| Scott McTominay | Knee Injury | Jan 10: "Scott's going to be out for a while. We won't see him before the winter break, we'll see him hopefully in February." | 23/02/2020 | None | Ruled Out | Track |
| Nemanja Matic | Suspended | Sending Off - Two Yellow Cards | 17/02/2020 | None | Ruled Out | Track |
| Axel Tuanzebe | Thigh Injury | Hamstring Strain | 17/02/2020 | None | Ruled Out | Track |
| Paul Pogba | Ankle/Foot Injury | Jan 01: "He's injured now and he'll probably need an Op on his foot. We've had a consultant looking at him and the club has done the scans. He'll probably be out for three or four weeks." | 17/02/2020 | None | Ruled Out |
Its amazing isn't it? Never the bit part players that are out. Always our top guys.
We’ve lost plenty of squad players too. Dalot has missed months, Bailly hasn’t played all season, Fosu-Mensah hasn’t played all season, and I suspect Jones must have been injured a few times. Rojo been injured too.
Has Axel shown anything to suggest that he’s a better option than Lindelöf? Sounds like usual academy bias to me.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of Lingard, Pereira, Mata
No academy bias from me. He hasn’t but he’s been injured for the majority of the season. Played v Spurs at the start of the season and played well. I just don’t rate Lindelof.
I don't rate Lindelöf either, but he’s been better than Tuanzebe when he’s played this season, objectively speaking. I see a lot of premature placing of Tuanzebe as a player that he frankly hasn’t shown he is as of yet. He’s played games and been poor this season, as well as some decent ones. Lindelöf has had some outstanding games. I just think there’s always a rush to usher some of our senior players out of the team and just start kids who have shown little of the level required themselves. Same happens with Gomes, and to a lesser extent, Williams (I say to a lesser extent because he’s shown more than some of the other kids). I agree that some of these senior players are not always amazing, but the answer or better is not always in our academy. In fact, generally speaking, it rarely ever is.
Since when was Rashford’s projection ‘May or next season’?
Isn’t his injury a very serious one? Plus us trying to rush him back may potentially aggravate it. Similar to what we done with Pogba so he could play against Rochdale.
Yea, it is serious. So serious that it should keep him out for about 6 weeks. Not sure why you have changed that to 4 months.
Injuries are a fact of life in professional football.
Playing them when they had injuries didn't help either. The Rashford injury in particular isn't due to luck, it's poor squad management.
Yes. Good point about the defence.
He is more unlucky than many tbh. Yes they are a part of football, but it’s not possible to have a contingency for losing 4 or 5 of your best players for prolonged periods. It isn’t usually a problem that managers can’t legislate for that, because it usually never happens. And when it does, it affects you. City have lost less key players than us but it’s had a massive impact on them. We would not have won the treble in 99 if we had lost Keane, Scholes, Yorke and Becks for months. It’s just not the same team.
Yes. Its unfair to think he could change that in two transfer windows.
To be honest I've seen far worse injury crises at United. LVG's first season was horrendously bad for this and his second season was hampered by similar problems. It's also worth noting that Pogba, Rashford and Martial were all involved in our first 4 league games from which we got just 5 points so i'm not as confident that we'd be in a much better position with those players all starting.The Rashford and Pogba injuries were seemingly self inflicted by rushing them back.
| Player | Reason | Further Detail | Potential Return | Condition | Status | |
| Scott McTominay | Knee Injury | Jan 10: "Scott's going to be out for a while. We won't see him before the winter break, we'll see him hopefully in February." | 23/02/2020 | None | Ruled Out | TRACK |
| Nemanja Matic | Suspended | Sending Off - Two Yellow Cards | 17/02/2020 | None | Ruled Out | TRACK |
| Axel Tuanzebe | Thigh Injury | Hamstring Strain | 17/02/2020 | None | Ruled Out | TRACK |
| Paul Pogba | Ankle/Foot Injury | Jan 01: "He's injured now and he'll probably need an Op on his foot. We've had a consultant looking at him and the club has done the scans. He'll probably be out for three or four weeks." | 17/02/2020 | None | Ruled Out | TRACK |
| Timothy Fosu-Mensah | Other | Lacking Match Fitness | No Return Date | Currently Being Assessed | 50% | TRACK |
| Marcus Rashford | Lower Back Injury | Jan 19: "Yeah it's a [back] stress fracture. He'll be out for a while. He won't be back until after the mid-season break. Normally six weeks to heal, then he needs rehab after that." | No Return Date | None | Ruled Out |
I do understand that.
Yes he has but not replacing Herrera or Lukaku has left us too vulnerable I believe.
Yes 6 weeks to heal but that doesn’t mean straight away he’ll be ready to play all guns blazing mid March. He’ll need time for rehab etc. An injury like the one he got isn’t something you rush back unless you want him to aggravate it and he’s out for an even further extended period that’s done him more harm than good.
That wasn't what OP asked.
