Mason Mount's Misfortune

#07 said:
It's not even that I didn't rate him, it's that he was obviously an attacking midfielder and we had no need for another one of those. I'm not a qualified scout. How could I see it and John Murtough not? Bizarre.
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Yeah seemed totally unnecessary.
 
Robbie Boy said:
That's the issue; there's an element on here that'll try sugar coat literally everything. Absolutely no one rated Mount before we signed him, yet you had some trying to make out we signed a gem.
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Despite ten years of evidence to the contrary, there's a contingent here who think that every decision the club makes is part of some master plan and that those who disagree are too stupid to see it.
 
Robbie Boy said:
That's the issue; there's an element on here that'll try sugar coat literally everything. Absolutely no one rated Mount before we signed him, yet you had some trying to make out we signed a gem.
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That’s the same element that blindly believes any crap that comes out from any managers. They don’t even have to be successful, just being manager is enough.
 
Big Ben Foster said:
Despite ten years of evidence to the contrary, there's a contingent here who think that every decision the club makes is part of some master plan and that those who disagree are too stupid to see it.
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The amount of annoying tacticos making long posts and threads about how much he’d improve us was puke worthy. Even worse was all of the chelsea fans trying to tell me how great he was too
 
Ole'sgunnarwin said:
The Mount thread before we signed is fascinating. Was slated at Chelsea by everyone on here. Then he signs and it's oh he works hard, system player, all this nonsense. The club and supporters get a hard on about shiny new toys regardless of the quality
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Id like to be on record as one of the annoying few thatwas moaning about it the entire time we chased him :lol:
 
Rado_N said:
Are we at the stage now where we pretend the manager never wanted him?
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Every bad signing is a club signing and every good signing is the manager’s signing. Has been the case for the entire post SAF era according to our fanbase
 
Yagami said:
I genuinely don't know what players some were watching when so many on here were confidently saying Mount was better. Same when people said Donny and Sancho were better signings than Grealish would be.
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Blind hope and optimism I suppose. Speaking up about it when he signed just raised criticism about football knowledge and credited those as naysayers. Hard to argue against people who actually watch a lot more football but still can’t tell the good from the bad.
 
Cloud7 said:
Every bad signing is a club signing and every good signing is the manager’s signing. Has been the case for the entire post SAF era according to our fanbase
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Well, Antony is clearly the manager's signing. I think Mount was the affordable available option forwarded by Murtough and his team.
 
The ironic thing is if the club had refused ETH's desire for him and signed some actual midfielder (anyone, even a shit one), a section of our fanbase would have labeled it "not backing the manager".

Backing the manager around here means giving him everything he wants and not challenging him even when he's making an obviously stupid decision.
 
The Mitcher said:
Nonsense, they don't even play the same position. Casemiro was the option they went for after FDJ. Can his fanboys stop with the lies?
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Actually, Mount has constantly been played out of position. He plays the same position as Bruno, so that’s not happening.
 
Based Adnan said:
Exactly, the repeated news all summer was Mount was ETH's first choice midfield signing
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Where do you think this repeated news comes from?

Ten Hag has persisted with every other signing no matter how they played and he has seemingly given up on Mount after 5 games.
 
Every players are managers signing! until proven otherwise by the Manager himself.
 
What a pointless signing this has been.
 
I remember reading that ETH was obsessed with signing Mount as he saw him as pivotal to the system he wanted to play.

But once again there are posters on here that will do anything to deflect away from an underperforming manager.
 
Experiment was shortly lived, not good enough to play central midfield and is of better use closer to the goal. Doesn't compliment Bruno.
 
Don’t know what you guys were watching but mount was actually good today in terms of passing the ball forward. Much better than Bruno’s build up plays
 
Redstain said:
Experiment was shortly lived, not good enough to play central midfield and is of better use closer to the goal. Doesn't compliment Bruno.
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Saying how good Bruno is would be lovely, but not sure that's important?

Unless you meant complement? :drool: :lol:
 
Looked lively when he came on. Unfortunately, his position has been taken by McT because he looks like our only player who can score a goal.
 
Mount did pretty well when he came on. Probably the best he's looked for us, which admittedly isn't saying much. However, he played his part in adding a bit of intensity.
 
Fellaini, Mata, Bruno, VDB, Eriksen and now Mount. I never understood the post SAF's era obsession with no 10s. Then you take in account the fact that we keep overspending in salaries/fees, the ridiculous amount of injuries we suffer, managers who keep popping in asking for full control over transfers despite having previously worked with DOFs and suddenly you start asking. Had we really done a rebuild? Or are we just sticking to the same people, with the same mentality and when things go bad we simply put the blame on the manager?
 
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