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Full Name: Mason Tony Mount
Date of Birth: Jan 10, 1999
Nationality: England
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Height: 181cm
Squad Number: 7
Position: Midfield - Attacking Midfield
Foot: Right
Player Agent: Relatives
Contract expires: Jun 30, 2028
Contract option: Club option 1 year​
 
Think he will be our 4th choice midfielder, was great today, able to do Scholes passes from side to side and has a very good engine so is not a defensively as poor as Eriksen who I think he is pretty similiar to in possesion.
 
He's a decent, neat and tidy player but his incurable injury will always stop him being a regular. He will be useful to have as a backup/squad player though.
 
Mount is an incredible player and would easily be in our first 11 and the England 11 if he had a different body. Has lots of football intelligence, great technically, can pass and dribble but unfortunately cant play more than 15 games a season.
 
MrBest said:
Mount is an incredible player and would easily be in our first 11 and the England 11 if he had a different body. Has lots of football intelligence, great technically, can pass and dribble but unfortunately cant play more than 15 games a season.
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You think Mount is superior to Bruno?
Because that is his main position.

He isn't great on the wings, and he isn't good enough defensively to play in our deeper midfielder roles.
 
AkaAkuma said:
I think Carrick sees his value and potential in midfield.
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He's playing him there in pre-season because Mainoo and Tielemans are on holiday. We're also signing another one before the end of the window.

Mount will be used to give Bruno an occasional rest, when he's fit, which will be rare.
 
MrBest said:
Mount is an incredible player and would easily be in our first 11 and the England 11 if he had a different body. Has lots of football intelligence, great technically, can pass and dribble but unfortunately cant play more than 15 games a season.
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Ødegaard said:
You think Mount is superior to Bruno?
Because that is his main position.

He isn't great on the wings, and he isn't good enough defensively to play in our deeper midfielder roles.
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He's also competing with Bellingham for his spot in the England line up. And Rogers, Gibbs White, Palmer, Foden and Eze.
 
I love this guy but he's not a serious option anymore. He owes us and I see his talents and uses if he can ever stay fit again but it's a sunken cost, even Mount would agree. He seems like a really nice guy and he has a lot of experience but you have to produce to stay in this squad. It has to be the minimum for lads on big wages. I still really hope he can somehow become a useful player for us but it's been hard reading so far. He's like Shaw. He's a class player when he's fit and he gets a few games. They were the Alex Scott of those summers in a really lose definition. You should always sign the best English player on the market when they come up.

I think Anderson and Rogers are both good players and we'd be far better for having them than not but we also underestimate the level of talent on the books here already. If those players are happy we are a top 4 team. 100%
 
Dominos said:
He's playing him there in pre-season because Mainoo and Tielemans are on holiday. We're also signing another one before the end of the window.

Mount will be used to give Bruno an occasional rest, when he's fit, which will be rare.
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I dont agree, lets see how it plays out.
 
Dominos said:
He's playing him there in pre-season because Mainoo and Tielemans are on holiday. We're also signing another one before the end of the window.

Mount will be used to give Bruno an occasional rest, when he's fit, which will be rare.
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Occasionally as a 10, occasionally deeper in midfield is my guess. He'll get games when fit, and nobody will play more minutes than Bruno so it makes sense.
 
Very good on the ball against Rosenborg, but I don't think he reads the play well defensively in a double pivot. He really needs to be in a triangle midfield or just a #10 on a pressing team. I guess when Bruno rests and he plays, we could play:

Mainoo/Tielemans-------------Mount
---------------------Santos/DM--------------

and it might look okay.
 
For me he was our best player against RBK. That’s theee games on the trot he’s been one of our best from a CM position. An increadibly weak sample of games, but it’s interesting to see. The most notable might be that he’s actually has been eligible for three games on the trot!
 
Grande said:
For me he was our best player against RBK. That’s theee games on the trot he’s been one of our best from a CM position. An increadibly weak sample of games, but it’s interesting to see. The most notable might be that he’s actually has been eligible for three games on the trot!
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He’s a quality player, show by many solid years at Chelsea and for England. In contrast to other crocks or workshy players we’ve had, there’s no reason he won’t become a key player IF he stays fit
 
He's an interesting player because he doesn't have any world class stand-out quality. He's quick, but he's not blistering. He is technically very good, but not upper tier. His passing is good to great, but not top class either. His creativity is about average, and his goal scoring for us has been below par. His workrate is probably upper tier, but there are plenty of runners out there, so neither is this a stand-out quality. However, when fit and firing, he is a very clever all-round attacking midfielder that can work out wide, centrally and probably as the more attacking of a midfield duo especially against lesser teams - he's quite combative.

