Owen Hargreaves Set to Return

Owen Har­greaves

The sur­geon of mid­fielder Owen Har­greaves has indic­ated that the injury prone player could be set to return for Manchester United against West Brom­wich on Sat­urday. Har­greaves has not star­ted a match in the first team for over two years because of ongo­ing knee prob­lems, but his sur­geon is now con­fid­ent that the mid­fielder has over­come the worst of his injury prob­lems and will be able to start in the match against West Brom.

The son of a former Bolton player, Owen Har­greaves signed a pro­fes­sional con­tract with Bay­ern Munich in 1997. After spend­ing a dec­ade in Ger­man foot­ball, he joined Manchester United in a £17 mil­lion deal in July 2007 and went on to make his debut for the club against Manchester City the fol­low­ing month. But just as his career looked ready to take off things went pain­fully wrong as a recur­ring patel­lar tendin­itis prob­lem restric­ted him to sporadic appear­ances. The Cana­dian born Eng­lish­man has man­aged only one game for the reserves since he made his last full appear­ance for Manchester United against Chelsea at Stam­ford Bridge in Septem­ber 2008. An excel­lent passer of the ball, Owen Har­greaves is a highly con­fid­ent foot­baller known for his ver­sat­il­ity and excep­tional work rate.

Owen Har­greaves won his first Eng­land cap against Hol­land in August 2001.

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