Manchester United goalkeeper Tom Heaton has suffered an injury blow on the eve of the Premier League season which has ruled him out of their opening game with Wolves and could leave them alarmingly short of cover.
United are already without Dean Henderson although he nears recovery from his thigh injury and they sold Nathan Bishop to Sunderland last week.
They have a £7.5million offer on the table from Bayer Leverkusen for Matej Kovar while 19-year old Radek Vitek picked up a knee injury that put his proposed loan to Accrington Stanley on hold.