So yes, he could, if injury free, be a very useful player, but his wages are far too high. Could be interesting though - he wouldn't be the first player in the world when in his prime gets rid of his injuries. If so, he's like, I said it, a new signing!
 
He was great. I will just enjoy having him in the team in the coming season. All the negativity and sometimes anger that a player is injured is a bit mind-boggling to me. We don't pay him his wages, INEOS and the Glazers do. So I for one am happy he is our player and currently available and seems raring to go.
 
To be honest, you'd expect him to shine against the quality of opposition we've played in pre-season. He can be a useful player, when fit, but I'm not expecting some rejuvenated Mount to break into the team this season.
 
Dominos said:
He's playing him there in pre-season because Mainoo and Tielemans are on holiday. We're also signing another one before the end of the window.

Mount will be used to give Bruno an occasional rest, when he's fit, which will be rare.
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Played him there in the last game of the season away at Brighton and thought he was really good that game.

Call me crazy but i think we might see big rewards from using him and trusting him in midfield. Massive issue as always is trusting him to stay fit for enough games to prove it.
 
I hope they’re trying something new with regards to his injuries, because we can’t have a player who’s fit for 5 games a season on his wages. It’s a shame for everyone that he’s such a crock.
 
Dominos said:
He's playing him there in pre-season because Mainoo and Tielemans are on holiday. We're also signing another one before the end of the window.

Mount will be used to give Bruno an occasional rest, when he's fit, which will be rare.
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He also played there away to Brighton last game of the season when they needed to win to get a Champions League spot and he and the team both played brilliantly. It's pretty obvious he is now being considered for that role even if it's only a backup emergency thing.
 
He’s a good player when fit and has an excellent game pro rate but he hasn’t shown anything to suggest he can stay fit since he joined.

I know he has had a few good games but he isn’t a CM, if we don’t buy another one and rely on him then it’s just incompetence. It’s so predictable it will backfire even if he can stay fit.
 
Mount is quality but we cannot gamble on him not breaking down.
 
El Jefe said:
Played him there in the last game of the season away at Brighton and thought he was really good that game.

Call me crazy but i think we might see big rewards from using him and trusting him in midfield. Massive issue as always is trusting him to stay fit for enough games to prove it.
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reddev3 said:
He also played there away to Brighton last game of the season when they needed to win to get a Champions League spot and he and the team both played brilliantly. It's pretty obvious he is now being considered for that role even if it's only a backup emergency thing.
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I'm sure he's an emergency option there.

I'm still not seeing how he's going to start ahead of Mainoo, Tielemans, Santos and whoever the final midfield signing is.
 
Santos and Mount - the new Cleverley and Anderson. Expecting a 8-2!
 
It's a shame he's on such high wages as I reckon we could've gotten most of our money back on him from a mid table club like a Newcastle, especially when you see the likes of Bergvall getting sold for over 50m. It would've been good to see us capitalise on this insane market with our player sales, but Mount and Rashford's wages are too high.
 
El Jefe said:
Played him there in the last game of the season away at Brighton and thought he was really good that game.

Call me crazy but i think we might see big rewards from using him and trusting him in midfield. Massive issue as always is trusting him to stay fit for enough games to prove it.
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reddev3 said:
He also played there away to Brighton last game of the season when they needed to win to get a Champions League spot and he and the team both played brilliantly. It's pretty obvious he is now being considered for that role even if it's only a backup emergency thing.
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Well yeah, because Casemiro was out and we literally had no other senior options (Ugarte was barely even trusted for a few sub minutes under Carrick). We've yet to see Mount be selected at CM when we've had other senior CMs available. I'm sure it will happen at times when other players are unavailable or in cup games. But I don't see him becoming a fixture at CM. He'll most likeley remain a versatile squad option who can fill various tactical roles.
 
Any player—whether it's Mount or someone else—performing well in pre-season doesn't really mean much. What matters are the competitive games. He's the kind of player who, when he's injured, only gets frustrated comments from fans, but as soon as he comes back and puts in a decent performance, people start trying to see qualities that just aren't really there. I think he'll always stay at this level. He's a good enough player for a Manchester United side aiming for the top four, but being an undisputed starter for a team challenging for the Premier League is a different story. I can easily see him staying because he's on top-level wages.
 
sheva1992 said:
Any player—whether it's Mount or someone else—performing well in pre-season doesn't really mean much. What matters are the competitive games. He's the kind of player who, when he's injured, only gets frustrated comments from fans, but as soon as he comes back and puts in a decent performance, people start trying to see qualities that just aren't really there. I think he'll always stay at this level. He's a good enough player for a Manchester United side aiming for the top four, but being an undisputed starter for a team challenging for the Premier League is a different story. I can easily see him staying because he's on top-level wages.
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Hard to disagree with any of this.
 
pascell said:
What injury is that?
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A guy I know that works at Chelsea told me the reason they got rid of him was because he has an incurable hip injury that will need to be managed for the rest of his career.

