Mason Mount looks increasingly likely to leave Chelsea this summer, with Todd Boehly apparently unwilling to budge on a contract that will take the England international straight into his pension.
Both Liverpool and Manchester United are thought to be courting the 24-year-old, who would become one of a select group of Big Six academy products to move to a Big Six rival. We’ve ranked those that have come before, from worst move to best.
8) Rohan Ricketts (Arsenal to Tottenham)
Y’know, Rohan, The Big R, ol’ soft bones, the Ricketts of Rohan. He made one League Cup appearance for Arsenal before moving to Tottenham on a free transfer in 2002, ahead of a further 17 years in professional football playing for Coventry, Wolves, QPR, Barnsley, Toronto, Diosgyor, Dacia, Wilhelmshaven, Shamrock Rovers, Exeter City, Dempo SC, Quevedo, PTT Rayong, Eastern, Abahani Ltd and Leatherhead FC.
How The Athletic haven’t done 20,000 words on the life and times of Rohan is beyond us.
7) Dominic Solanke (Chelsea to Liverpool)
Liverpool signed the man who would become their record Premier League goalscorer in the summer of 2017. No, it wasn’t Dominic Solanke, but it’s fun to imagine some thinking it would be him over Mohamed Salah if they were told at the time.
Solanke in fact scored one Premier League goal for Liverpool, on the last day of his only full season for the club, before being sold for a hefty profit to Bournemouth. Decent business, that.
6) Danny Welbeck (Manchester United to Arsenal)
Moved to the Emirates in 2014 after his best goalscoring season for Manchester United because he was “playing on the left wing a lot in a 4-4-2” and had very little hope of ousting either Robin van Persie or Wayne Rooney up top.
He scored a hat-trick in Arsenal’s second Champions League group game in his first season, at a time when he was also banging in goals for fun for England – he scored six in five European qualification matches.
But he never asserted himself as the main man at Arsenal – not that anyone really expected him to – and looks far more at home as the old hand of Brighton.
5) Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City to Chelsea)
Before Nottingham Forest fans get their knickers in a twist, Wright-Phillips was really their youth product, but makes this list as he graduated into the Manchester City first team from their under-18s.
After 11 Premier League goals under the stewardship of Kevin Keegan in 2004/05, Chelsea snapped Wright-Phillips up…
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