Owen Hargreaves Will Miss Pre-Season

Owen Hargreaves will miss Manchester United's pre-season tour due to injury. Nani, Edwin van der Sar and Patrice Evra, who all played at Euro 2008, will also miss the pre-season tour to South Africa.

First it was feared that the England international suffers a long term injury, but Fergie denies it. "He will come back to training as soon as possible, it was the same injury as last year, we dealt with it last November and it went out just fine.".

Wayne Rooney and the rest of the United squad, including Carlos Tevez and Ryan Giggs, were included in the pre-season squad. Gary Neville, who spent most of last season injured is also included to regain full fitness level.

United go into their three-game tour in a tired mood, according to midfielder Michael Carrick. "The season has come round pretty quickly, but it is the longest I have had off for a number of years. It was nice to have the break, but I have been ready to come back,we won our first pre-season game at Aberdeen last Saturday, but it was all about the fitness and getting sharper.", Carrick said.

Manchester United Pre-Season Squad :

Goalkeeper :
Tomasz Kuszczak, Ben Foster.

Defenders :
Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, John O'Shea, Wesley Brown, Mikael Silvestre, Gary Neville, Daniel Simpson.

Midfielders :
Ryan Giggs, Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes, Darren Fletcher.

Forwards :
Carlos Tevez, Wayne Rooney.

Youth Squad :
Lee Martin, Fraizer Campbell, Darron Gibson, Jonathan Evans, Ben Amos, Christopher Eagles, Michael Clegg, Andrew Caveney, Gary Walker.