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Owen Hargreaves Views On Loftus-Cheek

Owen Hargreaves has had a great football career and the only reason he had to leave Manchester United was due to his health issues. Nonetheless, he was always praised by Sir Alex Ferguson and his team. Hargreaves has been a renowned person in the dressing room. He did 39 appearances in a span of 4 years. In 2007, the former Manchester United champion won the Champions League double and Premier League. Towards the end of 2011, he joined City as his contract came to an end with United.

The former Manchester United and Bayern Munich midfielder did advice Ruben Loftus-Cheek, the Chelsea midfielder to accept a 2-year loan especially if he continued getting restricted play time at the club. The Chelsea midfielder achieved 3 goals within 3rd appearance as he was under the guidance of Maurizio Sarri when Chelsea defeated BATE Borisov with 3-1 last month in the Europa League. As far as the performance of the England midfielder is concerned, he scored his initial 2 minutes in and tucked away from a distance of 12 yards post Davide Zappacosta tried pulling back the ball. In addition, he did add an extra 6 minutes from a corner and flicked on the corner of Willian to achieve an unexpected brace. This made the Englishman achieve an excellent hat-trick in the match with a delayed strike.
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s Red Card: Owen Hargreaves Reveals What He Noticed When The Striker Was Sent To The Champions League

The international of Portugal was shown a pretty red card in Juventus’ 2-0 win over Valencia. The red card was shown to him when he was seen pulling hairs of opposite team’s player. Here is the detailed description of the event. Owen Hargreaves has spelled out the red card of Cristiano Ronald in Juventus’ 2-0 win over Valencia in the Champions League.

The international debut of Portugal with the old lady was nothing short of a disaster after he was sent out during the match on 29 minutes just. It was not clear what had happened at the start when Ronaldo apparently clashed with Jeison Murillo from the ball and away from the referee. Replays showed that there was a small blend between the two players, but Ronaldo did not seem to push out his rival with his hand or head.
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Alphonso Davies Signs The Deal For Bayern Munich

The Vancouver Whitecaps team president, Lenarduzzi has said that Davies has the skill that justifies his record breaking contract which will take him to greater heights in no time. The Canadian midfielder will go from Major League Soccer to Bayern Munich. In fact, a Canadian teen has not been chosen for the first time by Bayern Munich. The club had chosen Owen Hargreaves from Calgary in 1997 when was a teenager. The 16 year old began to play 7 seasons with Bayern Munich besides 5 more seasons with Manchester City and Manchester United in the English Premier league. As a result, he was fit to be a part of England and played for World Cup squads in 2002 and 2006.

The midfielder’s talent did make his land in the English team. Many things were in his favor which made it feasible for Owen Hargreaves as he played the World Cup tournaments for England in 2002 and 2006. Hargreaves as a teenager shifted to Europe for pursuing his soccer career post signing a deal with Bayern Munich. It was not just his talent which got his name on the soccer jersey of Team England, but it was through his ancestry. His mother was Welsh and father was English. Therefore, he was made to play for England in spite of being born in Calgary.
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HARGREAVES: KLOPP STAYING AT ANFIELD

Former Bundesliga star Owen Hargreaves strongly opines that current Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp would not leave Anfield for the Allianz Arena. With the sack of Carlo Ancelotti, Bayern is searching for a long term replacement. Following their bad experience with Ancelotti, the Germans would be less likely to employ another experiment; they would likely go for tested and familiar hands.

Hargreaves says the German serial champions cannot take Klopp away from the Merseyside. There are better chances for Hoffenheim boss Julian Nagelsmann and former Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel.
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