United have registered 35 players for this season's
Champions League group stages, and it is also positive to note
that Owen Hargreaves has been included.
Sir Alex Ferguson's men kick off the new European
campaign away to Besiktas on 15 September in Istanbul.
The Reds midfielder isn't due back at the club on 23
September, where it is hoped he will begin the final phase of his
recovery tendonitis after surgery on both knees last season.
But it is positive nonetheless that he is being considered for
action during the group stages.
Hargreaves has been in America working on his rehabilitation
programme over the summer and it would now seem he is nearing the
end of a year-long road to recovery.
United's Champions League squad numbers in full are:
1.Van der Sar, 2.Neville,
3.Evra, 4.Hargreaves,
5.Ferdinand, 6.Brown,
7.Owen, 9.Berbatov,
10.Rooney, 11.Giggs,
12.Foster, 13.Park,
15.Vidic, 16.Carrick,
17.Nani, 18.Scholes,
20.Fabio, 21.Rafael,
22.O'Shea, 24.Fletcher,
25.Valencia, 26.Obertan,
27.Macheda, 28.Gibson,
29.Kuszczak.
Additional players registered*: 8.Anderson,
19.Welbeck, 23.J.Evans,
31.C.Evans, 33.Hewson,
36.Gray, 37.Cathcart,
38.Zieler, 39.Chester,
40.Amos.
*UEFA rules permit any player born on or after 1 January 1988
who has been eligible to play for the club for any
uninterrupted