Jesus wept, I'm not "annoyed" with anyone. You're missing my point altogether. I merely stated that Owen could have prevented all of this by, when he was ACTUALLY BEING LINKED WITH A MOVE AWAY (which was long, long before July 11th), putting an end to it there and then with a simple statement eithe commiting himself, or the opposite. But he chose not to, and that's why some fans have reacted badly towards him.
Eh? Of course I had. That thread is basically one of the things I'm reffering to. If you read through it, you'll see that in the eyes of many it came too late. Which is exactly the point I'm making :-/
How many of our players would stay here if Man U or Chelsea came in for them? If he would have been interested in moving away before pledging his future to us, why would he have needed to come out and lie about his true feelings? He obviously thought about it long and hard and decided to write an article in early July pledging his future to our club. If he would have come out with this earlier when it wouldn't have been heartfelt and he would have moved a week after, how would the fan reaction have been? The sad fact is that Owen is a player who has been of a higher stature than us in the past couple of seasons. Shepherd somehow pulled it off selling the club to him, but it seems inevitable that fans would have always second guessed him because we know he shouldn't be here. On top of that he has been really unlucky with injuries, which has made the situation worse as fans feel he´s taken more from the club than he´s given, even though he´s not been personally to blame. I think all this put Owen in a lose-lose situation regarding talking about his future at the club. From that point of view, I can understand him keeping his mouth shut and trying to become fit again and then doing his talking on the pitch.. No doubt when he will come back and will be on fire people will moan he´s only doing it because he wants away in January..