So it is increasingly looking like Manchester City will take Owen Hargreaves on a free transfer before the transfer deadline approaches tomorrow evening, and i cant help thinking that on Hargreaves behalf his statement by joining our City rivals is a two finger salute to everybody at Manchester United and its supporters.
Hargreaves joined United in 2007 in a 17million pound transfer and in his first season at the club won the premier league and champions league trophies to cap an impressive first season. His second season never really got started as a patellar tendinitis problem on both his knees restricted his appearances, and it is at this point that United stood by Hargreaves and along with paying his weekly wage paid for his rehabilitation in America to try and rectify his injury problems.
After making only 27 appearances for United in May this year Hargreaves was told that he could leave the club and that he would not be offered a new contract due to the club not receiving any guarantees about his future fitness from the specialists that worked with him on his rehabilitation.
Hargreaves come out fighting after his release from United and even filmed a video of himself training in a gym that he posted on youtube in hope of earning a contract at another club. And it did not take long before it was reported that certain premier league teams had shown an interest in him and were willing to take a chance on him.
Today's developments that Manchester City have approached him and want to add him to their ranks has angered me and i am trying to understand why he would join the blue half after United and the supporters stood by him through his injury plagued career? I am sure their are other teams interested who could offer him first team football? Or is his motivated by the financial aspect of a move to the Ethidad stadium, because he would struggle to get into a team that already has a strong midfield department.
If Hargreaves does sign for City then his four seasons at United will mean nothing to the supporters, this is surly a parting shot at the club for realising him and not offering him a new contract, and he will be viewed the same as Carlos Tevez by the United faithful.
One thing that he obviously did not learn in his four years at Old Trafford is that their are two teams in Manchester, and an intense bitter rivalry between the two, and making the switch from one of them teams to the other is unforgivable by the supporters and club who stood by you.
I have also listened to a lot of supporters today wishing him well, wishing him well as he moves to Man City?
Like i said earlier, Hargreaves mite as well stick two fingers up to all the United supporters if as reported he signs on the dotted line for City.
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