MASON MOUNT rejected a lucrative contract offer from Chelsea before a £60million fee was agreed for him to join Manchester United.

The England international, 24, looks set to make the switch to Old Trafford after the Blues accepted a bid worth £55m plus £5m in add-ons.

It comes as Mount prepared to enter the final 12 months of his contract at Stamford Bridge.

But Chelsea had been keen to keep him by tying him down to a longer-term deal.

According to The Guardian, they were prepared to bump Mount's £75,000-a-week salary up to £200,000.

But he turned this offer down and is now set to leave his boyhood club.

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And it has worked out well as Mount is expected to earn £250,000-a-week with the Red Devils – with Man Utd offering him a five-year deal with the option of a further 12 months.

It comes after United saw THREE bids rejected by Chelsea.

The Blues were holding out for "north of £60m" while United would only offer £55m — and threatened to walk away.

But a meeting on Wednesday led to a breakthrough as both sides compromised.

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Mount is set to depart having contributed 33 goals and 37 assists in 195 games for Chelsea.

And he will become the latest in a long line of players leaving Stamford Bridge this summer.

Mount will join Kalidou Koulibaly, Edouard Mendy, Mateo Kovacic, Kai Havertz and N'Golo Kante in walking out of the exit door.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Hakim Ziyech, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Cesar Azpilicueta and Christian Pulisic are also being linked with moves away.

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