LONDON, United Kingdom, Jul 12 – Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana won’t play on the membership’s pre-season tour of the United States after struggling a hamstring harm in coaching.
The Cameroon worldwide, 29, has responded effectively to preliminary remedy and can nonetheless journey to America for the three-game Premier League Summer Series later in July, however his time might be spent on restoration.
It means Altay Bayindir, 27, is more likely to be Ruben Amorim’s first-choice goalkeeper in pre-season.
There had been main doubts over the Turkey worldwide’s Old Trafford future after he misplaced out to Onana for choice within the Europa League remaining in May, regardless of the previous Inter Milan keeper’s personal dip in kind.
It stays to be seen whether or not Onana’s harm forces United into the marketplace for one other goalkeeper, whereas there was hypothesis on the finish of final season they might search for alternate options.
However, Amorim stated he trusted Onana, who returned for pre-season coaching within the perception he would stay first-choice regardless of making quite a lot of high-profile errors since becoming a member of from Inter in a £47.2m deal in 2023.
Former England worldwide Tom Heaton, 39, signed a brand new one-year extension this week.
United’s different goalkeeping choices are 21-year-old Czech Republic youth worldwide Radek Vitek, who impressed on mortgage at Austria facet FC Blau-Weiss Linz final season, in addition to Poland youth worldwide Hubert Graczyk, 19-year-old Elyh Harrison and 22-year-old Dermot Mee. They have been all named on the bench by Amorim in direction of the top of the marketing campaign, however haven’t any senior expertise.
United open their pre-season marketing campaign in opposition to rivals Leeds in Stockholm on 19 July.
They play West Ham, Bournemouth and Everton within the United States from 27 July to three August, earlier than finishing their preparations in opposition to Fiorentina on 9 August at Old Trafford.
United’s opening recreation of the brand new Premier League season is in opposition to Arsenal on 17 August.
