.
if Utd sign Mount I give it a season before the “should we try Mount at fullback” posts pop up
Well it rescued Young, Lingard and Sancho's United careers so no doubt it'll work for Mount as well.Prime example of a totally overrated player because he is English. Even during his best times under Tuchel he looked bog average to me and we truly have enough average players of our own, on top of that he plays the same position as Bruno
The negativity is that we're linked with a pretty average and quite boring player and other teams are linked with better ones. Why would anyone be positive about that?
And why are you showing loyalty to a player we don't even own
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