I genuinely believe that there is more than meets the eye with his ‘injury’, and due to sensitivity (or even legal ramifications), the press have been briefed not to bring up Mount. There has been far too little noise from the mainstream press, when you’d expect them to be all over this considering the circumstances (fee paid, contract expiring, #7, etc.), and the current return on investment.
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Wow I had no idea he was on 250k p/w, staggering sum of money.
We have 3 players who are #10s (Bruno, Eriksen, and Mount) but I suspect once Mount is back EtH will resume pretending 2 of them are #8s.
I am almost certain that the first time Mount returns it will be at #8. That’s not ideal because we’ll either bench Kobbie or push him into a #6 role in which he can’t succeed because of the massive hole he’ll have to cover. It will expose him defensively just as it’s exposed Casemiro.
If Mount is going to play in this squad, it needs to be for Bruno at #10.
We have 3 players who are #10s (Bruno, Eriksen, and Mount) but I suspect once Mount is back EtH will resume pretending 2 of them are #8s.
I am almost certain that the first time Mount returns it will be at #8. That’s not ideal because we’ll either bench Kobbie or push him into a #6 role in which he can’t succeed because of the massive hole he’ll have to cover. It will expose him defensively just as it’s exposed Casemiro.
If Mount is going to play in this squad, it needs to be for Bruno at #10.
Yeah, that happens a lot. Manager permanently drops long-serving player who he recently made club captain and replaces him an injury prone player who's only made 12 appearances for the club.
Buying a bang-average injury-prone Mason Mount for 55-60m when available for free a year later was fecking stupid then, and even more now.
A manager lives and dies by his signings, and Antony and Mount will cost him.
A manager lives and dies by his signings, and Antony and Mount will cost him.
It's kinda funny not gonna lie.
Unfortunately our manager has the same failed policy of previous managers where he has untouchable players who cannot be benched or even substituted. Even when Bruno is bad, he still plays 90 minutes even if to make it work he shunts him out of position to the wing where he has never looked even solid nevermind good.
My captain must always play. Whhhhyyyyyyyyy????
And if I not am mistaken Mason was a highly valuable part of the squad when fit.
Absolutely bizarre that we went for him
Thank god, we've really missed those 0 goals and 0 assists and 0 key passes per game.
At this point, having just thrown away any realistic chance of CL qualification with the dropped points to Spurs and Fulham, there's really no reason to rush Mount back. Summer training will begin soon enough and with the added recovery time from whatever this injury is he will, surely, be fit to start on a regular basis for us once we sell Bruno this summer.
Meh, won't play until mid April most likely.
Exactly the same tweets were doing rounds end of December.
Same here.
I wouldn't be surprised if he never played under this manager again actually.
Can’t see him starting over Bruno and don’t want him taking Mainoo’s place in the team.
What would that "more than meets the eye" be?
Can not see him playing for us more than a few minutes here and there. He was so poor before the injury.
This is such a good point because as fans we logically focus on football whereas there are too many other elements going on backstage. If we were well run, there ain't no way we would have signed such an underwhelming player for that much money with 1 year left on his contract
A settled, pre injury MM would be better for us as a team than Bruno is, fight me.
He cannot do what Mainoo does, nor can he do what Casemiro does.
Which is why he made absolutely zero fecking sense to buy in the summer to anyone who understands football.
But we keep buying AMs and either dont play them or play them in the wrong positions, so its extremely on brand for us.
Which is why he made absolutely zero fecking sense to buy in the summer to anyone who understands football.
But we keep buying AMs and either dont play them or play them in the wrong positions, so its extremely on brand for us.
There are only two possibilities I can think of:
He wanted to play 4141 like Arteta does with Havertz and Odegaard in front of Rice. He wanted to play Mount and Bruno as the two number 10's ahead of Casemiro in our 3 man midfield set-up. I think the idea was flawed from the beginning as neither of Mount or Bruno are very good on the ball and can't keep it under pressure like Odegaard can. In fact, Bruno is absolutely terrible at holding the ball or under any kind of pressure and deals with it as if its Kryptonite.
Or other the possibility is that he wanted Mount to slowly integrate him into the team in Bruno's position. It's a bit of stretch for me as that would mean that ETH had some kind of plan.
At the start of the season, nobody knew what Mainoo could do at this level. Hindsight is nice, but you cannot base your season on an unproven 18 year old as a starter for central midfield.
Was Mount the wrong choice, most likely, but Mainoo has been a surprise to most.
I agree. Which is why we needed a player in the Mainoo mould, in that profile, not an AM like Mount.
As for the playing both Bruno and Mount idea, yeah we have already seen that doesnt work. If Bruno was Modric/KdB/Odegaard it could have worked, but its Bruno so its not gonna work.
He hasn't, he has generally been at least good for them despite regularly playing as a 6 which isn't his best position
I swear the lad has been "on track" and "a couple of weeks away" for about 5 months now.
Just can't understand how he can fit in this team, or what he can provide to us.
That kid will need a rest at some point.
This season has essentially been a write off for him. He deserves his chance next season.
All these midfielders, and still no midfield.
Yeah that's the 60 million pound question...I've nothing against Mount and want him to do well! but I don't think any fan has ever understood the signing 100%
Maybe next season after a few departures/arrivals his position will become clearer.
But he needs to put theses injuries behind him first, last thing United need is another sicknote.
What exactly was his injury?
How can anyone really fit in this team when its being setup by a manager who hasnt got a clue what he is doing tactically.
I'm half expecting Ten Hag to play Mainoo as a 6 and slot Mount back in at that 8 spot.
His comeback will be a Casemiro Mount Mainoo 3 with Bruno on the right and hopefully Rashford dropped for Garnacho on the left. That’ll be the next thing we try I’d say. To be fair Rasmus should get a bit more service with Mount in the team and Bruno crossing to him.
Should drop Bruno for him.
Probably won't happen though.
Dalot at LB and Mount at RB. He can actually cross.
Probably won't happen though.
Dalot at LB and Mount at RB. He can actually cross.
I don't watch Liverpool much, but my understanding is he started the season really poorly but has been in good form since the turn of the year.
Eh, it's a much of a muchness for me. I'm far from a Fernandes fan, but I think Mount's deficiencies are pretty similar to Fernandes. For me, both are very loose no.10/8 hybrids, offer very little defensively (other than high pressures), and he too isn't much cop with the ball in tight areas under pressure.
Fernandes is a ball hogger who wants to attempt the killer pass at every opportunity, Mount is one of those no.10s who likes to see less of the ball and pop up in pockets in the final third. Neither really fill me with hope.
I think Mount probably suits a 'modern' football side a little bit better, but I'm still not massively convinced by him.
No surprise really. Chelsea finished 12th last season and deemed him surplus to requirement... says it all.
He's been as anonymous when he's played as he has been when he's been hugging the physios bench. A complete waste of a signing.
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but Mount fits much better into the system that we all thought we were getting from ETH. Bruno has the killer glory ball but he does not at all fit into a structured style of play.
Whether we want to see the kind of chaotic football Bruno guarantees us is a different question, but if we don’t and want to see more cohesion in our play then top Mason trumps top Bruno.
Seconded, this is how I feel as well.
Didn't we hear pretty much the same thing for the last 2 months ?
i mean i guess, absolutely best case scenario is EtH was thinking mount comes in, plays well, and we can start weaning off Bruno and maybe move on from him and have mount lead the attack in midfield with a more structured approach? Anything else and this is just a dumbass signing. The Alexis Sanchez signing of the midfield when we decided when we had two good players at the LW spot in rashford/martial at the time to bring another high money signing there.