Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has provided an update regarding the extent of Mason Mount’s injury, revealing that the midfielder is set to be out of action for “several weeks” after sustaining a hamstring injury at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
Mount, who has struggled to stay fit since his arrival at Old Trafford, managed just 14 Premier League appearances last season. This season, injuries have also limited the England international to occasional appearances for United with his latest setback coming in the Manchester derby victory.
In his latest press conference ahead of the Red Devils’ game against Bournemouth, Amorim revealed that Mount’s injury is serious and will keep him sidelined for the foreseeable future.
“Several weeks [he will be out for]. I don’t know the exact date but it is going to be long. That’s it. It is part of football and we continue.” the Portuguese said.
On why Mount has struggled to stay fit, he continued: “That is not my department. What I can do is to help him to teach him to play our game while he is recovering, to give him that time to think about different things.
“The worst part is that we don’t have time to train as you should do while recovering with a lot of injuries – as you should do. We are always travelling, we don’t train enough with the team together. It makes it hard to recover for the games.
“You can see with Vic (Lindelof). Vic was recovering, he trained really well, we pushed him, we make all the screens that we should do before we come to a game, but the game is a completely different world. So they have to have more time to train. It’s really hard, we try to manage that with rotation but even with rotation it’s really hard to have all the squad.
“With Mason, we are going to help him. It’s really hard for the player to be out for so long. He’s trying really hard. If they try really hard we will help him to the end.”
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