Manchester United are serious about the arrival of Mason Mount. According to The Times, talks with Chelsea have started from the top of United about a switch from the 24-year-old midfielder.
Manchester United starts negotiations with Chelsea about Mount
Erik ten Hag sees the Englishman, who played as a mercenary at Vitesse in the 2017/18 season, as a welcome reinforcement for his midfield. The 36-time international could play as number 10 and number 8 and will probably have to compete for that last position with Christian Eriksen, if it comes to a transfer. According to sources, United thinks it has good credentials to bring in Mount.
Chelsea has a difficult negotiating position, because a transfer-free departure from Mount is imminent. His contract expires in mid-2024 and he has already rejected three contract extension proposals. New Chelsea owner Todd Boehly wants to prevent any more valuable players from leaving Stamford Bridge on a free transfer at all costs. To his great frustration, the American saw Antonio Rüdiger leave for Real Madrid on a free transfer and Andreas Christensen go to Barcelona on a free transfer last summer.
Mount won the Champions League with Chelsea and was named Player of the Year twice at the club where he trained. Yet he never became a big earner with The Blues, who finished twelfth in the Premier League this season very disappointingly. Mount signed his contract in July 2019, which expires next year.
Newcastle wants to enter the Champions League with a Leipzig star as an asset
Staying in England, Dominik Szoboszlai is the main transfer target for Newcastle United. According to Germany’s Sky Sports, the attacking midfielder from RB Leipzig has been informed of the concrete interest.
Szoboszlai recently announced through the media that he is certainly open to a departure from Leipzig this summer. “If I can make a move to one of the biggest clubs in Europe now, should I turn it down? I’m not like that,” said the 22-year-old Hungarian. The Leipzig leadership would not have been happy with those statements.
The number three in the Bundesliga refers interested clubs to the escape clause in Szoboszlai’s contract. The seasoning can be taken over for a fixed lump sum of seventy million euros. For Newcastle, that transfer fee would equal the transfer record. Alexander Isak came over from Real Sociedad for seventy million euros in August last year. This has been the biggest acquisition since the takeover of Newcastle by a Saudi investment company.
Partly thanks to the large investments, The Magpies have finished in the top four of the Premier League. For the first time since 2003. With Szoboszlai, Newcastle hopes to take the next step towards attacking the English top. The guarantee of Champions League football next season. Makes St. James’ Park an extra attractive destination for coveted players like Szoboszlai.
