Mason Mount out ‘for weeks’

Manchester United will again be without midfielder Mason Mount for “several weeks”, with new manager Ruben Amorim promising to help the English man recover.

Mount limped off after 14 minutes of United’s 2-1 win over rivals Manchester City last weekend and welcomed Thursday’s defeat away to Tottenham in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.

The former Chelsea player missed four months of last season with a calf injury and has played just 12 times this term due to various setbacks.

Asked how long Mount would be out before 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 continue.

“What I can do is help Mase, teach him how to play our game when he is recovering. Try to use that time to think about different things, and then I think the worst part is that we don’t have time to train like we should do when you are recovering from many injuries.

“We are always traveling, we have games, so in training we don’t have the whole team together and this is really difficult to recreate the game before they get to the game. It’s really difficult for a player to be out for so long and he’s trying so hard.”

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Luke Shaw will also be unavailable for Bournemouth, but Marcus Rashford is in contention.

Amorim again left Rashford out of his matchday squad for the midweek clash with Tottenham, which was purely by “choice” but came 48 hours after the United academy product had declared himself “ready for a new challenge”.

Asked if this omission, after Rashford was also absent from the victory in Manchester City, was due to disciplinary reasons, Amorim said: “No, it’s the same thing guys, the same thing. Totally the same thing.”

Asked if Rashford could face Bournemouth, Amorim said: “Yes, of course.”