Lewis Hall gives very positive update on his recovery – Great news | OneFootball

Lewis Hall has now given an update on his recovery.

Great news with the England international aiming to be back in time for the opening game of the 2025/26 season, plus involvement in some of the pre-season friendlies.

With so much happening since his injury at the end of February, it explains to a degree why some fans have forgotten just how brilliant Lewis Hall had been the first seven months of the 2024/25 season, up there with Sandro Tonali and Alexander Isak as one of United’s top performers.

This week Lewis Hall has been running outside, with the club saying that the expectation is that he will resume light ball work over the next few days.

Lewis Hall speaking to official club media – 25 June 2025:

“It’s just gradually progressing.

“I’ve just done 12 weeks non-weight bearing, which is obviously a long time, so to go from that to what I’m doing now is really good.

“With the amount of time I was hobbling about before, it takes a while to get used to again but I feel like I’m getting there now. It’s just about building slowly.

“As soon as I was back here, got the cast off and the stitches out, I was straight in the (altitude) chamber, sitting down and getting my heart rate up with just my arms – every evening, my arms were dead! – and then slowly started to integrate using my feet and my legs again.

“Because I’ve been doing a lot of aerobic stuff in the chamber, what I’m doing now isn’t going to cause me to fatigue. It’s just about slowly, gradually, increasing the load. Now, mentally, it feels good to be outside. Some of the other lads are out doing pre-season programmes and whatever so it’s good when I’m training and seeing them as well. It feels like I’m properly around it again.”

Wembley

“The first few weeks especially were incredibly hard, with the final and stuff like that.

“I played in all the games beforehand, and to miss that final; I was obviously buzzing for the club, for everyone, but to not be there to celebrate… it’s not so much that I wasn’t on the pitch, but to not be there to celebrate, that was probably the lowest point I’ve had in a long time. I was sat at home watching.

“That was difficult.”

Targeting the opening match of the season:

“With any injury, especially a long-term one, it’s so up in the air.

“Some people can come back quicker, some people take a bit longer. It all depends on how everything goes.

“You have good and bad days.

“Some days you feel really positive and then other days, on a matchday for example, I’ll be there watching and I feel like I’m missing out. There’s so many different things that come into it, so to be back outside and know that I can see the end of the road is such a good feeling.

“For me, my aim is to be fit and ready to go for the first game of the season, but to do that, I’d like to have a few pre-season games as well beforehand.”

Other players helping:

“And a lot of the lads have tried to make me feel as part of the team as possible.

“I’ll use Jam (Lascelles) as an example of that. Jam has been every day, even though he’s back training, asking me how I am, him and Sven (Botman).

“Those two in particular have been keeping in contact every day, asking how I’m feeling and showing interest in what I’m doing.

“Little things like that go a long way, don’t they?”

The right decision to have surgery?

“One hundred per cent.

“In terms of my career, how I’m anticipating it to go, the things that I want to achieve, to play in that final would have been a massive risk which ultimately could have impacted this season a lot as well.

“It was definitely the right decision in terms of security and making sure that I come back fit and firing for this season.

“As gutted as I was – and I think I underestimated how I would feel – it was definitely the right decision.

“There are so many things to look forward to, like Champions League, international stuff hopefully, and just the fact that I’ve not played in so long.

“It’s hard to explain – I felt so much support from people at the club, but in a sense you almost feel like sometimes you get forgotten about a little bit, even though I only missed 11 league games.

“But it makes me want to come back and sort of prove a point again, and show everyone what I can bring back to the team. I want to show people what I was doing before I was injured and, if anything, come back a better, stronger player for it.