Zlatan Ibrahimovic knee injury could threaten United future

With contrasting stories surfacing on Friday about the severity of the injury, it's now being reported by James Robson in the Manchester Evening News that tests have confirmed ligament damage and that the striker's season is over.

Jose Mourinho admits Manchester United are "in trouble" amid growing concerns that Zlatan Ibrahimovic will not play again this year.

With Phil Jones and Chris Smalling already missing through injury, the loss of Rojo means that the only first choice central defenders available to Jose Mourinho are Eric Bailly and Daley Blind.

Ibrahimovic, United's top scorer for the season with 28 goals, had landed badly during the game and is expected to miss the rest of the season and the chance to add to his legend at age 35.

Manchester United star Zlatan Ibrahmiovic's season is over after a knee injury against Anderlecht.

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Asked about their condition, Mourinho said: "I want to wait, but my feeling is not good for both".

United did not give a specific timeline for recovery and said that both players will see specialists in the coming days.

If they are safe thinking and they are surrounded by people with the same mentality they have, it is more time, more cautious.

The development casts some doubt over Ibrahimovic's prospects of staying at Old Trafford for a second year and extending his playing career beyond his 36th birthday in October.

Manchester United return to Premier League action on Sunday, as they take the cross Lancashire trip to Turf Moor to take on Burnley. We don't have Jones, we don't have Smalling.

It keeps them in a strong position to break into the Premier League top four before the end of the season, but numbers are dwindling as they also hope to lift the Europa League trophy.