Robin van Persie is at odds with David Moyes over the new Manchester United manager's training methods, Soccer Villa understands.
The Dutch striker has told close friends that he is "disgruntled" at the greater emphasis on running and endurance in sessions under Moyes' coaching staff compared to the Sir Alex Ferguson regime.
Soccer Villa understands that Van Persie believes he is being overtrained, which is making him more susceptible to injury.
The player has also expressed his frustration that Rene Meulensteen, the former United first- team coach and his fellow Dutchman, was not retained by Moyes this summer when he succeeded Sir Alex.
Sources have said that Van Persie and Moyes exchanged heated words in the build-up to the Manchester derby after the 30-year-old suffered a groin injury in training, which kept him out of the 4-1 defeat at the Etihad Stadium.
It ended a remarkable run of 90 consecutive Premier League
appearances, at both Arsenal and United, for the once injury-
plagued Dutchman which stretched back to March 2011.
Van Persie is believed to have blamed the training methods
for the injury, while Moyes later hinted that the player and the
staff did not see eye-to-eye over how serious it was.
“I don’t think his injury is that bad,” Moyes said in the
aftermath of the Manchester derby. “We felt he was going to
make it but he just felt something in his groin.
“He’d actually done some training in the last couple of days
but he just felt it when he made any sharp movements and
didn’t want to aggravate it so we took that decision.”
Van Persie subsequently missed United’s Capital One Cup
win over Liverpool and was only a substitute in the 2-1
league defeat to West Brom that followed.
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