Man Utd boss Ferguson leaves Hargreaves off Champions League list
Manchester United have left Owen Hargreaves off their Champions League list.
The Times says United boss Sir Alex 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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Comments (4)
No doubting his quality, but seriously, get him match fit and get rid of him for what we can.
He's a quality player. The last operations were the last straw because they tried to avoid having to do them because they knew how long he'd be out for once they were operated on.
But once he's back, he should be somewhat clear of the problem for the rest of his career and he'll also be really motivated to get back into the swing of things.
He'll be a great addition to the team when he comes back, I just hope it's sometime before the end of the season.
Either he gets over his pathetic thinking or the games over, we knew before we bought him that his knees where bad, hopefully he will be sorted but just cant see it now, he could have become a legend at united but cant see it now.
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