The heart of Owen Hargreaves has completely moved from Bayern Munich to Manchester United.
His value rose after his superb performance in FIFA World Cup 2006 as the midfielder of England.
Manchester United never stopped courting the midfielder placing a lot of value in him.
Manchester made it clear to the 26-year old star that he is the final piece to Manchester United’s driving force.
Steven Gerrard is asking the people not to write them off even after their defeat against United left them 11 points behind leaders Manchester and Chelsea. He said that the leaders are going to slip while they are going to get ten straight wins in a row.
Gerrard is thinking way ahead and should instead look at teams like Reading, Blackburn, Tottenham, etc. who are way closer than Manchester and Chelsea are. Steven shouldn’t ask anything because they are the ones giving people the pen to write them off with their string of lackluster performances. Steven needs to fix himself first after struggling on the right midfield with the team.
Steven insists that their talent is way too good to lose the premiership title. His play is way too chaotic at this stage to even consider them rising a bit in the standings.
Lando Donovan insists he could not leave American hamburgers, the beach, sun and women to play in Europe, and says he could become a better player but not a better person, because of the misery he shall suffer. I would understand playing far from home is difficult and being homesick is indeed miserable especially for an extended period of time.
Is that really the case? If Lando Donovan plays like a superstar in Europe he will feel at home as he becomes the center of attention, but if he rides the bench often, he will indeed feel homesick. Unlike in Los Angeles Galaxy where he is the most dominant player, he would struggle in Europe when playing with top flight footballers. I don’t think Lando would agree that his pathetic $ 900,000.00 salary in the US is more than enough than what he craves for.
Frank Lampard, vice-captain of Chelsea, has come under fire for a dipping performance starting with his inability to score in the World Cup Finals all the way to missing three of his last four penalties.
The media aren’t forgiving him even if he has scored twice in five games for Chelsea because people expect more from him to perform in pressure situations especially on penalty kicks.
Is Frank out of shape?
Patrick Vieira (number 4 in the picture) was impressive as he took the reigns of team captain in absence of Zidane’s suspension and helped France avoid becoming wandering fools in Germany.
The match was tough so was the position of France who is yet to win a Finals game this year. Without Zidane it seems they are heading out the door once again, but 30-year old Vieira had other things in mind.
Good news for Eriksson that Michael Owen doesn’t have any obstacles anymore from playing in the upcoming World Cup competition. This is one problem solved for him after all he still got one big headache out of Wayne Rooney’s injury.
He was hit by the popular “metatarsal” injury last December which spread like a virus among players as the world cup competition draws near. He suffered the injury in a collision with Tottenham keeper Paul Robinson on December 31.