Double blow for Manchester united as two key players ruled out for months with serious injuries

Manchester,

Thursday, 1 August, 2024 

McCreadie Andias 

Manchester united's camp has been hit by double trouble as two of their Key players are expected to miss the opening matches of the new Premier league season with serious sustained injuries. 

The club confirmed that new signing Leny Yoro is out for three months with a foot injury while foward, Rasmus Højlund has also suffered an injury and he will be officially out for six weeks with hamstring problem. 

Both players were injured during United's 2-1 defeat to Arsenal in Los Angeles in the first game of their U.S. tour.

Yoro, according to a source, will stay with the squad for the remainder of the tour and undergo further tests after returning to Manchester on Sunday.

Sources reveal that the 18-year-old, a £52 million summer signing from Lille, has suffered a fractured metatarsal and could require an operation. 

Both Yoro and Højlund will miss the Community Shield against Manchester City at Wembley on Aug. 10 and the start of the Premier League season.

United are expected to persue new signings for Defence with Bayern Munich's Mazraoui and Everton's Jardon Branthwaite seeming like potential replacements while new Dutch Signing Zirkzee is expected to assume the attacking role alongside Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho. 

United kick off their league campaign against Fulham at Old Trafford on Aug. 16.