Mason Mount is looking forward to prolonging his career by signing a new contract at Stamford Bridge ahead of a big tilt at winning the premier league title
Mount admits he is preparing for talks with Boehly over the coming months as he looks to commit his long-term future to the club he joined as a boy.
Despite finishing third in the premier league and missing out on domestic silverware, Mount is targeting more honours for the club and country.
Mount told Sky Sports that he's happy at the club and that he has two years left on his contract. I have been here for six years and I think the talks will start over the next few months.
It's special every year. I didn't get to go away on a pre-season tour last year, so to come here has been great. To get back training and working hard is what we want to do and the boys have been buzzing. There's a big season coming up.
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I need to step up and be a leader because I feel like I am getting older and more experienced. I can speak to the younger boys because I've been there and done that and I know how hard it can be when you're on a pre-season tour.
You don't need to do anything special, just play your game and you'll impress the manager, that's what I was telling them. I would try to make them feel welcome.
Winning the title is the goal, that's always my goal, you want to win the premier league It's very difficult because you have to be consistent. We were in a good position at the beginning of the season, but then we lost a few games and dropped a few points, and we ended up third. It's something we need to change now that we've experienced it before.
With less than a month to go before the start of the new season, it's great to know that he wants to stay at the club.
Mount's stock has risen since he agreed his current deal three years ago, but he knows improvements will be required in every department if they are to claw back the 19-point gap to Manchester City.
Winning the Club World Cup and European Super Cup last term meant it wasn't an entirely pointless first full season under Thomas Tuchel, but the Mount is hungry for more with England also preparing for the World Cup which starts in November.
He says you want to do more. "You want to win more so for me personally setting higher goals and us a team we won two good trophies last season and it could have been four," he said. We want to keep moving forward. We won things with that winning mentality. We want to be successful next season.
You need to be on it all the time. It takes 100 points to win the league and it's very close going into the final game. The best league in the world is very difficult. You want to have battles with the teams that are up there. The games against those teams are very important. We need to be prepared for that.
I think last season was my best because Mount was top for goal involvements. Before the season started, I wanted to make myself a threat going forward, so I focused on that before the season began.
"I think it’s just natural, as soon as you get older you start filling out a bit more. Over the last three years, I've gained a bit more structure. It's something I work on. "You want to be someone that's able to put yourself about a bit as a midfielder but people are picking up on it. It's not done yet, it's a long journey and it's only the start of it.
"You want to work at that side but you've still got to be sharp and agile, and doing the stuff I do, pressing and running forward. You've got to be able to do that as well, so it comes hand in hand."
The season before that I felt I excelled off the ball, working hard and being someone within the team winning balls back and pressing from the front, it was a focus of mine to really up the numbers and be up there goals and assists. I reached my goals before the season started. It was a good year for me.
It could have been better, but I was happy with my performance and look forward to the next one.
The takeover of the club by the Boehly-led group was completed in May.
The new owners are committed to investing in key areas that will extend and enhanceChelsea's competitiveness, including the redevelopment of Stamford Bridge, further investment in the academy, the women's team and Kingsmeadow stadium.
Mount said that the new owner has already spoken to the players about what he wants from them.
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Since it was announced, he has been very close to him. Most of the consortium were at the training ground and around the boys and the coaching staff, which is great to see and be very close to. It's only the beginning, but we're excited about what the future holds.
It's a new start, you have to get used to it very quickly, they've been brilliant so far, come in and filled us with a lot of confidence. When you know that everything is under control away from the pitch, it fills you with confidence.
It's exciting because there's a lot going on with each club. You don't know which team is going to win until the first game and which team is going to lose until the last game. We're excited and we focus on what's going on here within the club and doing what we can on the football pitch to be ready for that first game.
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The players heading to the World Cup will have a new challenge this time around because the new season stops after 16 rounds of league play.
Mount is ready to deal with it.
It will be strange to stop around Christmas time. We won't know how it goes. The World Cup is going to bring a lot of excitement to us. After what happened at the Euros, there's a lot of buzz in the country. I think it's going to be great. It will be a long season for us as players.
You need to get off to a good start. You want to play well as a team and feel good about it. Hopefully, that's true. It's going to be exciting because we have a few England boys and an American boy in this group. We need to stick together as a team.
Sky Sports will show the first two games of the season, including a match between Spurs and the Blues at home.
The Blues face a reunion with Frank Lampard at Goodison Park on August 6, followed by a trip to Spurs on the same day.
On September 17th, Manchester United will be in West London, and on October 22nd and November 5th, they will be there.
They play their final game before the World Cup on Boxing Day against Bournemouth at St James' Park.
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