’s former assistant Jody Morris has urged to reject any offers for this summer amid rumours of a £55m bid from .
United are , who is set to enter the final 12 months’ of his contract at Stamford Bridge.
Despite enduring an underwhelming season at Chelsea, Mount has also attracted interest from Arsenal and Liverpool.
Morris would find it ‘difficult to take’ if Mount joined one of Chelsea’s Premier League rivals and says his departure would be ‘sad’ for the club and the player.
Speaking on Sky Sports, Morris said: ‘If Mason Mount is allowed to leave a club like Chelsea then I think it’s a sad time for Chelsea and I imagine for Mason – I know how much he loves the club.
‘If we allow one of our best players and a home-grown player to go to a rival then that would pose questions.
‘I’d find it difficult to take if I saw Mason Mount walk out the door to a Premier League rival.’
Mount is considering his future at Chelsea – the club he first joined at the age of six – following a disastrous season for the west London club.
Chelsea have slipped to 12th in the Premier League this term and seen two permanent managers – Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter – sacked by owner Todd Boehly.
Despite the turmoil at Stamford Bridge, Morris believes the Chelsea squad need to ‘take responsibility’ for the team’s alarming drop-off.
He added: ‘With the previous managers, they were coming in and had JT, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole, Didier Drogba, Peter Cech, (Michael) Ballack, (Michael) Essien – not only world class players, but massive in the dressing room.
‘The group now is extremely young and extremely new. And maybe the experienced players who have been there for a while are coming to the end of their tenure at Chelsea.
‘The players need to take responsibility, not just for this period but the whole season. They’ve had three good managers and they’ve underperformed. The players need to take on board the lessons going forward.’
Ex-Chelsea defender Glen Johnson has also urged Boehly to retain Mount and says the Blues could live to regret selling him to a domestic rival.
‘He has struggled with injuries at times this season, but I don’t know how good he feels in himself,’ Johnson told . ‘If Mason feels good, he is going to perform.
‘If I am the incoming Chelsea manager, I would prefer to work with him and keep him than try to move him on.
‘No one would be surprised if he left to join a Premier League rival and started fantastically. I could see him getting into that Liverpool side and scoring more than ten goals a season, easily.
‘Anything Chelsea have done well for the best three or four years has come through Mount and he has been involved with.’
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