Ruben Amorim reveals extent of Luke Shaw injury setback as Man Utd star suffers blow

Luke Shaw has lone made 3 appearances for Manchester United this play and picked up different wounded successful December, ruling him retired of overmuch of Ruben Amorim's tenure

Ruben Amorim admits that Manchester United request to beryllium 'careful' with Luke Shaw aft helium suffered a 'small' wounded setback.

Shaw, 29, made 3 consecutive substitute appearances successful Amorim's archetypal 3 games arsenic manager earlier getting injured again successful December. The England planetary returned to first-team grooming past week but it was reported connected Wednesday that Shaw would miss Friday's FA Cup fourth-round clash astatine location to Leicester.

Speaking up of the cupful tie, Amorim confirmed that Shaw had so suffered a setback successful his recovery, revealing: "Luke has 1 tiny contented successful a antithetic country from the past injury, truthful we effort to beryllium cautious with Luke."

The Red Devils brag besides commented connected the quality that Lisandro Martinez had suffered a cruciate ligament wounded during Sunday's dismal 2-0 loss astatine location to Crystal Palace. "Licha is simply a hard situation, he's going to beryllium retired for a while," Amorim explained. "We don't cognize the grade of the injury, but it's going to instrumentality time."

United signed a caller left-back successful the winter transportation window to vie with Shaw, who's lone played 8 times for nine and state successful the past 12 months. Patrick Dorgu, 20, arrived from Lecce successful a £25million deal, having impressed for the Italian broadside arsenic good arsenic the Danish nationalist team.

Arsenal imaginable Ayden Heaven was besides brought successful and Amorim has suggested that the 18-year-old centre-back could play a relation successful the first-team. Quizzed connected whether they could marque their debuts against Leicester, Amorim replied: "We'll see, you guys person to hold until time but they are acceptable to play and are 2 much solutions successful this moment."

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Despite calls to motion a guardant pursuing the departures of Marcus Rashford and Antony, the 2 defenders were United's lone additions of the transportation window, with the Red Devils wary of breaching the Premier League's Profit and Sustainability Rules aft years of overspending and selling players connected unfavourable terms. "What I consciousness is that the nine is taking its time," Amorim said.

"We cognize the urgency of the infinitesimal of the team, everybody present don't privation to marque the aforesaid mistakes of the past, successful the summertime we volition see. But similar I said, we are being truly cautious with transfers due to the fact that we did immoderate mistakes successful the past."

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