So annoyed with many people writing this and trying to exclude Mount from other attackers like he is any better.
Acceptable return you mean goals and assist but lets compare them since you slate Werner and praise Mount.
Both scored in 5 different games this season.
Mount 7g 6a (1pen, 3 corners)
Werner 6g 2a (zero set pieces)
And Mount played 833 more minutes. So it is 9 goal contributions vs 8 from open play with Timo playing less minutes almost equal to 10 games.
Lets add Ziyech because he is also heavily criticized player...
Also scored in 5 different games like them and added 4 assists (1 corner). So 8 goal contributions from open play but played 524 minutes less than Mount.
With Havertz, Pulisic, CHO it is not much difference...
Also Mount scored 6 of his 7 goals against teams from 15th to 20th place on table.
Norwich, WH and Watford are his only very good games this season. 3 in 30 appearances. Maybe 2 or 3 more solid games at top. If you think that is a acceptable return dont know what to say.
August, September, October, November he had just Norwich. Scored in 4 games in the row from 1st to 16th December which was just a purple patch and again nothing since in 10 different games.
This season is longer than 5 months and he delivered in 3 weeks in that period.
I am not trying to praise any of our attackers, would not focus on any of them but we have 7 and all 7 are shit not 6 of them!