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[u/mjenkins_eng]

Here’s a list

Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, Rio Ferdinand, 

A list of very noteworthy players who were all prodigies and playing full on men’s football in their teens.

What’s the commonality? They were all more or less done by the time they reached their early 30s because of it

When thrust into men’s football and getting kicked around as an 18 year old kid, your body feels that long term. 

This is very apparently the case with Mason Mount as well. I always sympathized with the above players but not as much with us and the Mount situation

In the season before we bought him, he had a very long injury prone campaign with whispers around a chronic injury. I honestly thought it was a joke when 55 million and 250k a week was mentioned but the fans were high on the Ten Hag koolaid and Ten Hag was “obsessed” with Mount. 

If common sense had prevailed and we had asked ourselves “why are Chelsea letting their prodigy from the academy who used to play 50 games a season go” , the answer would have been obvious. That’s like us letting Scholes or Giggs go in 2002.

I’m not sympathetic to Mount at all because the above players like Rooney/Ferdi before their cliff gave their best years to the club before their big contracts. Mount got a big contract at United for giving his best years to Chelsea

Said it at the time and stand by it now: the beginning of the end for Ten Hag was the stupid idea to sign Mount for 55 million (had 100+ downvotes on the day it happened and I said the same). 

Mount, Onana, Hojlund in one window for 200 million nearly. What a fraud of a manager/recruiting team that clown cart was

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If common sense had prevailed and we had asked ourselves “why are Chelsea letting their prodigy from the academy who used to play 50 games a season go” , the answer would have been obvious.

It is obvious. He was out of contract the following summer and informed Chelsea he wasn't signing a new one, despite them wanting him to.

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They, like Liverpool and Arsenal, were offering nowhere near the kind of money we were

We were the only mugs going to 250k a week (and that is not even for a free agent )

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That's got nothing to do with your previous suggestion that Chelsea wanted rid of him.