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Samuel Luckhurst

Manchester United give squad update and team news vs Newcastle after Covid outbreak

Manchester United interim manager Ralf Rangnick says 25 outfield players are available to play in their next Premier League fixture at Newcastle on December 27.

United had both of their matches against Brentford and Brighton postponed last week due to a Covid-19 outbreak in the first-team squad and closed their Carrington training complex last Thursday.

Players started returning to training in staggered phases on Tuesday and every first-team squad member has now reported at Carrington this week.

Paul Pogba is the only outfield player unable to train as he continues to recover from a thigh strain that is expected to keep him sidelined for another two weeks.

"As you know, last week the last training session on Thursday, from there to today, we had eight few players and three goalkeepers and then we closed the training ground for four days in order to break the chain," Rangnick said.

"And today was the third day of training this week, we started on Tuesday, we trained yesterday and today, and today we have 25 field players, so quite apart from Paul Pogba, he's the only one who's still missing out, everyone else is on board. The development of the last week is extremely positive.

"We will train tomorrow and there will be a day off for the players on Christmas Day and then we have the last training session here on Sunday and will fly evening to Newcastle.

"As far as I could see today in training, they're all in good shape, all the players did their homework, they had their schedule to train at home and all of them stick to that schedule and to that programme.

"So from what I saw from training today, I can say most of them if not all of them might be available. But I have to take some difficult decisions who will be in the squad and in the starting XI."

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