Manchester United are having to travel to London by coach for their [Premier League](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/all-about/premier-league) fixture against Tottenham after their train was cancelled on Saturday afternoon.
A signal failure on the West Coast mainline saw the cancellations of a number of services on Saturday afternoon and United will instead have to make a four-hour journey by road.
United players had parked up at [Manchester Airport](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/all-about/manchester-airport) in anticipation of arriving home by air after Sunday's game but the club have had to hastily arrange an alternative mode of transport.
The club's superior coaches are already in London to ferry the squad to and from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium tomorrow, so United had to board an inferior coach on Saturday.
United had contingencies in place amid the unreliable rail services between Manchester and London Euston. United had to return from their last London game at Fulham three weeks ago by coach after their flight on Sunday evening was cancelled.
Strikers Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee have travelled after head coach Ruben Amorim suggested academy centre forward Chido Obi could be promoted to the matchday squad.
An injury crisis is mounting at United, with Amad, Kobbie Mainoo, Manuel Ugarte and Toby Collyer all reputedly out of the Tottenham match. Collyer is unwell.
A second coach left from Carrington that is understood to have ferried academy players who have been added to the matchday squad.
Amorim revealed United had doubts over three unnamed players who were injured or unwell. "Was a good week until two days ago," Amorim said on Friday. "We had some problems also. So we don’t have players back, maybe we have one or two issues but we are waiting.
"We have one player also who is sick so we will see the team at the weekend. But was good to work with the team, to feel the players and to try to improve our performance.
"I don't want to say names (which could be promoted from the academy) because we have to be careful with that. They are working with us.
"We had some problems this week, we called some young players to be in our training so we will have the data and evaluation and he (Obi) is one of them."
**Confirmed United squad members:** Dalot, Mazraoui, De Ligt, Lindelof, Heaven, Fernandes, Casemiro, Garnacho, Zirkzee, Hojlund