MANCHESTER, England - Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick was ruled out for about four weeks on Friday, just as another of manager Louis van Gaals vice-captains prepared to end his 12-year stay at Old Trafford.Carrick has a muscle injury and could miss up to six games, depriving the team of a player who has been instrumental in its improved results since November.The England international has shored up Uniteds midfield since returning from a long-term injury during the 1-0 loss to Manchester City on Nov. 2. United has lost only once in 14 games since then, and is fourth in the English Premier League heading into Saturdays home match against Leicester.Van Gaal also said Darren Fletcher, who like Carrick is a deputy to captain Wayne Rooney, is at West Ham ahead of a potential move to Upton Park. The Scotland midfielder has struggled for first-team opportunities under Van Gaal.Fletcher made his United debut in 2003, and has played 342 times despite missing almost two years due to ulcerative colitis, a debilitating illness.He is an important guy in the dressing room. I like him as a human being and as a player. We shall miss him, Van Gaal said.But he has not played so many times; always that is the main goal of a player. We have talked about that. He prefers to play. Therefore, we have helped him to go away. For us, it is a miss, a loss.United announced the signing of 20-year-old right back Sadiq El Fitouri from local side Salford City, which is co-owned by former United stars Gary Neville, Phil Neville and Paul Scholes.The Libya-born El Fitouri, who spent time at Manchester City as a teenager, made his debut only in December for seventh-tier Salford, and impressed during a weeks trial at United.He has signed an 18-month contract and will start in the United Under-21s. 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Pekovic had an MRI test Tuesday on his right ankle that revealed bursitis, which is inflammation of the fluid-filled pad that cushions the joint.In 1996, rugby league turned its back on 101 years of history to enter a momentous new Super League era. The new competition moved the action from winter to summer and kicked off with the meeting of Paris St Germain and Sheffield Eagles in front of 17,873 supporters at the Stade Sébastien Charléty.Freddie Banquet scored the first ever Super League try and Paris clinched a landmark victory thanks to a brace from Arnaud Cervello. Gary Hetherington was in charge of the Eagles on that famous night. Now chief executive of Leeds Rhinos, he admits there was some uncertainty about the direction the sport was taking in 1996 but the creation of Super League has provided provided more stability and structure. Players pose with the Super League trophy ahead of the inaugural 1996 season He told Sky Sports News HQ: It was an exciting time for the sport but it was also a really uncertain time. The Paris-Sheffield Eagles game set this competition alight. Nearly 18,000 people turned up, a wildly enthusiastic French crowd, and against the odds the Paris team won.Super League was a new competition, the sport had moved to the summer, the players had become full-time and there was more money in the game.But in many ways the sport was treading into the unknown. It was the first time ever that video referees had been employed and big screen decision were made.It was an innovative time for the sport and those 20 years have passed very quickly. There has been a lot of advances in the sport and we have now got a lot of stability and structure, and a platform to move forward. Gary Hetherington The improvement in facilities and standard of play have been the biggest changes over the past 20 years, says Hetherrington.ddddddddddddWhen we look back the original 12 clubs in Super League included teams like Workington and their stadium at Derwent Park. Halifax were at Thrum Hall, Oldham at the Watersheddings, Sheffield Eagles at Don Valley Stadium.All these stadiums are gone, as has the Central Park stadium Wigan played at and St Helens Knowsley Road, so there has been a complete transformation in the stadiums our supporters see games played in.That has probably been the most positive move forward but the move to summer has undoubtedly been a success, from the whole standard of play to players becoming full-time. Leeds Rhinos were victorious in Super Leagues 20th season The sport now enjoys more spectators and viewers on TV. There has been a big transformation both in the way the game is played and how it is seen by spectators, and all of those changes have been for the good.Of course, 20 years ago people were dreaming about Super League being played in Madrid and Barcelona and a whole range of European cities. That has never materialised and the Paris club only lasted two years, but they have been replaced by Catalans Dragons, who are one of the strongest clubs in the competition. It still has the French flavour about it.The creation of Super League 20 years ago brought a lot of uncertainty to the game. Established clubs like Widnes, Hull and Hull KR werent part of the competition but they are now.The traditional clubs very much make up the Super League and the Championship is a very vibrant competition, as well as the community game below that.There has been a lot of advances in the sport and we have now got a lot of stability and structure, and a platform to move forward. 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