Hargreaves out injured

Oh boy. I certainly was not happy when I first read about it. Cannot but feel sorry for the poor guy.

After a long and hard fought pursuit for the England international, United finally got their £18 million midfielder. What a cracker of a player Hargreaves has been for United when fit, however as unfortunate as it is, to lose a player of his calibre to tendinitis is a shame.

Hargreaves has always given his all for the club since joining from Bayern Munich, but has never gotten a good run of games due to injuries.

Hargreaves headed off to Colorado for treatment, but since his injury has been persistently nagging him for the past year or so. It seems to me that we may have to face the possible of his career being in jeopardy. As we witnessed with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's, United may lose another class player to a knee injury.

Let us hope for the best and wish Hargreaves a speedy recovery. We cannot lose a player like him without having seen his true potential.

Rooney in form

Last season people considered Wayne Rooney's season a disappointment. Even though he did not score a hatful of goals, Rooney did provide the support for the team to excel to the heights of last season.

Rooney's condribution lead United to the Premier League and Champions League title. He also had a hand in Ronaldo's 42 goals last season. But as we all know a striker is judged on the goals he scores and his assists often go unnoticed.

The 2008/09 season started slowly for Rooney, with many doubting if we would ever see the killer instinct we saw 4 years ago against Fenerbahce. Rooney is the type of player who gets down and dirty and will do anything for the team. His game has been critisized as being too demanding for a striker. We often see him down in United's half fighting for the ball, he's all over the place.

Rooney has now scored 8 goals in the last 6 games. Everyone is praising his form which not so long ago was being critisized. With Berbatov coming into the fold, Rooney has obviously raised to a new level. With Berbatov in the team, it has allowed Rooney to roam freely behind the striker and be more of a threat.

I think the question on everybody's mind is; whether or not Rooney can be consitent throughout the season. I certainly hope he can and Rooney definitly has the mentality to do so.