Owen Hargreaves told Manchester United fans that he is recovering well from his injury and looking to be back to action very soon. The former Bayern Munich star felt the injury in his knee at the end of the season. It was the same injury which kept him out of action at the start of last season.
Hargreaves, who will not appear in next England friendly game against Czech Republic, is hungry to play and help United to win more trophies, however Sir Alex thinks Hargreaves should take it easy as United are preparing to win next game against Portsmouth.
“I am working on my fitness every day and while I have not joined in with the lads yet, hopefully it will happen this week.
“Whether I am fit for Portsmouth or the match after that, the most important thing is I am healthy for the rest of the season.”
Meanwhile, Manchester United won against Chelsea 1-0, a friendly game between both clubs reserves teams. Danny Drinkwater scored the only goal for United on 59 minutes. Also United skipper Gary Neville has started the game with Ben Foster returning to action after an injury he has during the first team trip to Africa.
Manchester United started the 2008-2009 season with a 1-1 home draw against Kevin Keegan side’s Newcastle United. Sir Alex Ferguson side was missing main players like Ronaldo and Tevez who supposed to start the game but he was ruled out because of a family bereavement in Argentina, leaving Sir Alex to start with Rooney and Campbell up front, meaning that there would no strikers on the bench.
United started the game attacking Newcastle goal. The first thread became the third minute when Fraizer Campbell was fouled by Fabricio Coloccini to give United a free-kick which was taken by Ryan Giggs. Giggs Kick was blocked by James Milner’s arm inside the box, but referee Mike Riley did not blow for a penalty which could change the game for United. After 3 minutes of that Wayne Rooney crossed the ball to Campbell who met the ball with a nice aerial head but Given was lucky that the ball somehow hit his head. Then a good effort from Scholes was blocked by Given when the Irish keeper saved his center shoot On the 17th minute.
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Sir Alex Ferguson may announce the fourth striker who will join the squad after Newcastle game today. Fergie who looked stressed as he is only operating with Carlos Tevez during last two games with inexperienced Fraizer Campbell on the bench, is looking to add a fourth skillful striker to add more strength and challenge to United front.
It is most likely that the striker will be Dimitar Berbatov. The report suggested yesterday that the Bulgarian striker has hand in a transfer request to open the way to his move away from the White Hart Lane with either Manchester United or Barcelona to be his next destination.
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Manchester United are going to kickoff the 2008-2009 season tomorrow at 15:00 GMT when they play Newcastle United at Old Trafford. The theatre of dream is likely to be filled with more than 70000 fans that are looking for the first three points in United campaign to retain the English Premier League for the third season in row.
Manchester United squad is boosted with the news that Wayne Rooney has recovered from the virus he picked up in United African tour while there are still many players who will be unable to play due to injury like: Ronaldo, Park, Saha, Foster and Hargreaves. And Nani who is suspended because of the red card he was given during last season game against West Ham United.
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According to reports and friends at Carrington in Manchester, Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov was spotted at Manchester United Training ground for medical and discussing the personal term of his contract with United. Reports suggest that spurs have no problem to sell their goal machine if Sir Alex is willing to pay extra £3 millions to reach their asking price.
If Berbatov moves to Manchester United by the weekend. It will end one of the longest transfer saga in the English Premier League. United are in shortage of strikers as Rooney is injured and Luis Saha is likely to be offloaded to Roy Keane’s Sunderland. So Berba would be the man to solve the problem and fans of United would like to be remained of Ruud van Nistelrooy goals when Dimitar arrived.
Berbatov may wears number fourteen, his favorite, and Fergie is hope to complete the deal before next game against Newcastle United on Sunday to increase the strength of the squad.
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Congratulations to all United’s fans around the world. Our team claims the community shield few minutes ago after the match hero Van der Sar could save one shoot and the other two were missed. The game end 3-1 on penalties following a goalless draw. The game in general was average. Carlos Tevez and Luis Nani did very well in today game as United were missing their main squad players like Rooney and Ronaldo. The first threat came after 26 minutes from Ryan Giggs. His shoot was denied by David James after a throw pass from John O’Shea.
5 minutes before the end of the first half, Nani showed his class with a nice aerial control of the ball from the middle of Pompey half. He flicked the ball over both Sol Campbell, then James only for Distin to save the day for Portsmouth by clearing the ball over the bar. Read the full story
