According to reports, the Liverpool board have ‘prepared and approved’ a big-money contract for Chelsea and England midfielder Mason Mount.
Liverpool are being heavily linked with midfielders ahead of this summer’s transfer window.
The club need at least two additions in that area of the pitch with their current crop of midfielders ageing or out of form. Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will need to be replaced as both players are out of contract in the summer.
Jude Bellingham has been heavily linked with Liverpool in recent months. But his value has gone through the roof in recent months amid his form for Borussia Dortmund and England at the World Cup in Qatar.
The Reds have subsequently dropped out of the race to sign Bellingham and they will instead use their funds to recruit other players.
Chelsea midfielder Mount is understood to be one of the players they are looking at. He may be available this summer as his current deal is due to expire in 2024.
Football Insider are reporting that ‘Liverpool’s board have approved Mount’s contract’ and the ‘box-office deal is edging closer’.
The ‘major development’ comes as Liverpool’s hierarchy have ‘prepared and approved’ the contract for the England international.
Liverpool are in ‘pole position’ to sign Mount but it is acknowledged that they ‘face strong competition from Premier League rivals’.
The report claims Mount ‘would like to stay at his boyhood club’ but a switch to Liverpool ‘is of major interest’ to him.
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A separate report from Ben Jacobs reveals Liverpool “believe” that they can sign Mount for “less” than £70m.
‘My understanding is Liverpool are now pretty confident on some other targets, and quite far along for this stage before the window opens, and that may also have informed why they chose to walk away from Bellingham now,’ Jacobs wrote for Caught Offside.
‘I fully expect Liverpool to get multiple deals done early in the summer window. It’s easy to focus on the Bellingham backlash, and I am sure many fans are disappointed, but I would judge Liverpool after the first 2-3 weeks of the window rather than now.
‘There is a real chance Mason Mount joins from Chelsea. Mount is no closer to signing a Chelsea extension and Liverpool see a chance to get him for a bargain.
‘Chelsea will still try, and their new manager could be a key…
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