Michael Carrick was substituted off in the first half of United’s 7-1 win in Ireland this week. It was thought to be nothing serious but after having it scanned it has been revealed he will be missing for a fortnight.
“Michael hurt his ankle on Wednesday,” said Ferguson. “It is nothing serious but he will be out for a couple of weeks, so he will miss the start of the season.”
Darren Fletcher, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Darron Gisbon are therefore the only players we have available who can play in the centre of the park, with Owen Hargreaves, Anderson, and Carrick out injured.
Ferguson has also given updates on a couple of our other injuries.
“Rio is still well behind,” he continued. “It’ll be a few weeks before he is back amongst us. Anderson is making good progress and he will be training in two weeks.”
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Can’t Cleverley play in centre midfield? I’m sure I’ve seen him play there before.
Cleverley is staying at United this season btw, confirmed by the boss. http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={F9E570E6-407E-44BC-800F-4A3110258114}&newsid=6651192
I wouldn’t mind seeing Park given a go in centre-mid, think his energy could be very useful there, would compensate for Giggs and scholesy’s lack of legs these days.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Park can do a very good job as part of a midfield 3, not sure about as one of two central midfielders if we play 4-4-2
Feel really sorry for carrick..
But SAF said we must keep Cleverley, this is interesting. Congrats boy!
In 3 wks time we can c anderson n carrick fighting for there places.
WHO DARES WINS THE RACE!!!
Good news about Cleverly. If he stays we won’t be signing anyone though.
Cleverley and Fletch to start against newcastle?
Ideal starting xi
VDS
Rafael–Evans–Vidic–O’shea/Fabio (taking evra not playing a game in so long into consideration)
Nani–Scholes–Fletcher–Cleverley
Rooney– Hernandez
Valencia to come on at the 60 mark to run riot on the tired full backs and owen for rooney
cleverly would still have gone out on loan if carrick hadnt got injured. its more of a judgement on the squad rather the cleverlys ability. i dont think he’ll feature much unless theres more injurys.
Good news I guess since ankle injuries can be a pain. Should be back for the Fulham game, although Carrick has a different problem on his hands. He hasn’t played a lot of games since April. He hasn’t played for 90 minutes since the Bayern game.
we still have gibson and cleverley to cover central midfield. Not forgetting scholesy and fletch..
We can’t afford any more injuries that’s for sure and if Fletch gets injured, we’ll be in the brown stuff.
Everyone always forgets that Valencia often plays CM and does so well at International level
There’s still time, I think if we get into a crisis before the transfer close, the whole club will be looking into the pockets to find some fund to Fergie if it’s necessary :>
Wakey – Thats an option, but i think his best position is on the right wing, his pace scares the the hell out of defenders.
Off topic, but equally important…
Has anyone found out WTF those crop tops are all about?
I fear we’re the laughing stock of the PL/World/Universe
It’s not nice to kick a guy when he’s down, BUT…… Michael Carrick has gone backwards in the last 18 months and if his absence provides Tom Cleverley/Darron GIbson with the chance to show that they deserve his first-choice appearances then that’s a good thing – a really, really good thing in my book.
good riddance…definitely a waste of a starting spot the last couple of months…1 or 2 decent plays a season does not make a starter
@maverick99sback
It tracks how much a player runs around during training…and some other stuff.
As one of Carricks biggest fans let me just say..
ManCanChestHair
you have no idea what you’re talking about. Show some respect
Carrick has been awful for the last few seasons losing possession all the time and not turning up for big games. Him and that clown wearing number 9 would be best served getting in a taxi and fucking off back to north london.
Not a big problem, hopefully this gives Cleverley have a chance of a few games early on.
Shankhill – Classy lad. Thats it get behind the lads eh? He WAS poor last season but the last few? Harsh mate. Aside from Paul, on song the best passer of the ball we have. Just needs to get his confidence back somehow.
the guys who taint his 06/07,07-08, 08-09 contributions because of a poor 09/10 are being completely unfair and show their own ignorance, he was our best midfielder for long parts of those three seasons, and had many assists and a few crucial goals as well. BTW what is going on with possebon? he’s still playing reserves, whe gibson and cleverley are playing first team, hope he gets a chance…