New Manchester United signing Owen Hargreaves is fully fit for preseason training.

The Times says Hargreaves will fly in from Canada to put his signature to a four-year contract today, formalising the £17 million transfer from Bayern Munich that has been a year in the waiting.

Hargreaves, whose contract takes effect from Sunday, will briefly return to Munich before joining his new teammates for the start of pre-season training a week today and he has declared himself fit to participate fully from the outset. The 25-year-old made only a handful of appearances for Bayern after breaking a leg last September and was forced to miss England's matches against Brazil and Estonia this month, but he is understood to have informed United's coaching staff that he is fully fit after a summer of recuperation in his native Canada.

That would leave Hargreaves free to join his new teammates on their pre-season tour to Asia next month, with matches scheduled in Tokyo, Seoul and Macau and a fourth game probably in Guangzhou, China.