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Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has rejected claims Mason Mount was forced out of Chelsea, instead insisting the midfielder \u201cwanted to make the step\u201d to Old Trafford.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Mount entered the final 12 months of his contract with Chelsea last summer and, after a lengthy saga which has been reported in various ways, was ultimately sold to United in a deal worth an initial \u00a355m, with a further \u00a35m in add-ons.<\/p>\n
Recent reports claim Mount felt as though he was forced out of\u00a0Chelsea, who allegedly decided to cash in on him without ever really giving him the chance to stay, but Ten Hag has rejected that narrative.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think [Chelsea] wanted to sell him,\u201d Ten Hag told a press conference ahead of Mount\u2019s first return to Stamford Bridge on Thursday. \u201cThey wanted to keep him and they even offered him a new contract many times.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he wanted to make the step and we were, and we are, very pleased he is a\u00a0Man Utd\u00a0player because he has great abilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am sure he will contribute and he will become a big player for Man Utd.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Mount came through the Chelsea academy \/ Nigel French\/Allstar\/GettyImages<\/p>\n
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Mount\u2019s switch to United has not exactly gone to plan just yet, with injuries restricting the 25-year-old to just four Premier League starts so far.<\/p>\n
He netted his first goal for United in the recent\u00a01-1 draw with Brentford\u00a0which Ten Hag thought would be a winning strike before a 99th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so happy for him,\u201d Ten Hag told\u00a0MUTV<\/em>. \u201cBut so sorry for him also that it wasn\u2019t the winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe deserved that moment of glory, maybe it was such a small moment but, for a player who came in and suffered so many injuries and worked so hard all the time, and had so many setbacks, it was so frustrating.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then you think you\u2019ve scored a winner so we were disappointed when we conceded that goal that makes it 1-1. It makes a totally different mood, as you can imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has rejected claims Mason Mount was forced out of Chelsea, instead insisting the midfielder \u201cwanted to make the step\u201d to Old Trafford. Mount entered the final 12 months of his contract with Chelsea last summer and, after a lengthy saga which has been reported in various ways, was ultimately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n
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