*crosses fingers & toes*
Hargreaves surprises Sir Alex
Owen Hargreaves is back in training and close to giving Sir Alex Ferguson a selection problem.
The boss told MUTV in an exclusive interview this morning: "Owen Hargreaves has come back training, he trained yesterday with the first team. He looked very good. I was surprised actually how good he was looking.
"It's an extra string to our bow, bringing him in at this time. After being out for so long, we'll obviously have to monitor him and see how he's going to progress in the next few weeks. But it's good to see him back.
"Because he's been out for so long you have to see whether there's going to be a relapse. That's the first thing on our mind at the moment but having watched him in training yesterday if he continues that way he's going to give me another selection problem, no question about that."
The boss has received a further boost with Michael Carrick also on the road to recovery.
"Michael started training last week," confirmed Sir Alex.
"He had that injection on his Achilles to settle it down. It was nothing serious, just one of those niggling little problems you can get with your Achilles, particularly at the start of the season when grounds are firm. But he's fine, he's started training."
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Owen Hargreaves is back in training and close to giving Sir Alex Ferguson a selection problem.
The boss told MUTV in an exclusive interview this morning: "Owen Hargreaves has come back training, he trained yesterday with the first team. He looked very good. I was surprised actually how good he was looking.
"It's an extra string to our bow, bringing him in at this time. After being out for so long, we'll obviously have to monitor him and see how he's going to progress in the next few weeks. But it's good to see him back.
"Because he's been out for so long you have to see whether there's going to be a relapse. That's the first thing on our mind at the moment but having watched him in training yesterday if he continues that way he's going to give me another selection problem, no question about that."
The boss has received a further boost with Michael Carrick also on the road to recovery.
"Michael started training last week," confirmed Sir Alex.
"He had that injection on his Achilles to settle it down. It was nothing serious, just one of those niggling little problems you can get with your Achilles, particularly at the start of the season when grounds are firm. But he's fine, he's started training."
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