Manchester United flew to United States on Wednesday for training and new signing Lenny · Yoro was included in the 29-man squad, but Zirkze is still on leave after the European Championships and he is out of the squad like nine other team-mates involved in the European Championships and Copa America. The Reds will fly to Los Angeles and train at UCLA before playing three warm-up games against Arsenal, Real Betis and Liverpool in Los Angeles, San Diego and South Carolina.
Scott McTominay, Hojlund and Eriksen, who also played in the European Championships, were included in the travel list due to the group stage exits of Scotland and Denmark. Marcus Rashford, who missed last weekend's injury to Rangers, has returned to training and has flown to United States. He was joined by the likes of Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof and Antony, who are also injured. Among them, the 30-year-old "Sweden Iceman" Lindelof missed the first two pre-season games, he has only one year left on his contract, and Manchester United intend to sell him.
Ten Hag brought 13 young players with him, including Toby · Collier, Jack · Fletcher, Ethan · Wheatley, Harry · Armas and others. It is worth mentioning that striker Joe · Hugill, who scored last goal, was not accompanied and is expected to be loaned.
The only absentee due to injury was Netherlands left-back Tyrell · Malacia, who recently returned to Carrington but was only able to train on his own, with a serious knee injury that has not yet recovered and is not included in the United States squad.
The Red Devils suffered injuries from the start of pre-season last season, with Kobe · Meno and Amad · Diallo both seriously injured. Some people believe that the busy schedule and long journeys are one of the reasons. The team played as many as eight games and traveled 2,600 miles to return to Santiago after a Houston match against Real Madrid. This summer, the Reds will only have five warm-up games, with a total of 13,614 miles traveled, a reduction of 1,622 miles.
Meanwhile, Manchester United have officially announced that Denmark centre-forward Hojlund will be given the number 9 shirt for the new season, and he showed off and donned the new shirt at Carrington. After joining last year with a £73million transfer, the 21-year-old wore the number 11 shirt and scored 16 goals. However, with Anthony Martial gone, Hojlund entered into a battle with new signing Zirkze for the number nine, who generously agreed to give up the number and he would receive the original number 11 for the freighter.
Hojlund is the number 9 in Denmark's European Championship squad and has also crossed that number at SK Sturmggratz. And Zirkze, who joined Manchester United for 42.5 million euros, also wore No. 11 in his first season in Bologna, and only changed to No. 9 last season. Zirkze said: "Hojlund wears number 9 and I go for number 11. I wore the number 11 in Bologna and the shirt number doesn't matter to me."
However, 10 Manchester United players who did not travel with the team, including Zirkze, were revealed by the British media that they may not go to United States to meet their teammates halfway, and they will miss the United States tour entirely.
Manchester United's 29-man squad United States: Andre Onana· Tom· Heaton, Radek· Vitek, Demote ·; Amas, Ree· Bennett, Yoro, Evans, Will· Fish, Lindelof, Maguire, Sam· Murray, Wan-Bissaka; Casemiro, Collier, Eriksen, Hannibal· Mejbri, Jack· Fletcher, Sam· Mather, McTominay, Mason· Mount, Maxi· Ojedler, James · Scanlon; Antony, Amad · Diallo, Hojlund, Rashford, Sancho, Wheatley.
First team absentees: Malacia (injured); Bayindil, Diogu· Darlow, Lisandro· Martinez, Luke · Shaw, Kobe · Meno, Bruno· Fernandes, Facundo· Pellistri, Alejandro· Garnacho, Zirkze.