Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag believes the 2024/25 marketing campaign would be the ‘survival of the fittest’ amid rising health considerations.
The Purple Devils have been racked with accidents all through the 2023/24 marketing campaign, with the likes of Mason Mount, Marcus Rashford, Bruno Fernandes, Sofyan Amrabat and Lisandro Martinez struggling with severe points at numerous factors within the marketing campaign, amongst a bunch of different gamers.
However United — who completed eighth within the Premier League and received the FA Cup — weren’t the one crew to be hit by health points, with a brutal schedule at each membership at worldwide stage leading to increasingly squads being stretched.
United have taken steps this summer season to alleviate their very own points with the signings of Joshua Zirkzee and Leny Yoro, whereas they’ve added Gary O’Driscoll and Jordan Reece from Arsenal to move of sports activities medication and head physio roles, respectively.
Nevertheless, Ten Hag nonetheless believes this season will present a severe take a look at to the our bodies of Premier League and European gamers.
“Much more than earlier than, this season would be the survival of the fittest,” Ten Hag mentioned forward of this weekend’s pleasant conflict with Arsenal in California (by way of BBC Sport).
“The load on the gamers is so excessive. We aren’t the one crew with so many accidents and we weren’t even the worst. It was our unhealthy luck. We had them on the finish of the season within the again 4 and it value us a number of factors. However the strain on gamers is immense, with the brand new mannequin in Europe.”
