Owen Hargreaves | 2009/10 Performances

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Nobody would be stupid enough to buy him.

probably not, but at a knock-down price you might get some team willing to take a (pretty big) gamble. The main thing would ideally be simply getting him off our damn wage bill.
 
Shouldve tried to cut our losses with him a while ago I reckon - sell him to Everton or someone and watch him make a miraculous recovery.

Either way, I havent expected him to be an important feature of our first team for ages, nothing much has changed yet - if we are looking to buy a player though, a truly world class CM would be a sensible priority - we have nobody who i would put on the level of the best ones like Essien, Gerrard, Fabregas, Xavi, Iniesta etc and it has shown at times this season.

What? I don't know what classes as world class but I would say that if Xavi had put in a shift like Fletcher had done for most of the season then everyone would be going ott about him. Likewise for some of the shifts Carrick has put in. Anyone who thinks another central midfielder is needed is playing to much football manager. We have 2 very, very good central midfielders who have probably played better than Essien, Gerrard and the likes all season. We also have Scholes who is playing very well and in Anderson a young midfielder who will grow to be a huge player for us. I can't believe what I read in your post mate!
 
Imagine what happens to this place if he comes back next season and fergie gives him a 4 year contract extension with a 20K wage bump.
 
probably not, but at a knock-down price you might get some team willing to take a (pretty big) gamble. The main thing would ideally be simply getting him off our damn wage bill.

Whoever we sold him to would have to pay him an equal or higher amount to what he's being paid now or he wouldn't accept the contract.
 
He's now officialy a 'one week' player. Fergie said he went to the specialist yesterday and is now supposed to play for the reserves next Thursday against Burnley.
 
So had Fergie forgot his specialist was in America? That would explain why it didn't fit in with the training schedule. However, we'll wait and see what happens next week now. Though I suspect that with the luck Hargreaves has had since he came to United, had he played last night it would have been him and not De Laet that got injured.
 
SSN reports that Hargreaves will play for the reserves next thursday after an all clear from his medical advisors


Don't hold your breathe people
 
"Owen went to see a specialist yesterday (Thursday)," said the United boss.

"There is nothing wrong and the idea is for him to play in the next game.

"He has to play in the next game because he is ready to play."

United's reserve side is next due in action on Thursday, when they entertain Burnley at Altrincham's Moss Lane ground.
 
Shouldve tried to cut our losses with him a while ago I reckon - sell him to Everton or someone and watch him make a miraculous recovery.

Either way, I havent expected him to be an important feature of our first team for ages, nothing much has changed yet - if we are looking to buy a player though, a truly world class CM would be a sensible priority - we have nobody who i would put on the level of the best ones like Essien, Gerrard, Fabregas, Xavi, Iniesta etc and it has shown at times this season.

Yep, all those big games we've been outplayed in the midfield in...
 
"Owen went to see a specialist yesterday (Thursday)," said the United boss.

"There is nothing wrong and the idea is for him to play in the next game.

"He has to play in the next game because he is ready to play."

United's reserve side is next due in action on Thursday, when they entertain Burnley at Altrincham's Moss Lane ground.

Seeing is believing.
 
Wasn't going to bother going to the reserves next week but I might go down unless he has another 'not a setback' setback.
 
17m down the drain, bayern must be laughing their ass off :rolleyes:

You're also forgetting his wages.

I just hope that he can come back and play at a good enough level to be a squad player at least for a few years but even that might be a little bit optimistic. Poor guy but a major cock up on United's part.
 
You're also forgetting his wages.

I just hope that he can come back and play at a good enough level to be a squad player at least for a few years but even that might be a little bit optimistic. Poor guy but a major cock up on United's part.

Insurance covers wages when a player in injured for more than 6 months.
 
You're also forgetting his wages.

I just hope that he can come back and play at a good enough level to be a squad player at least for a few years but even that might be a little bit optimistic. Poor guy but a major cock up on United's part.

It was bad luck, he wasn't a crock before he came here.
 
You're also forgetting his wages.

I just hope that he can come back and play at a good enough level to be a squad player at least for a few years but even that might be a little bit optimistic. Poor guy but a major cock up on United's part.

And success based fees. The original fee was closer to £18 million wasn't it? And unfortunately, he doesnt actually have to be playing football for us to pay the extras concerning title wins and champions leagues. I don't even want to guess what the figure would come to if the original fee, success based fees and wages were all taken into consideration. But he clearly wasn't worth any of it.

It was bad luck, he wasn't a crock before he came here.

He had plenty of injuries before he came. Including ones while we were trying to buy him immediately after the world cup, until we got him.
 
He had plenty of injuries before he came. Including ones while we were trying to buy him immediately after the world cup, until we got him.

He played 61% of their league games in his Bayern career.

Carrick's average with us in the previous three seasons is 67%.

We couldn't have predicted him getting tendonitis.
 
"He has to play in the next game because he is ready to play."

United's reserve side is next due in action on Thursday, when they entertain Burnley at Altrincham's Moss Lane ground.

Seemed like a challenge/order from SAF.
 
He had plenty of injuries before he came. Including ones while we were trying to buy him immediately after the world cup, until we got him.

No he had a broken leg just before we signed him, before you say we shouldn't have signed him for that so did Anderson and he's hardly a crock now is he?

actually Anderson probably had a worse all round injury record before signing.
 
I saw him a couple of weeks ago at Carrington hurtling around on a mountain bike . Looked fit as a fiddle to me

Maybe they could let him use his bike for the first few games just until he gets back into it
 
I can see a new TV series. HARGREAVES AND AQUILANI, THE IRONMAN CHALLANGE.

:lol:

with wes brown and johnathan woodgate as special guest stars...

presented by Louis Saha.....


and coming soon, to a medical centre near you MR MICHAEL OWEN
 
My god, oh no, not another 7 days, come on people patients is a virtue, he's no more or less likely to be sold in the summer than he was at the start of the week.
 
He played 61% of their league games in his Bayern career.

Carrick's average with us in the previous three seasons is 67%.

We couldn't have predicted him getting tendonitis.

Hargreaves had tendonitis before we signed him:

It is an episode that does not reflect well on United's medical staff. "I obviously had the problem when I came to Manchester United from Germany in 2007 and we tried to manage it," Hargreaves said recently. "But part of the problem for me was my competitiveness. I was new to United and they had spent a lot of time, energy and money getting me from Bayern Munich. I wanted to do well. I came with symptoms [of tendonitis] but everyone said, 'Don't worry, it will go', so I always tried to be available. But playing on it made it worse."

Is Owen Hargreaves finally ready to return for Manchester United? | Daniel Taylor | Football | guardian.co.uk
 
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