According to Paul Merson, Chelsea should be rational and keep Mason Mount, whom he believes is a player with a wow factor. The Arsenal legend made the remarks amid speculation that Arteta is interested in the Blues’ playmaker following Jorginho to the Emirates.
According to Football Insider, Liverpool and Arsenal have made approaches to Mount to join their projects. The 24-year-old has been linked with a transfer away from Stamford Bridge in recent months following the breakdown of contract negotiations. His contract will expire in June 2024, and with this, the Blues may opt to sell him rather than allow him to go on a free transfer next summer. Aside from his contract situation, he has failed to perform at the high level for which he is known and has had his game time limited. The word is that he is irritated by his limited game time.
“There are 30 players there — it’s ridiculous. For me, you’ve got to keep Mason Mount straight away,” said Merson on Sky Sports News in discussion of potential Chelsea exits.
“Mount looks like the one going [this summer], and you’re like, ‘wow’.
“All right, he hasn’t been great this season and hasn’t been playing a lot because of his injury, but he’s one of their standout players last season and one of England’s best players.”
🗣️ "You've got to keep Mason Mount." ☑️
Paul Merson can't believe Chelsea could be letting their midfielder leave this summer pic.twitter.com/Bscji22iQ8
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) April 29, 2023
Merson highly rates Mount; there is no doubt about that. If Arteta wants him, I don’t see why that deal isn’t prioritised in the summer. Odegaard doesn’t have a perfect backup; tell me why the Chelsea man can’t be that.
Daniel O
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We are no longer the European qualification chasing team we were the last four seasons.We are back to being contenders once again.These are some of the transfers Arsenal should look forward to completing if we are to challenge in both the league and champions league.
RW Moussa Diaby 55M
CM/CAM Mason Mount 50M
CDM/CM Ryan Gravenberch 40M
RB/RwB Ivan Fresneda 20M
CF Ivan Toney 60M **must signing imo
CB Walters should be given a chance he was fantastic during preseason
Keep Tierney use him as a fullback and invert the right back just to confuse the opponent.Zinchenko has been superb but is too predictable and has been targeted by opposition attackers.
Keep Patino around next season
Sell Balogun players starring for Ligue one can be quite tempting to bring to the premier league but we all know what happens.
Loan Lokonga to Burnley next season
Give Smith Rowe a chance we’ve seen what he can do.
Extend Jorginho’s contract
If all this is executed we’ll be talking of semifinals Champions league next season imo.
Please forward this to Edu and Arteta
we want world class players like rice,mount,vlahovic,fresneda, teiliemans,teo henandes get a back up winger like saint maximin or raphina.
With respect, non of the players you mention are World Class in my opinion, and certainly not Mount.
Abdul/GD sometimes I get such great laughs on this site. It can be very enjoyable at times.
Mason Mount has been wasting whatever talent he may or may not have and I think it’s a bad idea to purchase him (whether he is Rice’s mate or not).
Definitely not what I think world class is. Actually what does “world class” really mean ?
Yuri Tielemans, in my opinion, is not a top player and therefore not good enough for us either.. Oh dear, now what is the definition of a “top player”. Definitely not someone who looks knackered all the time like young Yuri. But Abdul we all have our opinions. Few years ago I liked Tielemans but just don’t think he’s good enough now. He’s gone backwards and doesn’t even get a regular game for Leicester anymore.
I don’t know enough about the others you mentioned so I’m willing to take your word that they are world class.
Add mount to our team and it wouldn’t mount to nothing more than we have imo. Let Merson keep talking, sure Mikel likes his advice. Toney would be an interesting signing but he has a pending suspension. To trouble City we needed a stronger fresher side. Martinelli froze against Walker, Xhaka wasn’t really fit and Jesus didn’t really show. Needed another ball winner in there to turnover possession as we can’t only rely on Partey who has been exceptional. We should of hooked Martinelli early for Reiss, Nketia for Jesus and Trossard for Saka or Martin