Medics predict rapid recovery for Shaw
Specialists treating Luke Shaw in Holland believe he has an excellent chance making of a full and quick recovery.
|||London - Specialists treating Luke Shaw in Holland believe the Manchester United defender has an excellent chance making of a full and relatively quick recovery from the broken leg he suffered this week.
United manager Louis van Gaal revealed yesterday that England international Shaw is expected to fly home today for a second operation in Manchester that will fully close the wound around the right tibia and fibula snapped so brutally in a challenge by PSV player Hector Moreno on Tuesday.
Van Gaal has spoken with Shaw on the telephone and professed himself amazed by the left back’s positive and determined attitude.
Furthermore, it is understood that doctors who treated Shaw in Eindhoven have suggested that the double break was so clean that the 20-year-old’s prospects are as good as can possibly be expected after such a serious injury.
The chances of Shaw playing again before the season’s end are still slim, something that would at least enable United to monitor the player over next summer instead of losing him to the European Championships with England.
Van Gaal said last night: ‘There can be circumstances that he can come back (this season) but it means that everything has to be good for six months.
‘I called him last night. He sounds very strong, which was amazing for me - a big surprise. It is a good signal but he knows he has long way to go and it is not easy.
‘His family is there - we have sent people with him and he will come back when he is prepared. Maybe tomorrow.
‘For us it is a big loss, as a team. I have said this will be the season of Luke Shaw, but now it is finished nearly.
‘The next operation is a closing of the stitches or something. It’s minor. He can fly back. I have heard that in the last information I got. It will be today or tomorrow then he will go to a private clinic in Manchester.
‘When it’s all right, depending on the development of the injury, then he goes home, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday.”
United go to Southampton in the Barclays Premier League tomorrow and have been boosted by the return from a hamstring injury of captain Wayne Rooney. Phil Jones is also back in training after a blood clot problem but not yet available. Rooney scored a hat-trick in the Champions League qualifier against Bruges recently but has not scored a Premier League game in 10 games.
Van Gaal said: ‘He is back. It was a minor injury and we didn’t want to take risks, but he has had training and treatment and I think he can start.
‘He scored against Bruges. He scored. It doesn’t matter if it’s the Premier League or the Champions League.
‘I was very happy when we scored more goals. It does not matter to me who is scoring. But we have to score more.
‘When you are so dominant as we are, in all the matches, we have to win these games.”
‘You can count all the goals he’s made. In my memory, Rooney has scored a lot.
‘He’s nearly the record holder in the Premier League so I hope he will beat that record but I have to wait and see, like you do.’
Daily Mail