Mason Mount out ‘for weeks’

Manchester United will once again be without midfielder Mason Mount for “a few weeks”, with new manager Ruben Amorim vowing to help him recover.

Mount limped off after 14 minutes of United’s 2-1 win over rivals Manchester City last weekend and sat out Thursday’s Carabao Cup quarter-final defeat to Tottenham.

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

Asked how long Mount would be away from home ahead of Sunday’s visit to Bournemouth, Amorim said: “A few 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 to play our game when he’s recovering. Try to use that time to think about different things, and then I think the worst thing is that we don’t have time to train like we should do when you recover from many injuries.

“We are always traveling, we have games, so in training we don’t have the whole team together and it is very difficult to recreate the game before they get to the game. It is very difficult for the player to be out for so long and he is trying very 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 midday game with Tottenham, which was purely down to “selection” but came 48 hours after the United academy product had declared “ready for a new challenge”.

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

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