Liverpool’s curiosity in Chelsea’s Mason Mount has already been well-documented, although it stays unclear precisely as to the Reds’ possibilities of snapping up the Blues star within the subsequent window.
The Stamford Bridge-based outfit is known to nonetheless be holding talks with the England worldwide over extending his keep in London, although Fabrizio Romano’s replace on the matter hardly counsel the method is a easy one between each events.
“I’m conscious of some rumours that Mason Mount isn’t injured and is out of the Chelsea squad for different causes,” the Italian solely knowledgeable CaughtOffside.
“I’ve no affirmation on the hypothesis, however for certain the contract state of affairs isn’t serving to Mount proper now.
“It’s not a simple negotiation for the brand new contract. I’m conscious of Liverpool curiosity, but it surely’s too early to say the place Mason will find yourself.”
With a contract set to run out in 2024, Graham Potter’s aspect will quickly shortly run out of wiggle room in terms of maximising the potential worth they will extract from a sale.
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Which is the place we could look to come back in and capitalise on a participant that appears, on paper, to be a perfect match for Jurgen Klopp’s system.
Liverpool-linked Mason Mount making an look together with Firmino and Elliott 👀 #LFC https://t.co/uA063vKHwh
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Whether or not we’d be ready to fork out £64.9m (the participant’s present price, by Soccer Transfers‘ estimations) for the 24-year-old’s companies is one other matter solely.
One would possibly hope that our recruitment group could be able to negotiating a reduction (even when considering the potential rival tax that can inevitably be added on to the entire) given the participant’s present contract difficulties.
The ball’s in Chelsea’s court docket finally, although we’d extremely doubt handing the participant over to a different membership (maybe nonetheless a rival) totally free in 2024 will sit as a extra palatable answer in contrast in comparison with accepting a cut-price charge this summer time.
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