Manchester United's Premier League Squad Named

Long-term injury absentee Owen Hargreaves has been included in Manchester United's Premier League squad.

New rules state that every Premier League club must submit a squad of a maximum of 25 players. Eight of the 25 must be home-grown players. For a player to be considered as 'home-grown' they must have been trained in England or Wales for three seasons before they turned 21. Clubs can play an unlimited amount of players under the age of 21.

The managers can now only choose the players (not including those under the age of 21) from now until the re-opening of the transfer window in January. Changes the squad outside of the transfer windows can only be made in 'exceptional circumstances'.

Man United squad:

Edwin Van Der Sar, Luis Nani, Gary Neville, Patrice Evra, Jonny Evans, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Anderson, Dimitar Berbatov, Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Ji-Sung Park, Nemanja Vidic, Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes, John O’Shea, Darren Fletcher, Antonio Valencia, Darron Gibson, Tomasz Kuszczak, Ritchie De Laet, Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez, Michael Owen and Owen Hargreaves.

Under 21-Players:

Nicky Ajose, Ben Amos, Tyler Blackett, Robbie Brady, Reece Brown, James Chester, Tom Cleverley, John Cofie, Larnell Cole, Joe Coll, Conor Devlin, Bebe, Daniel Drinkwater, Joe Dudgeon, Magnus Eikrem, Charni Ekangamene, Corry Evans, Michele Fornasier, Zeki Fryers, Oliver Gill, Luke Hendrie, Etzaz Hussain, Liam Jacob, Matt James, Sam Johnstone, Will Keane, Josh King, Thomas Lawrence, Jesse Lingard, Federico Macheda, Alberto Massacci, Luke McCullough, Sean McGinty, Ravel Morrison, Oliver Norwood, Gabriel Obertan, Rafael da Silva, Fabio da Silva, Davide Petrucci, Paul Pogba, Chris Smalling, Cameron Stewart, Tom Thorpe, Ryan Tunnicliffe, Marnick Vermijl, Danny Welbeck and Scott Wooton.

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Cleverley Set To Join Wigan On Loan

According to Sky sources, Wigan have agreed a deal with Manchester United to take Tom Cleverley on loan.

Cleverley hasn’t made a first team appearance for Man United yet, but he did impress during pre-season.

There has been interest from other Premier League clubs but it looks like Wigan have won the race for the 21-year old. The youngster was loaned out to Watford last season, scoring 11 goal in 33 appearances.

Confirmed: Tom Cleverley has joined Wigan on a season-long loan

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Rooney Scores As Man United Beat West Ham Comfortably

Wayne Rooney scored his first goal in almost five months as he helped Man United secure a comfortable 3-0 win over West Ham at Old Trafford.

Rooney and Ryan Giggs returned to the starting line-up, replacing Antonio Valencia and Ji-Sung Park. Edwin Van Der Sar was in goal with John O’Shea, Jonny Evans, Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra making up the defence. Luis Nani, Paul Scholes and Darren Fletcher joined Giggs in midfield with Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov up front.

Rooney opened up the scoring through a penalty after Ryan Giggs was clipped in the area by Jonathan Spector. That was followed by some pressure from Man United on the Hammers goal, with Fletcher bringing out a class save from Rob Green.

Man United went into halftime with a comfortable 1-0 lead, only give minutes into the second half Nani doubled United’s lead. Scholes found Rooney, he flicked the ball on to Nani who skipped past Gabbidon, ran into the penalty area and hit the ball past Green.

With 69 minutes on the clock, Berbatov scored a well-deserved goal. A superb cross by Nani was volleyed in by Berbatov.

Overall it was a good performance from the team, there probably should have been more goals scored but there can't be too many complaints. Berbatov had a great game and thoroughly deserved his goal and Scholes had another great game in the midfield.

Sir Alex Ferguson was also impressed with those two players, after the game he told ESPN:

"We put in a very good performance. We had plenty of possession and, while we could have scored more, the key goal was always going to be the first one. I thought our link-up play was excellent, and the way Paul Scholes and Dimitar Berbatov, in particular, directed our play did not go unnoticed. So yes, I'm very pleased."

There is now an International break but Manchester United's next game is a 12:45 GMT kick-off away to Everton on the 11th September.

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Man United To Face Scunthorpe In League Cup

This lunchtime the draw for the third round of the League Cup was made, Manchester United will play Scunthorpe United, during the week commencing September 20th.

United will start their campaign to regain the Cup with an away game to the Championship side. Scunthorpe are currently sat 17th in the Championship table ahead of their match against Crystal Palace later on today.

Carling Cup third round draw:
Brentford v Everton
Portsmouth v Leicester
Stoke v Fulham
Chelsea v Newcastle
Aston Villa v Blackburn
Tottenham v Arsenal
Millwall v Ipswich
Wolves v Notts County
Burnley v Bolton
Birmingham v MK Dons
Liverpool v Northampton
Scunthorpe v Man Utd
West Brom v Man City
Sunderland v West Ham
Peterborough v Swansea
Wigan v Preston

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Manchester United v West Ham Preview

Manchester United will be looking to bounce back from the 2-2 draw against Fulham last weekend, with a win against West Ham tomorrow. West Ham haven't had a good start to the season, losing to both Bolton and Aston Villa.

Wayne Rooney is expected to return to the starting line-up after recovering from a virus. Man United will still be without Rio Ferdinand, Anderson and Owen Hargreaves.

Man United squad: Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Neville, Rafael, O'Shea, Vidic, Evans, Brown, Smalling, Evra, Fabio, Valencia, Gibson, Fletcher, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs, Nani, Rooney, Berbatov, Hernandez, Owen and Macheda.

Jack Collison, Peter Kurucz, Zavon Hines and Thomas Hitzlsperger are all out injured for the Hammers. Carlton Cole, Rob and Kieron Dyer should return, after sitting out the midweek League Cup win over Oxford.

West Ham squad: Green, Stech, Upson, Tomkins, Ilunga, Ben Haim, Gabbidon, Spector, Da Costa, Reid, Daprela, Noble, Parker, Kovac, Barrera, Faubert, Boa Morte, Dyer, McCarthy, Sears, Nouble, Stanislas, Piquionne, Cole, McCarthy and Obinna

The referee tomorrow is Mark Clattenburg, he took charge of Chelsea's 6-0 win over West Brom at Stamford Bridge. Last season he refereed 42 games, showing 105 yellow cards and five red cards.

Last season Clattenburg refereed four matches involving Manchester United. They were the 2-1 win over Bolton at Old Trafford, 1-1 draw away to Birmingham, the 4-0 home win over Stoke and the 2-0 win over Spurs in the League Cup.

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