MANCHESTER UNITED star Scott McTominay has revealed his parents moved in with him to help him cope with his injury hell. The 23-year-old was a regular under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer until he suffered a long-term knee problem during a 4-1 win over Newcastle on Boxing Day. The Premier League’s suspension had allowed the Scotland international […]
MANCHESTER UNITED star Scott McTominay has revealed his parents moved in with him to help him cope with his injury hell.
The 23-year-old was a regular under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer until he suffered a long-term knee problem during a 4-1 win over Newcastle on Boxing Day.
The Premier League’s suspension had allowed the Scotland international to return to full fitness.
Yet by then Nemanja Matic and a rejuvenated Paul Pogba had established themselves as Solskjaer’s midfield partnership and McTominay found himself in and out of the side.
United have since added Donny van de Beek to their ranks while the club are also considering a move for Bayern Munich ace Thiago Alcantara.
McTominay has been reassured that he remains in Solskjaer’s long-term plans but the youngster admitted he struggled mentally following the first major set back of his senior career.
He told the Official Scotland national team podcast: “Whenever it’s all going swimmingly, you’re playing every week and scoring a few goals here and there, it’s good.
“Then you get a setback and you have to react to that.
You have to think about when you’ll be back and set dates for yourself to push yourself. A lot of that does come from the people you’ve got around you, your family
Scott McTominay
“You can’t hang your head and be disappointed about that. You have to think about when you’ll be back and set dates for yourself to push yourself back from injury as well as you can without re-injuring yourself.
“A lot of that does come from the people you’ve got around you, your family… my mum and dad stayed at my house for two or three months when I got injured.
“They made sure I ate all the right foods, which I do anyway, checking if there’s anything you need.
“They’re the type of people who get you through stuff, always having someone there to speak to if you’re having a tougher time.
“For me, it went so quick from when I first got injured – my knee, that was ten weeks – that went really quick because I had people around, coming to see me. You can’t really do much when you’re on crutches.
“The physios at the club were amazing and they pushed me every single day to my limits to get me back as quick as I could, and it shows when you come back to matches and you’re ready.
“You’re only mugging yourself off if you don’t come back in that way.”
