Owen Hargreaves Set To Leave

Owen Har­greaves

Accord­ing to the latest reports, former Eng­land inter­na­tional Owen Har­greaves will not be offered a new con­tract by Sir Alex Fer­guson after fail­ing to recover from knee tendin­itis. Canada born Har­greaves has seen his Manchester United career wrecked by a series of nig­gling injur­ies since the ver­sat­ile mid­fielder was brought to Old Traf­ford from Bundes­liga Bay­ern Munich for an estim­ated trans­fer fee of £17 mil­lion in the sum­mer of 2007.

Owen Har­greaves enjoyed a mem­or­able first sea­son with Manchester United, win­ning the Barclays Premier League as well as the Cham­pi­ons League with The Reds. After strug­gling with per­sist­ent injur­ies for a long time, Har­greaves even­tu­ally went to con­sult a spe­cial­ist sur­geon in Col­or­ado where the mid­field work­horse under­went double knee sur­gery dur­ing the 2008-09 cam­paign. Owen Har­greaves, who is the son of former Bolton Wan­der­ers and Cal­gary Kick­ers mid­fielder Colin Har­greaves, made his last start for Manchester United in the nar­row 2–1 vic­tory at home to Wol­ver­hamp­ton Wan­der­ers in Novem­ber 2010.

Owen Har­greaves has man­aged only 39 appear­ances for Manchester United.

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