Huge Chelsea contract offer Mason Mount turned down to join Man Utd revealed as £60m transfer fee agreed

 

MASON MOUNT rejected a lucrative contract offer from Chelsea before a £60million fee was agreed for him to join Manchester United. The England international, 24, looks set to make the switch to Old Trafford after the Blues accepted a bid worth £55m plus £5m in add-ons.

It comes as Mount prepared to enter the final 12 months of his contract at Stamford Bridge. But Chelsea had been keen to keep him by tying him down to a longer-term deal. According to The Guardian , they were prepared to bump Mount's £75,000-a-week salary up to £200,000. But he turned this offer down and is now set to leave his boyhood club.

And it has worked out well as Mount is expected to earn £250,000-a-week with the Red Devils - with Man Utd offering him a five-year deal with the option of a further 12 months. It comes after United saw THREE bids rejected by Chelsea . The Blues were holding out for "north of £60m" while United would only offer £55m — and threatened to walk away. But a meeting on Wednesday led to a breakthrough as both sides compromised.

Mount is set to depart having contributed 33 goals and 37 assists in 195 games for Chelsea. And he will become the latest in a long line of players leaving Stamford Bridge this summer.

 Mount will join Kalidou Koulibaly , Edouard Mendy, Mateo Kovacic , Kai Havertz and N'Golo Kante in walking out of the exit door. Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Hakim Ziyech, Callum Hudson- Odoi, Cesar Azpilicueta and Christian Pulisic are also being linked with moves away.