Manchester United boss David Moyes expects Marouane Fellaini to be out for six weeks after undergoing wrist surgery.
The summer signing has played on with the injury in recent months, knowing that an operation was inevitable, but has been on the sidelines for three weeks with a back problem. So the decision was taken to send the Belgian for wrist surgery.
"He had his operation on Saturday morning," Moyes said at the Aon Training Complex on Monday. "We couldn't get him recovered from his back injury. We thought his back would be okay after 10 days but it wasn't getting better, so we made a quick decision to get his wrist operated on.
"We think it will be six weeks but there's a chance it will be before that. His back problem was just going to take time. It was a muscle injury, which wasn't healing so it was going to take longer than expected. That's why we decided to get the wrist done."
