Just on that. When Jose and United won the competition a few years back the fixture load did become huge. Injuries effectively ended up prioritising the Europa League at the expense of the Premier League, because they just couldn't go for both competitions. Do you envisage a situation where you may have to make a call in the weeks and months ahead potentially?

“I hope so. I hope that we can go through and we get that problem, but as I've said I've got a squad with more or less two players in each position now. I can rotate, but it's important that we keep the consistency as well. We'd rather have too many games than not enough.”



You mentioned that you had hoped Marcus would recover quicker than what he will do. What is the nature of the set back? What's changed in terms of the schedule of his recovery?

“He had a scan and there was maybe more severe that fracture than what we had hoped for and expected, because he felt fine in the few days before that. I never had anatomy in school, so I didn't know that it just takes that time to recover, but when it heals he'll be stronger for it. So, it's important that we don't rush him and we won't do that.”



Erling Haaland scored twice again last night. He was a player you were looking at last month. Is there any regret that you weren't able to bring him to United, given the explosive start he's had at Dortmund?

“I never normally comment on opposition players, but since I've had Erling I'm just delighted for him. He's a top boy, absolutely fantastic kid that you want the best for and he's started fantastically with Dortmund, so we just watch him and you know for Norway it's brilliant for us that we have a striker that can score a goal again.”

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