Is Mason Mount NOW a Key Player for Manchester United?

Mount is a player I appreciate. What he does facilitates those around him. He'll play the pass before the assist, which often goes unnoticed since there are no stats for that. If he can stay fit he'll feature most weeks, either starting or off the bench.

Unfortunately Mason Mount will always be a signing to balance the books for homegrown players he was the best option and he will be here for some years but having English players is vital Pep bought a lot of English players like Sterling,John Stones, Kyle Walker , Kelvin Phillips, Grealish but over the years United have failed to maintain good English players like the class of 92 due to players going of the rails prematurely we’ve only got H5guire, Luk23haw , Mason Mount and Kobbie as potential starters

Maybe Mount is the 6 we've been looking for? High level of intelligence for the positioning, hard worker, good engine, able to put in a decent tackle and is classy with the ball at his feet

Hope he doesn't get injured

Re Joe's point about the fee. The issue isn't Mount for me, it's that the club handed that over to a direct rival for a player who had been injured all season, was in the last year of his contract and wasn't going to renew. Chelsea were in such a weak position and we happily handed over money of that magnitude which enabled them to sign Palmer (Ugarte and Neves the season after was another weird one).

Just wanted to say how much I appreciate Joe’s commentary. The most thoughtful of the lot on SP and appreciate that he doesn’t ‘generally’ dip down into the juvenile banter.

I hope Mason Mount will do well for us but honestly, he hasn't done much since joining us.

Mount was great in pre-season. Not sure why you were surprised against Arsenal. He's clearly one of our best players but sadly, because of the signings, won't get the game time he deserves.

Mason mount pairing with Bruno at central mid might just be the spark

His ship has sailed.

Given who we have bought in the summer it's hard to see him being anything other than a sub.

He can't play as a 6 or even an 8, either.

MOUNT HASN'T DONE ANYTHING FOR UNITED FOR US TO BE CLAMORING UP ABOUT HIM….

Mount is the engine for Amorim ball. Off-the ball runs make teammates better, presses, understands tactics

If so, we are doomed.

I think mount could do the same role as Bruno playing deep.

This Guy always speak as if they know more that the coach

Mount is a litmus test, he identifies the buffoons.
If you think he's shit you don't know football.

We really need to stop solely thinking of Mount as a 10 in Amorim’s 3-4-3 system, he should be tried in the midfield 2. I think he’d be good in there! What’s the most important quality of the two midfield players in a 3-4-3 system?? It’s energy/legs. The two in there have to cover the ground and do the work for 3 midfielders because they’re coming up against 3 midfielders most weeks cos most teams play either a 4-2-3-1 with the 10 dropping back in to midfield and making a 3 or 4-3-3. Casemiro doesn’t have the energy/legs to play that role, Ugarte does but is very poor on the ball, Collyer does but isn’t good enough yet, Bruno has the legs and the quality and I have a feeling Mount does too! Would be a bit of a worry defensively playing Bruno and Mount in there together but we do have an extra centre half who is effectively there instead of a defensive midfielder so could work!

if United lose away to Fulham – who did just draw with Brighton away from home. They will have lost just under 10% of the points they got last season.

This fixture was won by ETH with Zirkzee scoring on his debut 3 minutes from time after being subbed on for Mount last year

Mason is a really good footballer and I mean at actually playing and understanding the game. He reads the game so well, finds the right pass 9 times out if 10, execution is always 9 out of 10 too, decision making brilliant, people think he's a road runner but he's just an intelligent footballer, constantly moving opposition around the pitch creating space for our players to run into I just wish players were on his wavelength, cunha and mbeumeo are, dorgus getting there too. Another thing he does well is know where he's going to put the ball before he touches it, alot of our players from before would panic and be reactive, he's pro active. He pulls others into the game and controls the pace at times. No coincidence those two pre season games in America dorgu looked brilliant, mason was in front of him. He is the legs of Casemiro always dropping in and helping the midfield when Bruno is being bruno and vacating space, mason is also is one of the few attackers we have who knows how to lift his head up and see his striker. He's also very technical and creative, we see bursts of it where he pulls out something special and everyone is shocked, he has this in his locker but doesnt risk take as much as others because he probably knows this team is vulnerable. In all phases he's a competent good footballer, heavily underrated and forgotten because of those injuries. I wish him the best