The Manchester United Boss Sir Alex
Ferguson is concerned
about the amount of
options he has available at centre-
back ahead of the club's opening game in the Premier
League against Everton. Team defender Rio Ferdinand is fit and
Nemanja Vidic has returned during pre-season from a long-
term knee injury sustained last year
December, but elsewhere the Red Devils have been plagued by problems
and uncertainty.
Jonny Evans is recovering from
an ankle operation he
underwent in the summer, Chris
Smalling will miss a further three months and Phil Jones
picked up a back injury while the club was on tour away to Norway.
These issues resulted in the
manager repeating his experiment of utilising Michael
Carrick in the centre of defence during the friendly against
Barcelona and he was pleased with the central midfielder
performance. "Evans is recovering from an
operation; Smalling is out for three months," Sir Alex said to the
club's official website. "Jones got a muscle injury in his back
and was sent back to manchester from Norway. "So the area we're are
having deficiency is centre-back. Evans won't be ready for the start
of
the season,He won't be far away but he won't be ready for Everton.
"Smalling is out and I can't give
you an update with Jones because we've not been fully diagnosed
him,But Michael Carrick was absolutely brilliant
[in Sweden] with his passing the ball and his various interceptions.
He was fantastic quite fantastic
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