Erik ten Hag took his first training session as Red Devils manager towards the end of June, although a number of players were still off due to their previous international commitments.
Football Insider noted that Marcus Rashford, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Eric Bailly, Jadon Sancho and Axel Tuanzebe have all documented their individual off-season training programmes on social media. As expected, that off-season training wasn’t under the guidance of United officials.
Dinnery, who contributes to Sky Sports, was talking to Football Insider regarding the risk involved in off-season training without supervision.
He labelled it as ‘mind-blowing’ and ‘scary’ and couldn’t believe that players are allowed to ‘do whatever with whoever’.
However, as Dinnery mentions, players’ specific requirements need to be taken into consideration, and if those aren’t followed, then there’s every chance that an injury could occur.
A number of United’s international players returned on Monday, so the club should now have full control over what each player does heading into the new season.
Come next summer, it could be wise to have more concrete training plans in place for the off-season.
