NO COMPLAINTS FROM BAYERN
Last updated : 12 February 2007 By Ed
From the Times
Manchester United are expected to escape censure over their latest clandestine meeting with Owen Hargreaves, with Bayern Munich resigned to selling the England midfield player in a £21 million deal at the end of the season.
Hargreaves left the England team hotel in Manchester on Tuesday to travel to Old Trafford, where he spoke to Sir Alex Ferguson, the United manager, and David Gill, the chief executive. Unless the meeting was authorised by Bayern, it would represent an illegal approach. However, the German club were said last night to be unmoved by the meeting, having accepted that the 26-year-old will join the club in the summer.
United believe that a “gentlemen's agreement” is in place to sign Hargreaves, who played no part in England's friendly defeat by Spain last week, having played just one match since suffering a broken leg in September.
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