Manchester United will again be without midfielder Mason Mount for “several weeks”, with new coach Ruben Amorim promising to help the Englishman recover.
Mount hobbled off after 14 minutes of United’s 2-1 win at rivals Manchester City last weekend and sat out Thursday’s away loss to Tottenham in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.
The former Chelsea player missed four months of last season with a calf injury and has only played 12 times this season due to several setbacks.
Asked how long Mount would be out until Sunday’s visit of Bournemouth, Amorim said: “Several weeks.
“I don’t know the exact date, but he will be out for a long time. In that sense it is part of football and we move on.
“What I can do is help Mase and teach him how to play our game when he recovers. Try to use this time to allow him to think about other things. The worst part about it, in my opinion, is that we don’t have the time to train the way we should when recovering from a lot of injuries.
“We’re constantly on the move, we have games, so we don’t have the whole team together at training and it’s really difficult to get the game back before they get to the game. It’s really hard for the player to be out for so long and he’s trying really hard.”
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Luke Shaw will also be unavailable for Bournemouth, but Marcus Rashford is in the running.
Amorim has once again left Rashford out of his squad for the midweek game against Tottenham in what was purely a matter of ‘selection’, but this came 48 hours after the United academy youngster said he was ‘ready for a new challenge.’ “.
Asked whether this omission, after Rashford was also missing in the win at Manchester City, was for disciplinary reasons, Amorim said: “No, it’s the same guys, the same. Totally the same.”
Asked if Rashford could face Bournemouth, Amorim said: “Yes, of course.”
