United defender Chris Smalling has delivered an injury blow for Sir Alex Ferguson after he was ruled out for a further ten weeks following surgery on a metatarsal injury.
He had already missed out on a place in the Euro 2012 squad and the Great Britain football squad but the young defender looks set to miss several games in the forthcoming season while he recovers.
“He got an injury on the Wednesday and, straight away, we decided to have the operation so he’s out. It’s difficult to say with a metatarsal but it could be 10 weeks.” said Sir Alex.