wacko Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 by all accounts (except up here) owen is a very decent person. you'll be hard pressed to find anyone (again, except up here) who dislikes him off the pitch. as an aside, owen gets a lot of bile about his contract but that isnt his fault at all. blame the prick who gave him it. Alot of Liverpool fans think he's a little s***. I know. How dare a player want to leave a club as historic as that to try his hand with Real Madrid. I think it's the way he did it that pisses them off. Yup. It's more the manner of his departure than the very fact of it. He basically promised and promised to re-sign until the day he f***ed off to Madrid. You're all familiar with Owen's vapid platitudes. How dare he, eh? Still has a year left of his contract in which to re-sign, and then the biggest club of them all makes the club and player a very good offer. Terrible. When I say promised and promised to re-sign, I mean for over a year. Real didn't make the club a good offer: they paid about half of what you paid a year later, which is to say Owen was pushing down his own price to attract offers, and all the while promising Liverpool fans he was this close to signing a new deal. That players want to leave is a fact of life (and they always seem to want to leave if Real Madrid comes calling), but they can be honest about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pav Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 I'm in Greece atm and all the newspapers/tv stations are running that story. Still I doubt he'll go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Word down here is that Villa and Everton were both after him, but he wanted 100k a week, and wasn't prepared to countenance pay as you play style sensibleness, which quite rightly made O'Neill run a mile. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Still wants £100k per week? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Still wants £100k per week? Apparently so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Still wants £100k per week? Apparently so. Mental. Unfortunately for us, if that's his mindset he'll probably hang about here for this extra month we apparently have to pay him and then go to whoever's offering the most. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Never had such hatred for a football player. I don't care if he doesn't beat his wife in public and speaks nicely to reporters, he's the biggest twat i've ever had the misfortune to watch at SJP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Never had such hatred for a football player. I don't care if he doesn't beat his wife in public and speaks nicely to reporters, he's the biggest twat i've ever had the misfortune to watch at SJP That's ridiculous tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 I cannot wait to see the back of this guy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest northwestmag1892 Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Never had such hatred for a football player. I don't care if he doesn't beat his wife in public and speaks nicely to reporters, he's the biggest t*** i've ever had the misfortune to watch at SJP Agreed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovejoy Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 i was in liverpool the day he signed him, i went straight to a sports shop and bought a toon top with owen on the back. walking up their main shopping street, one of the fella son the market stalls stopped me and said 'be carefull, he's not what you think'. i laughed at the time, thought it was sour grapes. how right he was. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richo Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 You would have thought, having made more money than anybody really needs, he would join a club for footballing reasons 1st and money 2nd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Still after a fuckin 100k a week, if any team is stupid enough to give him it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Without trying to sound all 'told you so', and whatnot (cos that's certainly not the case) - i felt a tad uneasy when we signed Owen. I was absolutely over the moon like, he was a world class player at that time. It just never really sunk in properly and felt somewhat 'too good to be true'. I think his forced smiles infront of the Leazes End that afternoon ,and the half-arsed "yeah, i erm, hope to be scoring goals here for four years" kinda did it for me at the time. Like i say, i was more excited than anything but there'd always been a lingering feeling that something wasn't right. In some respects, i still can't quite believe Michael Owen is (well, was...) our player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 He's never felt like an nufc player. Even when a group of us professed our undying love for him during a drunken night in East London during December 2005 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Aye that's it. It's never once felt permanent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garth Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Good riddance to the cunt, bigger waste of space than Luque was, at least Luque was cheaper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Good riddance to the c***, bigger waste of space than Luque was, at least Luque was cheaper. I wouldn't go that far. Owen did far more on the pitch and Luque wasn't cheap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Luque actually looked like he cared about the fact he hadn't lived up to the price tag. Owen really didn't seem to give a shit, with that brochure the final straw on an already weak camel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 One word:Mercenary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I still get angry when I think about the Celtic pre-season game in which Luque scored twice. The fucking bastards on the radio spent all game having a go at him and not one other player despite the fact he'd scored twice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garth Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I still get angry when I think about the Celtic pre-season game in which Luque scored twice. The f***ing bastards on the radio spent all game having a go at him and not one other player despite the fact he'd scored twice. The trouble with Luque he was done for when Roeder took charge and I think that came with Shearers blessing I just got the feeling Shearer and Roeder didn't think much of him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Micktoon Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Don't want to upset the apple cart as I personally think Owen has hung us out to dry. BUT. Lets say that playing football is Owens job, he gets paid for that job, He fancys a new job but his new employer will only give him half of what his old one is, however if he stays at his old one for another month he can pocket another 50 grand and his new employer will keep the position open for him. Same scenario for Viduka, except he just has to delay announcing his retirement for a month. If you were offered that opportunity what would you do. *puts tin hat on* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Don't want to upset the apple cart as I personally think Owen has hung us out to dry. BUT. Lets say that playing football is Owens job, he gets paid for that job, He fancys a new job but his new employer will only give him half of what his old one is, however if he stays at his old one for another month he can pocket another 50 grand and his new employer will keep the position open for him. Same scenario for Viduka, except he just has to delay announcing his retirement for a month. If you were offered that opportunity what would you do. *puts tin hat on* No need for a tin hat as you're spot on, and anyone who disagrees, whether it be either an extra £50k or £50 a week is a liar or stupid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Don't want to upset the apple cart as I personally think Owen has hung us out to dry. BUT. Lets say that playing football is Owens job, he gets paid for that job, He fancys a new job but his new employer will only give him half of what his old one is, however if he stays at his old one for another month he can pocket another 50 grand and his new employer will keep the position open for him. Same scenario for Viduka, except he just has to delay announcing his retirement for a month. If you were offered that opportunity what would you do. *puts tin hat on* Is the right answer. Most would hang on for the extra money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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