Mason Mount in His Gap Year in the Netherlands

Mason Mount will be coming in to take Erickson's place and that team, and then you've got a very good creative player to call upon from the bench. There is some symmetry between those two players and that's what United need really. The problem they had with Erickson in games last season was that he would come off in the second half and it would completely compromise their fluidity. It happened so often last season. They played on Thursday last month at the start of May and then they had West Ham on Thursday, and he didn't start at Brighton. That was seen as a surprise and they certainly missed him - but you also knew Tenhag thought, well, I