Manchester United loanee Dan Gore has returned to the club for medical treatment after injuring his foot in training for Rotherham United.
The 20-year-old has been at the New York Stadium for less than a month, and made only one appearance before being sidelined with a hairline fracture.
The Manchester Evening News reports that the player has returned to Carrington to undergo rehabilitation, and once back to full fitness will return to Rotherham.
It is thought that Gore will be out of action for around a month so he can still expect to get something out of this loan spell.
The England youth international is desperate to be on the pitch after last year’s loan move to Port Vale fell flat after he picked up an injury on his first, and only, game.
Rotherham manager Steve Evans was frank when explaining why the midfielder has temporarily returned to United from the League One side: “I think that four full-time doctors and eight physios tells you where he should be.
“We’ve done that with other loan players in the past. Their progress is quicker because they have more medical back-up on hand. He’s in a good place there.
“The medical people say you can have a delayed reaction to it. It’s unusual for that to happen but it can happen. We have to accept that.”
Evans raised eyebrows with his initial reaction to the youngster’s injury, claiming that his side “didn’t do enough in training for him to have a sore nose let alone a sore foot.”
It was reported at the time that these comments did not go down well with staff at United.
The Scottish manager, who is in his second spell in charge of Rotherham, seems to have cooled down a bit since then.
“I saw how much the kid was hurting when he heard he was going to be out for that four-week period or so,” he said. “The reaction was genuine, he wants to play.
“I’m an experienced manager. You get a gut feeling about these things. He’s at the stage where – in the words of the coaching staff at Manchester United – he needs to be playing.”
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Joe Ponting
Joe has spent more than half his life writing about football and all of it following United. As a child he told a doctor his name was ‘Paul Scholes’, but could never pick a pass like him no matter how much he tried.
