“Mason is getting closer really,” explained Carrick. “He\u2019s on the grass and he\u2019s getting closer, he\u2019s looking to train and be in around it pretty soon. <\/p>\n
“He\u2019s getting close. He\u2019s just had to be patient really and he\u2019s a big player so we\u2019re looking after him, making sure he\u2019s ready for a big finish to the season. <\/p>\n
“The good news is he\u2019s getting really close. <\/p>\n
“Matthijs, he\u2019s had a back issue, which has been a little bit slower to progress really. It\u2019s something we\u2019ve been working through and he\u2019s getting there. He\u2019s in the right direction but, as I said, he\u2019s just a little bit further behind. <\/p>\n
“It\u2019s one of those things that\u2019s disappointing but it\u2019s just a part of football unfortunately, so we\u2019ll get him back when we can. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s just the nature of the injury and the issue in the back. It\u2019s a difficult one to pin down, especially time-wise. He\u2019s definitely improving, so that\u2019s a good thing and we\u2019re just working towards that really. There\u2019s not much more I can give at this stage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Mason is getting closer really,” explained Carrick. “He\u2019s on the grass and he\u2019s getting closer, he\u2019s looking to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[230535,1592,13,18,12236,12240,12237,12,20,11385,14,21],"class_list":["post-792878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-2026_03_01_old_trafford_manchester","tag-first-team","tag-headlines","tag-like","tag-lisandro-martinez","tag-mason-mount","tag-matthijs-de-ligt","tag-news","tag-search","tag-team-news","tag-top-stories","tag-united-now"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116143529861310116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}