Hargreaves hails Spirit

Owen Hargreaves has hailed the atmosphere at Manchester United as the best he's experienced.

"It's a great atmosphere," he told The Times. "It's the best atmosphere I've ever been involved in at club level. It's a fantastic group of individuals - not only as football players but as people. There's no room for egos or big heads here.

"It can be very difficult when you get that many people who are that talented at their job from that many different places, different cultures, different languages, completely different upbringings, to try to follow one common goal, and it takes an exceptional manager to do that because it could easily go in the other direction.

"The energy here is so positive, whereas at places I've been before there would be a few people who would have their own agenda or talk badly about other players or they'd smash into each other in training. That's not the case here and, from what I'm told, it will never be the case because the manager wouldn't put up with it."