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🗣 Ten Hag on Mount and Hojlund returning to training "It's very good news they are back in the pitch. They are back in team training, we have to decide whether they are fit enough to start [on Saturday] but it is very pleasing they are fit and back in the squad." More from Ten Hag on Mount and Hojlund "We have so many games in this block to cover, so very very happy. We have to make the final call, they did a couple of training, we have to see how they recover and tomorrow they will make the final call." Ten Hag on the importance of managing injury issues "Careful and top football: you always go to boundaries. It's not avoidable but when you have a full squad available then it's easier to manage the load when you are in circusmtances like last season and there is a need to play, we have to overload them. We hope we can integrate them in a very careful way." Ten Hag on United's 4-0 defeat to Palace in May "It was a 4-0, totally deserved, but Saturday will be different. I don't compare (situations). From February onwards we had to find 11 players to construct a team. Now it is 18 and we can pick one." Ten Hag on how United improved after the 4-0 thrashing at Palace in May "Maybe you can also compare it with the FA Cup final. Don't compare it. The circumstances in that moment in the season, from February on, we had to find every time 11 players who can construct a team and now we are in a different place, we have 18 players and we can pick a team."

• Who are your Premier League idols from the past? 🗣️ - Zirkzee: "Cristiano Ronaldo, Robin van Persie, Dennis Bergkamp."

• I saw so much happiness in your face when De Ligt scored, what was that about? 🗣️ - Zirkzee: "Matthijs is my buddy, he jumped right in front of me and I was just super happy for him. Also because of his difficult period with the National Team. I was just very happy for him."

🗣 Noussair Mazraoui: "I think it's really tough to come to a new club, with all the responsibilities that come with it." "I'd just been training two times with the new players you don't know [before the Fulham opener]. Well, you know them from TV and that, but not really knowing how to play with them. Playing with how I played, I was really proud of myself but I think Erik [ten Hag] told it already." "You can expect more from me because that is just the beginning. I think, when I really start to feel comfortable and I really settle in 100 per cent, it would be even better." "Yeah, I was a midfielder and then, for the second team, I played one season in every position, from left-winger to central defender in the next game. So I’ve played everywhere and that is what really helped me now."

🚨 Highly-rated 17-year-old Samuel Lusale at Old Trafford after leaving Crystal Palace to join Manchester United.

🚨 Manchester United are ready to abandon plans to keep Old Trafford if they build a new stadium. They now realise that lowering the capacity to 30,000 to help host Academy and Women's games is unlikely to work and too complicated. (Source: Chris Wheeler)

🚨 Manchester United are looking to offer new long-term contracts to two of their brightest young stars Kobbie Mainoo and Amad Diallo. (Source: Fichajes)

🚨 BREAKING: Mason Mount and Rasmus Hojlund trained with the group at Carrington today.

🗣 Christian Eriksen: “If they told me to leave I would leave, but I didn’t hear that”. “I feel very good being at United”. “I’m also a guy who likes being in a place where my family is settled and where I can benefit and play, that’s always going to be my aim”.