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Hargreaves: happy at OT

Hargreaves: happy at OT


Hargreaves: happy at OT

Owen Hargreaves has spoken of his delight at quickly settling in to life at Manchester United this year. The midfielder missed a lot of games this year with injury, but has played Man Utd's last five games and is fast becoming an important player for the Old Trafford side.

“I feel like I’ve been at the club for years,” he told MUTV. “I’ve known a lot of the players for a long time through the England set-up and, of course, the national team has trained at Carrington on numerous occasions and also played at Old Trafford. So it’s always been familiar to me.”

“Being a United player is everything I expected and more. I’ve been really impressed with the club as an organisation, the people, the way everyone has taken to me. I’ve been hugely impressed with the quality of the players, the staff, the fans and also the style of football this team plays.”

“The only disappointment has been that I’d like to have played more games. Hopefully that will change now.”

Hargreaves has also praised his boss Sir Alex Ferguson for his knowledge of knowing when to play him, in times of injury.

“He has so far proved to be the perfect manager,” added Owen. “With the injury he's known when to rest me and when to give me games. But it’s not just the manager, all the coaches that work with the first team are excellent. They play an important role, but Sir Alex is the figurehead of it all.”

“The competition in midfield is great,” he adds. “We miss Scholesy at the moment, he’s such a great player, but Anderson has come in and he’s really starting to show what he’s capable of.”

"We’ve got plenty of options with Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher pushing for places. It makes it difficult for the manager, which is a good thing.”