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Mason Mount

You have James message at the end of last season which was clearly directed at Mount.

Enzo squaring up to him and then tapping the badge at the end of the game.

Gilchrist posting an image of him standing next to Mount saying "we fight till the end"

Mount has an incredible PR machine to make him seem like he was the one treated poorly, but not all of us are fooled. He will fit alongside other PR machines at United like Rashford and Maguire.

 
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Personally I can't get too excited about it all.  He left, seems he wanted to and we got a good deal.  Why all the gnashing of teeth about it.  We've signed players from other clubs who've made it clear they wanted to leave and join us and didn't act in a particularly 'respectful' way to the clubs they were leaving. We don't give a toss about that so why get so heated when it happens to us. 

It's a career for multi millionaires. They ain't like us!  

 
Scott Harris said:
You have James message at the end of last season which was clearly directed at Mount.

Enzo squaring up to him and then tapping the badge at the end of the game.

Gilchrist posting an image of him standing next to Mount saying "we fight till the end"

Mount has an incredible PR machine to make him seem like he was the one treated poorly, but not all of us are fooled. He will fit alongside other PR machines at United like Rashford and Maguire.
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Matt Law is the one pulling the strings. Definitely on the payroll. The amount of articles resurfacing of him being forced out is no coincidence. 

United fans are saying the biggest discrepancy was image rights. United were always going to give it to him.  He demanded something absurd. Lad thinks he’s Beckham. 
 

Look at this twat getting community noted again. 
 


 
Scott Harris said:
It's not similar though. Mount wanted to leave, Gallagher doesn't want to leave.

I don't understand why some fans insist that none of this was Mount's fault. He wanted to leave.

Then you have his weak forced goodbye message, which was just cringe worthy in all honesty. Put his and Azpi's goodbye message side by side and you will see who actually spoke from the heart. Only one of them was reading from a script. Then you had the whole video with him and his dad in the United changing room. 

He was never going to get applause. He is viewed by a lot of fans as fake and jumped ship at the first sign of trouble.
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That's not true:

There was surprise when, instead of meeting with the co-owners to resume negotiations, Tony Mount found himself asked to attend one with Paul Winstanley, Chelsea’s new co-sporting director, instead. That felt like a return to square one — a suspicion which became reality when the family discovered the contract offer which had been so close to being agreed upon had now been withdrawn.

https://theathletic.com/4652252/2023/07/05/mason-mount-and-chelsea-how-the-perfect-marriage-fizzled-out-in-divorce/

He was about to sign an extension and the club withdrew the agreed upon offer like some slimy snakes. And you know why we did that? Because by looking at the 22/23 financial numbers its clear we would have failed to comply with FFP/PSR and been deducted points if we didn't sell Mount so its clear what happened.

Did he down tools after he had been betrayed more or less? Probably did but who wouldn't.
Our handling of Mason very likely cost us Declan Rice too and I assume all of us would have liked to have him in our team.

 
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Yeah it’s hard to see that the club didn’t value getting £60m for him. Truth is that it was probably abit of both..

 
Scott Harris said:
Knew he would get booed. 

We are usually good with our former players, but Mount leaving in the manner that he did has done him no favours. Fans aren't in the best of moods either.

James gave him a quiet applause though
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I can't hate Mount, worked his socks off for us when others seemed to give up.

He seemed set to go once it was clear he was never going to get close to his peers in salary as the club was adopting a new salary structure.

Of course he has to prove he is now faithful to United it is part of moving to a bigger club.

I just remember the young kid getting crucial goals for us when others were not at the races.

 
If the ownership didn't spend recklessly when they came in then I am pretty positive Mount would be in a Chelsea shirt right now.

Conor is very likely going to be next.

 
Sconnie Blue said:
They literally offered him a 200kpw extension. 
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The twelve month extension with a release clause? Blatant attempt at a money grab from the private equity lads.

Even if he was offered a proper contract at 200k he had every right to reject it as 2xPOTS when James and Sterling very recently had signed on for far more. Try to extend Lampard back in 2008 for less than Ashley Cole and he'd reject too.

He was about to sign as The Athletic reported and then club withdrew the offer in a slimy way because they realized they spend too much money on new players so Mount had to be sold to rescue the economics. Pretty straight forward.

 
OriginalS said:
The twelve month extension with a release clause? Blatant attempt at a money grab from the private equity lads.

Even if he was offered a proper contract at 200k he had every right to reject it as 2xPOTS when James and Sterling very recently had signed on for far more. Try to extend Lampard back in 2008 for less than Ashley Cole and he'd reject too.

He was about to sign as The Athletic reported and then club withdrew the offer in a slimy way because they realized they spend too much money on new players so Mount had to be sold to rescue the economics. Pretty straight forward.
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So two wrongs make a right then? Sterling got a ridiculous contract, let’s add Mount to it?
James is the best RB on the planet when fit so they clearly see the value in him. He’s had his surgery finally and given Kante’s injury free season after his surgery, it only gives optimism James will also see the same benefit. 
 

The Athletic went into specific detail that Mount was offered a year extension, 200kpw, to create time to negotiate a longer deal. There was zero mention of a release clause. If you believe Mount was deserving a 250-300Kpw deal with hefty image rights despite being in poor form the past 18 months, that’s on you. 

 
Sconnie Blue said:
So two wrongs make a right then? Sterling got a ridiculous contract, let’s add Mount to it?
James is the best RB on the planet when fit so they clearly see the value in him. He’s had his surgery finally and given Kante’s injury free season after his surgery, it only gives optimism James will also see the same benefit. 
 

The Athletic went into specific detail that Mount was offered a year extension, 200kpw, to create time to negotiate a longer deal. There was zero mention of a release clause. If you believe Mount was deserving a 250-300Kpw deal with hefty image rights despite being in poor form the past 18 months, that’s on you. 
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Hard to sign the agreed upon contract when said contract is withdrawn before they had the chance to sign the dotted line.

That sums the entire contract negotiations up. We acted in bad faith and the clubs at fault.

 
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