You make it sound like Mount can't pass, dribble or carry the ball.
Eriksen and Bruno could do all of that but stunk the place out many times when played in an attacking 8 role. People say Eriksen was good against weaker teams but we really struggled with him in the team since January against all kinds of teams.
The only advantage Mount has over Eriksen is that he is younger and has more workrate. We also had a workhorse in midfield - Fred and that didn’t work out either. I don’t think Mount can work as hard as Bruno or is as creative and even Bruno struggled when played in a deeper position.
Playing in deep midfield areas demand a different kind of skill set and this is not the time to gamble on Mount adapting.
My main concern is cost(if he costs anything over 50m and 200k+ wages it will affect us buying quality players in other positions. If our transfer budget is huge and we could add another quality proper central midfielder I’ll be very happy and would be all in for this transfer.
We have to stop blindly trusting our manager, we have been burned far too many times to keep making the same mistakes again.