Based on his time here so far and the vague injury absences he has then it sounds like its true.
 
Dominos said:
I'm sure he's an emergency option there.

I'm still not seeing how he's going to start ahead of Mainoo, Tielemans, Santos and whoever the final midfield signing is.
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But you said he's only playing there because there is nobody else and I don't think that's true. I think they see him as a very viable option to play there if he's fit.

If he's fit and playing well there's more chance of him benching Mainoo/Santos than there is of him benching Cunha and Bruno. Whether you you like him or not every manager seems to want him on the pitch when he's fit. Even Klopp and Arteta were after him at the time of his move here (I think Liverpool nearly signed him but they backed out after the valuations were too far apart so bought Mac Allister instead).

Now I don't think he's earmarked to be the starter in there but if he plays and plays better than the others that will change the same way Dorgu wasn't considered a LW 6 months ago compared to now.
 
MaMa given red said:
A guy I know that works at Chelsea told me the reason they got rid of him was because he has an incurable hip injury that will need to be managed for the rest of his career.

Based on his time here so far and the vague injury absences he has then it sounds like its true.
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I'm sure that would have been flagged on his United medical, no?
 
reddev3 said:
But you said he's only playing there because there is nobody else and I don't think that's true. I think they see him as a very viable option to play there if he's fit.

If he's fit and playing well there's more chance of him benching Mainoo/Santos than there is of him benching Cunha and Bruno. Whether you you like him or not every manager seems to want him on the pitch when he's fit. Even Klopp and Arteta were after him at the time of his move here (I think Liverpool nearly signed him but they backed out after the valuations were too far apart so bought Mac Allister instead).

Now I don't think he's earmarked to be the starter in there but if he plays and plays better than the others that will change the same way Dorgu wasn't considered a LW 6 months ago compared to now.
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If Mainoo and Tielemans were available from the first pre-season game, I am making a pretty safe bet they'd be prioritised ahead of Mount, yes. Mount may have been starting in the 10 though since Bruno is still on holiday.

I'm sure he's an option in midfield, just one that is unlikely to see many starts there unless there's an injury crisis. Mount was fit for most of the 2nd half of the season under Carrick but was a bench player, he started twice when Casemiro was unavailable. So it's not that Carrick wants him on the pitch when he's fit, he wanted him on the bench when he had a full set of players to choose from.
 
He is having a good preseason but hard to get excited when you are expecting the inevitable injury anytime soon , it will look innocuous. The club will say it is not too serious and should be back in weeks , and then we don't see him for 6 months.
 
Dominos said:
If Mainoo and Tielemans were available from the first pre-season game, I am making a pretty safe bet they'd be prioritised ahead of Mount, yes. Mount may have been starting in the 10 though since Bruno is still on holiday.

I'm sure he's an option in midfield, just one that is unlikely to see many starts there unless there's an injury crisis. Mount was fit for most of the 2nd half of the season under Carrick but was a bench player, he started twice when Casemiro was unavailable. So it's not that Carrick wants him on the pitch when he's fit, he wanted him on the bench when he had a full set of players to choose from.
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But that doesn't mean he's not earmarked for the CM position going into next season which is what some people were saying. He could play the second 45 mins and replace one of those two if they were here the same way Santos would.

Literally nobody is saying he's going to be first choice CM. People said they think he will be used in CM as well as further forward this season and you tried to shut that down by saying there was literally nobody else to play in CM (there was) in the three games he's played there and he's only there as an emergency.

We'll see how it pans out but I think Carrick likes the look of him in there and I wouldn't be surprised to see him start the season next to Santos while Mainoo gets his fitness back up and the new signings bed in.

It's all moot anyway as he will be injured after a few games as always.
 
Ødegaard said:
You think Mount is superior to Bruno?
Because that is his main position.

He isn't great on the wings, and he isn't good enough defensively to play in our deeper midfielder roles.
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Did I mention at all, a comparison to Bruno. NO. I said, i think he is a great player who has been hampered by injuries in the last few years.

Whether he could have competed with Bruno, we will never know because he has been injured for the last 3 years.
 
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