Ten Hag key to Mount Man Utd switch, Pochettino needed him to remain

Fabrizio Romano has offered an unique replace on the Mason Mount to Manchester United switch, in addition to perception into Erik ten Hag’s essential position in bringing the Chelsea midfielder to Outdated Trafford.

Writing in his CaughtOffside column, Romano made it clear that Ten Hag was key to serving to Man Utd signal Mount, with the Dutch tactician clearly wanting to work with the England worldwide as he sees him as an ideal match for his system and ways.

It appears Mauricio Pochettino was additionally eager to maintain Mount at Chelsea, in keeping with Romano, although it appears the arrival of the Argentine as supervisor got here too late to essentially affect the participant’s resolution, as his future might have been kind of determined a number of months in the past.

“Mason Mount’s switch to Manchester United is nearly full, it’s simply matter of time for the announcement,” Romano stated.

“His medical was good from what I heard, so we anticipate the membership now. Erik ten Hag has been essential to this deal, however total I’d say this was the right feeling: Mount needed United and Ten Hag needed a participant with that form of want, aside of his nice expertise after all. So, it’s an ideal match. Ten Hag is bound that he’s the right midfielder for his tactical thought.

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“It’s additionally value saying that Mauricio Pochettino needed Mount to remain at Chelsea, however he wasn’t in a straightforward place – the issue is what occurred approach earlier than: September, October, November… till February.”

All in all, this seems to be an enormous blow for Chelsea as they lose a homegrown expertise who’s largely carried out very nicely for the membership, and so they now danger him having fun with his peak years for one in every of their greatest rivals.

United will hope they get the Mount that seemed like such a high performer earlier than the dip in type he suffered final season, although in equity he was removed from the one CFC participant to look nicely beneath what they’re often able to in what was a fairly dismal marketing campaign for everybody at Stamford Bridge.