Owen Hargreaves struggling to make World Cup finals

[johnny crossan]

Hot news from today's Times!!!
Fabio Capello’s hopes of having Owen Hargreaves fit for the World Cup finals have suffered another huge blow after Sir Alex Ferguson removed the Manchester United midfield player from his Champions League squad.

Ferguson’s decision raises fresh doubts about the player’s chances of returning to action this season. Hargreaves has been sidelined for the past 16½ months after having operations on both knees to cure chronic tendinitis that has restricted him to 25 starts for United since his projected £20.2 million move from Bayern Munich in July 2007.

Ferguson, the United manager, claimed last week that he hoped to have Hargreaves available for the first leg of his team’s Champions League round-of-16 tie away to AC Milan on Tuesday week.

But the decision to replace him with Ritchie de Laet, a 21-year-old full back who has made only four starts, in the revised 25-man squad submitted to Uefa this week for the Champions League knockout phase is a worrying turn of events for United and England
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sadly this is what Roque's got

 

[ancoats]

is that the lad who was in the youth setup at the swamp
coz they have never spent £20 million on flops before

if that was a manchester city player then the press would be all over us for blowing money on
a player with dodgy knees

 

[Dubai Blue]

I'm struggling to make it as well, but you don't see The Times writing articles about that!!

 

[avoidconfusion]

Even if he would get fit in time to play... how on earth would he make it into the squad for the World Cup now he hasn't kicked a ball for almost 1.5 years.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Owen who?

 

[AntonDonJuan]

Biggest waste of money ever, and people called Robinho a flop....

 

[Pedro Tull]

Bad for England, would put him in midfield over Barry in a heartbeat, always liked him. Shame.

 

[avoidconfusion]

Biggest waste of money ever, and people called Robinho a flop....

Wouldn't got that far, I think Hargreaves is probably one of the best England players, he certainly was in the 2006 World Cup. He was very unlucky to suffer this injury.

 

[AntonDonJuan]

Biggest waste of money ever, and people called Robinho a flop....

Wouldn't got that far, I think Hargreaves is probably one of the best England players, he certainly was in the 2006 World Cup. He was very unlucky to suffer this injury.

He's always had dodgy knees

 

[avoidconfusion]

No he didn't actually.

He broke his leg for Bayern Munich once but the knee surgery he underwent in 2008 was the first one he had to have.