Ruben Amorim reveals extent of latest Mason Mount injury | OneFootball

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has confirmed Mason Mount's latest injury will rule him out of action for "several weeks".

The 25-year-old came off in the early stages of last weekend's Manchester Derby - a match United won 2-1 thanks to late goals from Bruno Fernandes and Amad Diallo - having been sidelined with a hamstring injury earlier in the season.

Mount's first season at Old Trafford was also plagued by injuries, restricting him to just 14 Premier League appearances, and he's been limited to just 243 minutes of action during 2024/25.

Speaking in his latest press conference, Amorim confirmed that the seventh injury lay-off of Mount's United career is a significant one that will sideline him for the foreseeable future.

"Several weeks [he will be out for]. I don't know the exact date but it is going to be long. That's it. It is part of football and we continue." Amorim said.

Probed on Mount's ongoing struggles to stay fit, he continued: "That is not my department. What I can do is to help him to teach him to play our game while he is recovering, to give him that time to think about different things.

Ruben Amorim is quickly finding out the scale of his task at Manchester United / Alex Livesey - Danehouse/GettyImages

"The worst part is that we don't have time to train as you should do while recovering with a lot of injuries - as you should do. We are always travelling, we don't train enough with the team together. It makes it hard to recover for the games.

"You can see with Vic (Lindelof). Vic was recovering, he trained really well, we pushed him, we make all the screens that we should do before we come to a game, but the game is a completely different world. So they have to have more time to train. It's really hard, we try to manage that with rotation but even with rotation it's really hard to have all the squad.

"With Mason, we are going to help him. It's really hard for the player to be out for so long. He's trying really hard. If they try really hard we will help him to the end."

United's schedule has been fairly relentless since the season began, owing to the club's participation in the Europa League and progress in the Carabao Cup, but the Red Devils are now out of the latter competition after losing a topsy-turvy quarter-final 4-3 to Tottenham Hotspur.

The defeat was Amorim's third in eight matches since succeeding Erik ten Hag, with the club still marooned in the bottom half of the Premier League table.