“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":448802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[162699,3214,49,1753,3508,6814,18043,50,1755,16322,51,47,52,48,1756],"class_list":{"0":"post-448801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-2026_03_01_old_trafford_manchester","9":"tag-first-team","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-like","12":"tag-lisandro-martinez","13":"tag-mason-mount","14":"tag-matthijs-de-ligt","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-search","17":"tag-team-news","18":"tag-top-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topnews","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-united-now"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}