Bayern Munich general manager Uli Hoeness has again told
Manchester United to forget about signing England midfielder Owen
Hargreaves in the January transfer window.
Hargreaves is battling back from a broken leg sustained in
mid-September and Hoeness says that Bayern are not interested in
banking a transfer fee that they would be unable to utilise until
the summer.
He told Bayern's official club website: "Nothing's going to happen
in the winter break.
"We face Real Madrid in the Champions League, so we're not about to
deliberately weaken our team. We're not a bank, we're a football
club.
"Our top priority is to strengthen the team, so what use to me is
another 30 million in the bank?
"We want to do well in the Champions League and we want to reel in
Werder Bremen and Schalke in the league and we need Owen Hargreaves
for that.
"If we ever thought we'd found a replacement for Owen who cost less
than we'd get for him, we might be prepared to think about it."