The Blues face losing their star academy graduate over the summer if new contract talks don't resolve over the future
Young English players running down their contracts and making clubs sweat. There's a precedent for that.
The Blues haven't truly been forced into many sales over the years recently either. Eden Hazard is the biggest one but there were seven years of high quality service for him and a massive transfer fee. His contract was coming to its end and Real Madrid offered a hefty sum.
It's a brutal situation. It's not the first time that one of England's stars have gotten themselves into this position though. Bukayo Saka has made Arsenal sweat over his deal with interest in the 21-year-old coming from across the word's biggest and best clubs. Phil Foden took longer to commit himself to Manchester City too. The best case is Marcus Rashford, though.
Whereas Saka has been performing as one of the best forwards in the league for over a season, Rashford struggled through last term registering his lowest output, even lower than his debut half-a-season as a teenager. The 25-year-old was doubted last season at Old Trafford, moved around, shunted in and out and struggling with injuries and burnout.
Mount and Rashford are two players at 24 that have been to such high levels and also relied upon by their clubs, suffering a run of bad form and failing to come to an immediate agreement over what came next. Rashford was written off. When this happens it can be hard to see what the benefit of staiyng in that sort of environment can be. Things worked out well in the end.
To lose that sense of the club at a time where an unprecedented level of change has already happen would be a big blow. Boehly/Clearlake might be business people but they are also smart enough to see the value in keeping academy players, that much has been proven.
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