Eric Bailly: Man Utd boss Jose Mourinho says defender could miss next three months
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Manchester United defender Eric Bailly could be out for up to three months and needs surgery on an ankle injury, says manager Jose Mourinho.
The 23-year-old centre-back has not played for his club since the 1-0 defeat at Chelsea on 5 November.
Bailly suffered the injury whilst he was on international duty with the Ivory Coast.
Mourinho said: "Eric is going for surgery. He won't be out for the season but it will be two or three months."
Mourinho started Chris Smalling and Phil Jones for Wednesday's 1-0 win over Bournemouth, and, following that win, the Portuguese boss said he was happy with his options at centre-back.
"During the whole season, we've had problems with central defenders but because the number is four or five, we manage always to have [players available] and Chris Smalling is playing amazingly well for seven or eight matches in a row maybe, so we are fine."
Bailly was the first player to sign for United after Mourinho took over as manager, joining from Villarreal in the summer of 2016 for £30m.
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Really? How on earth did you arrive at that conclusion?
United have the joint lowest goals conceded in the league this season. Only Barcelona have conceded fewer in the Champions League this season.
Why not spend a few seconds of thinking time before posting such obvious nonsense?
i wish eric a speedy recovery!
United have only 'parked the bus' once this season - at Anfield.
They have outscored every other team in the league with the exception of City.
Jose gets a lot of stick for the way he sets teams up - but he's still won more at United that Pep has at City, and United are still the second best team in the league currently.
GGMU!
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Only a classless twit would wish Ill on any player, regardless of which club they play for.
Shouldn't you be at school now??
They used to call Rooney rubbish, United and Englands record goalscorer. So probably the best player England have ever produced.
They used to call Ronaldo Rubbish aswell. Scholes was a rubbish player who couldn't tackle. Keano was just a thug. And Giggs was a disgrace for quitting international duty aged 30!
Haters gonna hate.
Winning 15 games is a record that UTD can only dream of.
So many comments by them on a HYS article about United...
If these morons hate United so much - why read every article about United that they can find, thus ensuring more United articles will be written!
Am sure there are articles about Citeh/Liverpool on the BBC - I wouldn't know as I don't tend to look for them, being a united fan!Funny that!
Just because the football dept at Media city can see Old Trafford out of their office window doesn't give them the right to adopt it and affiliate with it at us(the licence payers)expense, commercial sites are free to do as they like.
City got two goals from his mistakes defending - not his job. Strikers used to wait of the halfway line to start a counter attack from the clearance of corners. This is what you get when you use strikers to do defenders jobs!!!