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Newly promoted Coventry City are eyeing an ambitious raid to sign Manchester United midfielder Mason Mount, according to the latest report.<\/p>\n
Under the careful watch of Frank Lampard, Coventry stormed to the Championship title this season, finishing 11 points clear of second-place Ipswich Town. With only seven losses from 46 games, the Sky Blues scored the most and conceded the fewest goals, playing a brilliant style of football.<\/p>\n
It marks the first time the Midlands club will play in the Premier League in 25 years, having been a founding member of the division in 1992-93.<\/p>\n
There will be a sense of optimism that they can follow the paths laid down by Sunderland and Leeds United, the first teams to come up and survive in England\u2019s top division in three years. The previous two campaigns \u2013 2023\/24 and 2024\/25 \u2013 saw all three promoted sides promptly relegated back down to the Championship at the first attempt.<\/p>\n
A key part of Sunderland and Leeds\u2019 success has been excellent recruitment, with the Black Cats signing 18 players and the Lilywhites 11. The strongest recruit for each club \u2013 Granit Xhaka for Sunderland, Dominic Calvert-Lewin for Leeds \u2013 ranks amongst the best pieces of business by any club in the Premier League last summer.<\/p>\n
If Coventry are to come up and stay up, their hopes will rest as much in the boardroom over the next three months as they do on the pitch next season.<\/p>\n
TEAMtalk<\/em> reveals Lampard\u2019s side are \u201cweighing up an ambitious move\u201d for Mount to help lead their survival charge. The pair previously worked together at Chelsea and Derby County, with Lampard describing the 27-year-old as a \u201ctop player\u201d while at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n The report states Manchester United are \u201copen to parting ways\u201d with Mount this summer as he has failed to live up to expectations after his \u00a355 million switch from west London in 2023.<\/p>\n Injuries have been his biggest obstacle, though a lack of decisive performances in these limited opportunities has further hindered his case to remain at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n The appointment of Michael Carrick has not helped either, as Ruben Amorim was a huge fan due to the Englishman\u2019s versatility in his 3-4-2-1 system. Carrick\u2019s use of a 4-2-3-1, which puts Mount in direct competition with Bruno Fernandes for the No.10 role, has rendered him an afterthought.<\/p>\n No one can fault Coventry\u2019s ambition for targeting a player with Mount\u2019s pedigree, but the United star\u2019s wage packet \u2013 worth as much as \u00a3250,000 a week \u2013 makes any deal unviable. TEAMtalk<\/em> claims there are \u201cfive Premier League sides who are monitoring his situation\u201d, though a loan move would be their preference.<\/p>\n There is a growing sense that a \u201ctemporary exit could allow Mount to regain match sharpness\u201d, with a loan move now \u201cviewed as the most probable outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n Mount is understood to be intent on remaining and fighting for his place under Carrick, however, further killing any prospect of an exit this summer. The midfielder has called Carrick \u201cbrilliant\u201d and put his weight behind the idea of the 44-year-old getting the job full time.<\/p>\n Featured image George Wood via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n The Peoples Person has been one of the world\u2019s leading Man United news sites for over a decade. Follow us on Bluesky: @peoplesperson.bsky.social<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 60 Newly promoted Coventry City are eyeing an ambitious raid to sign Manchester United midfielder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Final Thoughts<\/h5>\n