Mason Mount is not sexy. But he is damned good. And only 23, which seems important but is usually forgotten.
Mason Mount is just 23 and it’s important to remember that when he is being judged as a senior player. His Chelsea managers value him even if you don’t.over the killing of Bambi/sacking of Frank Lampard. He need to have worried because Tuchel valued Mount so greatly that only Antonio Rudiger and Edouard Mendy played more Chelsea minutes under his management.
Mount was Chelsea’s Player of the Year in both seasons of Tuchel’s reign, with the German’s only full Premier League campaign featuring 11 goals and ten assists from the diamond in the pile of poo that was the Blues’ attacking options. He has been such an integral part of Chelsea’s first team over the last three years that it’s easy to forget that he is barely a year older than Conor Gallagher. His experience relative to his age is immense and yet he is often judged on the former as a senior player who should never suffer blips of form. Instead of understanding noises about the inconsistency of young players, Mount is barracked as the average player who has been ‘found out’.
By the second Champions League clash, Tuchel had been replaced by Graham Potter and 22/23 Mount had been replaced by a version that looked more familiar, buoyed by a new manager and new ideas. He has only improved in the games that have followed, with the double assist of the win over Wolves being followed by a 45-minute blitz in Milan that saw his run earn a penalty and the opening goal, and his touch set up Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for Chelsea’s slick second.
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