Cristalz:

Guys, bad day at the office. End of.
So, the players were off on the night. Happens to the best teams.

Cristalz:

Let's forget about it and discuss our fantasy line-ups for Liverpool.

Scholes must not be the only creative player United has got to offer. Gibson, Park and co have got to justify their pay as well.

Owen Hargreaves has made an excellent recovery from a career-threatening knee injury and could soon be back, says the knee surgeon he has been working with.

Hargreaves has not started a Manchester United game since September 2008 and many feared his career could be over.

But the renowned Dr Richard Steadman told BBC Sport: "Things are looking good for Owen, it's all worked out.

"He's close to playing fitness, although it's obviously up to United to decide when he plays a match."

Steadman, who has previously worked with Ruud van Nistelrooy, Michael Owen and Alan Shearer, operated on Hargreaves in 2009.

The 29-year-old midfielder has since made several visits to Steadman's clinic in Vale, Colorado, as he continued his recovery from the surgery.

Steadman, who rarely gives interviews, explained: "The problem was with the tendon attached to the patella on each knee, which is difficult to resolve.

"After the surgery, the key was rest and working hard on recovery. Owen has spent a lot of time with us here in Colorado and he just has such a great work ethic.

"He's never given up and we never gave up on him. The recovery was arduous and took a long time.

"But Owen is a patient patient and his condition looks promising now. You can't rush this type of injury and have to be very patient.

"He was with us a few weeks ago and is doing really well though. He was sprinting, twisting and turning."

Hargreaves was named in United's 25-man Premier League squad, but left out of their Champions League squad.

Steadman paid tribute to the work his colleague Luke O'Brien has done with the midfielder.

"Luke has a lot of experience with Major League Soccer and understands footballers and the demands placed on them.

"It's been about building the area of the knee to deal with the intense demands that will be placed on it.

"Football is all about rapid start, stop and kick. And you can't overstep the bounds with the recovery. Owen still knows not to push too far.

"We used a machine that allows you to be weightless when you run. Then gradually you can build up the weight placed on the joint."

Steadman is widely regarded as the world's leading knee surgeon and has worked with a host of Premier League footballers.

He says he particularly enjoys working with them, mainly because of their work ethic.

"I work with a variety of sportsmen and women and must say I always find the Premier League guys a pleasure to work with. They just never give up," stated Steadman.

Hargreaves secured his move from Bayern Munich to Old Trafford in July 2007 for a fee of about £17m after signing a four-year contract.

dayokanu:

^^ How Aba market on Tuesday?

tkb417:

@Chamo
Where are u? I want Ozil in UTD, how do we get him from Real? Lol

ice234:

pls wats up with hergreves

chic2pimp:

Him don catch HERPES!!!!

dayokanu:

Rooney, kitten, and C ororo are bad influences

dayokanu:

Rooney, pu-NAnI and C ororo are bad influences

Moonstone:

I seriously think we need to hold an intervention for Rooney so that he sticks to scoring goals as from now on. We can't afford to allow him miss more goals. I can't believe they took my Valencia out for the season. It's like an Arse curse has come upon us. We need him This coming from you? I should sue you!

chic2pimp:

Na so we see am ooo
I think you'll find Rooney has been scoring plenty of goals during the off season .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/7982734/Wayne-Rooney-slept-with-love-peddler-while-wife-Coleen-was-pregnant.html

Moonstone:

Lol, Be nice jare! it's the goals during the season, on the pitch . . . gosh, I'm not helping matters.
Okay, the goals in the actual soccer that we need. Those other goals are useless to Man Utd fans now.

chic2pimp:

Give him time. Y'all should remember that Ronaldo's most fruitful season in a united jersey just happen to coincide with the time he was sleeping with hookers up and down the country .

Ibime:

Why is it that now Berbatov is shining, Sauron has disappeared.
All the nincompoops who used to argue with Sauron about Berbatov should now apologise in absentia.