Lanzini out for five weeks

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Slaven Bilic has revealed West Ham midfielder Manuel Lanzini will miss up to five weeks of the new season with a knee injury.

The 23-year-old sustained the injury while on international duty with Argentina ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and has since returned to London for treatment.

Lanzini will miss the opening three matches of the 2016/17 Premier League campaign, but Bilic expects to have him back at his disposal for the home game against Watford on September 10. 

Ahead of West Ham’s first match at the Olympic Stadium against NK Domzale in the Europa League on Thursday, Bilic said: “Unfortunately that’s another blow for us. He was not supposed to play tomorrow anyway. He was with us in the United States during our first part of the pre-season, he stayed there and we flew back to London.

“He joined the Olympic national team, but in a friendly game against Colombia he got a kick on his knee and got injured. It’s not only a kick on his knee to be fair. It’s not a big, big injury, but he can’t play for the next four or five weeks.

“I …

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