Fabrizio Romano has rejected reports linking Manchester United midfielder Mason Mount with a move to Serie A leaders Inter Milan.
Mount, 26, has endured a miserable experience at Old Trafford since completing a £55 million switch from boyhood club Chelsea in 2023.
A series of unrelenting injuries and niggles has meant the English midfielder has been limited to only 32 appearances for the Red Devils across eighteen months of football, scoring and assisting just once in this time.
By comparison, Mount has missed 46 games through issues with his hamstring, calf and thigh.
The varied nature of these injuries offers a worrying insight into the physical problems the 26-year-old has developed since arriving in Manchester, despite both of his managers at United holding him in high regard.
Erik ten Hag brought Mount to Old Trafford and was keen for the versatile midfielder to help transform the Reds into a pressing machine, even if this vision ultimately proved unworkable.
Similarly, replacement Ruben Amorim revealed he “loved” the former Chelsea star after just one training session with his new squad, believing Mount could play in “two positions” in his 3-4-2-1 system.
However, reports this week had linked Mount, currently ruled out with injury, with a shock move to Italy. Inter Milan were reported to be considering an approach this summer to replace former Red Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
But due to the Englishman’s costly salary, the Serie A side would only be “willing to bring him to Milan only on loan with an option to buy and with significant help in paying his salary.” Mount is believed to earn in the region of £250,000 a week at Old Trafford.
Romano has refuted this story, however.
The Italian transfer guru contends “Inter are going in a completely different direction” to players with Mount’s profile: “[Inter] will invest in young players, not on players with crazy contracts.”
“Inter are not going for players like Mason Mount. [There is] nothing really serious there, nothing concrete to report,” Romano concludes.
Amorim is thought to maintain Mount’s work-rate and technical ability makes the 26-year-old a “perfect” fit in his system, with the Cobham graduate’s best season at Stamford Bridge coming under Thomas Tuchel in the exact same formation.
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Darragh Fox
Darragh is a writer for The Peoples Person who spent three years as a history graduate slowly realising football was by far the most interesting thing to write about.
