Man United agree £60m cope with Chelsea for high goal Mount
The whole ultimate package deal features a £55m charge up entrance and an additional £5m price of add-ons, with the England midfielder poised to bear a medical at Old Trafford subsequent week.
Mount is predicted to signal a five-year contract at United, who had been focusing on the 24-year-old as their first main signing of the summer season window for Erik ten Hag.
The standard academy graduate had entered the ultimate 12 months of his present deal at Stamford Bridge and was unable to agree an extension regardless of talks with Blues co-owner Todd Boehly final season.
Mount had been eager to affix United and was ready to depart Chelsea on a free switch subsequent summer season if an settlement couldn’t be reached on this window.
United had beforehand seemed set to stroll away from talks having failed with two earlier bids for Mount and seen a 3rd take-it-or-leave it provide price £55m rebuffed final week.
Chelsea introduced a counter-proposal to their Premier League rivals of £58m plus £7m in add-ons, additionally providing to satisfy head to head to be able to clean out negotiations.
United moved to resurrect talks in latest days and have now managed to safe a extra beneficial deal, having been unwilling to satisfy Chelsea’s preliminary calls for for a participant with lower than a yr left on his contract. The Blues had initially needed to financial institution £70m for Mount.
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Chelsea had a deadline of June 30 to incorporate Mount’s sale of their monetary accounts for the 2022/23 season, becoming a member of a rising overhaul on the Bridge that has already seen the likes of Kalidou Koulibaly and Edouard Mendy depart, with N’Golo Kante, Hakim Ziyech and Ruben Loftus-Cheek all set to comply with, plus probably many extra together with Christian Pulisic.
Agreement reached: Mason Mount will bear a medical at Manchester United quickly
/ Evening StandardMount is the third Chelsea participant bought to a direct rival this week, following Mateo Kovacic’s £25m move to Manchester City and Kai Havertz’s £65m switch to Arsenal.
Chelsea are expected to move for Gabri Veiga after agreeing to promote Mount, with the Celta Vigo starlet possessing a launch clause in his present deal at Balaidos price simply £34.6m. They are additionally pushing laborious to signal Moises Caicedo from Brighton, a participant additionally linked with United, and have agreed offers for wingers Nicolas Jackson and Angelo Gabriel from Villarreal and Santos respectively.