Erik ten Hag gives team news update for Man Utd’s trip to Nottingham Forest

Although he won’t feature in Nottingham, Mason Mount has returned to the grass at Carrington, following the similar recent progress of fellow long-term absentees Casemiro and Lisandro Martinez.

While Victor Lindelof is recovering from surgery, Ten Hag is hoping that the injury concerns that have affected us so significantly in the past few months will start to ease during the first month of the new year.

“I think in mid-January, we expect many players back,” he added.

“Mason, Casemiro, Martinez, [Tyrell] Malacia [and] we expect Harry Maguire [back] of course. We expect many players to return in January.”