There has been some wild reports around regarding Chelsea in the last couple of weeks.
One story that wont go away is the Mason Mount contract saga, and it isn’t expected to be concluded either way anytime soon either.
Sources: Mateo Kovacic’s future!
Mount’s contract runs out in 2024 and he is attracting interest from other Premier League clubs. Talks have reportedly stopped for now, but are expected to reignite towards the end of the season.
Mount could well leave Stamford Bridge though, and there has been one surprising potential replacement for him reported this week, Andreas Pereira from Fulham.
This link hasn’t gone down too well with Chelsea fans, if it is even true of course.
But a report from ESPN recently claimed that Chelsea were eyeing a move for Fulham midfielder Pereira as a potential replacement for Mount.
Journalist Paul Brown believes it was be lunacy to try and replace Mount with Pereira.
In words given to Give Me Sport, Brown said: “I think you’d have to be a total lunatic to believe that Pereira is in anywhere near the class of Mount. He’s a good player, but he just doesn’t have the talent or potential that Mount does.”
