Last season, it was Manchester United who were left wondering what they had done to anger the footballing gods as injuries rained down like a plague of locusts on Erik ten Hag’s head. Lisandro Martinez and Mason Mount missed the majority of 2023/24. Kobbie Mainoo, Rasmus Hojlund and more saw their influence restricted by frustrating absences. And when even the indefatigable, steel-carved Bruno Fernandes is consigned to the treatment table – missing a game through injury for the first time in five years – you know your luck is not in. At the risk of jinxing it, things are feeling a little more …