Manchester United Football Club Blog: Manchester United include Owen Hargreaves in Champions League squad

Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Manchester United include Owen Hargreaves in Champions League squad

  • Player not due back training until late September
  • Midfielder likely to be available for Wolfsburg game

Owen Hargreaves has been included in Manchester United's Champions League squad.

Hargreaves is not due back at United's Carrington training complex until 23 September to step up his rehabilitation work after undergoing operations on both knees to cure a career-threatening tendinitis problem.

By that time, United will have already started their quest to reach a third successive Champions League final against Besiktas in Istanbul.

In theory, Hargreaves would be available for the home encounter with the German champions Wolfsburg on 30 September. More likely though, the former Bayern Munich midfielder will come into contention later in a group that also includes CSKA Moscow.

In total, United have registered 35 players for the competition, a number swelled by 10, including Anderson and Jonny Evans, who were born after 1 January, 1988, and have spent two years at the club.

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