Hargreaves wants showdown talks with Sir Alex

Owen Hargreaves wants showdown talks with Sir Alex after being axed from both Manchester United and England squads.

 Hargreaves is due on United's pre-season tour of America and Mexico in July.

But before that he wants to know the extent of Ferguson's part in him being left out of England's 30-man World Cup squad - after initially being named in it.

And also why he was not even given a sub's spot for the club's final game of the season at home to Stoke.

He had come on as a sub, though only for a minute, in the penultimate game with Sunderland.

Hargreaves stormed away from Old Trafford 50 minutes before kick-off against Stoke after discovering he was not in the squad.

The ex-Bayern Munich midfielder, capped 42 times, had hoped to play some part in a bid to prove to England coach Fabio Capello he was fit to be named in his initial squad.

As it was, Capello already had him penned in, having had Canadian-born Hargreaves' medical records assessed following nearly two years out for operations on both knees.

Yet that was before Capello spoke to United boss Ferguson on Monday of last week at a League Managers' Association dinner in London.

Ferguson is understood to have told Capello that Hargreaves was still a long way off playing at the highest level.

The following day, the Italian reversed his decision to include Hargreaves and reinstated ankle-ligament victim Gareth Barry.

Ferguson has been patient with Hargreaves, 29, who has started only 25 games since joining the club for £17million from Bayern in May 2007.

Earlier this season, Ferguson was angry there seemed more attention on Hargreaves getting fit for England than United.

Ferguson said: "Hargreaves owes us now. He has to think of his club not his country."

Hargreaves was voted England's best player in the last World Cup.

Yet Ferguson says there was no chance he could have gone to this year's finals after so long out and so little football.

Ferguson insisted: "Owen has not had enough football. You couldn't possibly have picked him. That was straightforward."