Graham Potter describes Mason Mount’s Chelsea contract talks as ‘complicated’ CFC
The 24-year-old has 18 months remaining on his existing deal and made club officials aware of his intention to stay at Chelsea.
But there is a stumbling block over Mount’s wage demands with his representatives angling for the club to triple his £80,000-a-week wages to £240,000-a-week.Advertisement Chelsea are keen to extend their homegrown star’s stay but not at the salary demanded by Mount and his team.“I think it is always complicated, there is always negotiation,” Potter said in his pre-match press conference on Friday.
Potter will hope to resolve Chelsea’s patchy run of form when his side host bottom of the table Southampton on Saturday.in the Champions League on Wednesday and face a battle to qualify for the quarter-final.Champions League glory could be Chelsea’s best hope of securing a return to the competition as Potter’s side languish in tenth place – 10 points adrift of fourth-placed Newcastle.
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