Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Owen Hargreaves was bought by Manchester United to win the Champions League and they did.
Sir Alex Ferguson had a self-confessed obsession with winning the European Cup and he did. He hoisted it for a second time, with Hargreaves participating in the synchronised celebrations, in the Moscow rain.
Hargreaves, stricken by tendonitis, only played five more times for United after the 2008 final. The season write-offs ought to have safeguarded a Premier and Champions League double-winning legacy.
Then Ferguson dipped his quill in vitriol. "When I signed him, there was something about him I didn't like," Ferguson confessed in his 2013
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