SURELY SOME MISTAKE?

Last updated : 31 August 2006 By Editor
… only recently News International's finest told us all he was going to sign that very day.


Owen Hargreaves has told his England team-mates he will NOT get his dream move to Manchester United.

And our best player at the World Cup must now start building bridges with his club Bayern Munich after Saturday's Euro 2008 qualifier with Andorra at Old Trafford.

Bayern stood firm under pressure from both midfielder Hargreaves, 25, and United.

Now he must face the wrath of Oliver Kahn.

“You can't just sign a new three or four-year contract and then disappear at the first opportunity. You have got to be professional, perform as best you can, show a reaction and give it 100 per cent.

“After all, football is not a concert in which you get to pick your favourite songs. We want to reach our aims at Bayern and we need all the good players we have got.

“We would definitely be ill-advised to give a player like Owen Hargreaves to our rivals — like Manchester, AC Milan or the other big teams.”

The collapse of the Hargreaves move ends a miserable transfer spell for United boss Alex Ferguson.