Michael Owen (now retired)

[Big Geordie]

Owen has a heart the size of a pea and the integrity to match. A Grade A spineless cunt - I for one hope PL clubs stay well clear and let him rot.

[Guest neesy111]

31 league goals in 7 years shows how much his career has fell apart.  Would like to see how much he earned for those 31 goals.

[Cajun]

31 league goals in 7 years shows how much his career has fell apart.  Would like to see how much he earned for those 31 goals.

 

If that is right he is an absolutely pathetic individual and a complete fraud. Someone with his talent career pretty much ended at 25 years old because he is a heartless, spineless wanker.

 

32 years old and his career finished years ago. Wish Man Utd never took him on, it will only justify his deluded self belief that he is a top player who has played a vital role in football.

 

Such a fucking waste of ability.

[Ketsbaia]

After seeing how Owen's career has panned out, I now believe in God and I'm considering turning to Christianity.

[Cajun]

After seeing how Owen's career has panned out, I now believe in God and I'm considering turning to Christianity.

 

Then you see his bank balance..

 

He won't give a fuck how it has panned out, in fact he probably thinks he has had a fantastic career.

[Decky]

Of course he thinks that. He won't look at the goals or injuries, he'll look at his list of former clubs:

 

Liverpool

Real Madrid

Newcastle

Man Utd

 

Reads far too well for that useless cunt. The money he has made over the years as well, honestly disgusting.

[Hughesy]

Never scored 20 league goals in one season in his entire career.

[Guest elbee909]

He'll fit in at Sunderland.

[Fenham Mag]

31 league goals in 7 years shows how much his career has fell apart.  Would like to see how much he earned for those 31 goals.

 

Shola has scored 34 league goals in the same time 

[Fenham Mag]

........and his all-round play is much better.

[Mike]

And he's faster.

[mrmojorisin75]

He won't give a fuck how it has panned out, in fact he probably thinks he has had a fantastic career.

 

he can always just switch on his videos where he's humiliating 13 year old goalkeepers at will as well...remember the good times sitting on a throne made of unicorn horns

[Dyeyzzon]

"mates"

 

lols

 

 

Didn't know horses could play 5-a-side

 

 

http://gifs.gifbin.com/102010/1287507497_horse-plazying-with-big-ball.gif

 

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

After seeing how Owen's career has panned out, I now believe in God and I'm considering turning to Christianity.

 

Then you see his bank balance..

 

He won't give a fuck how it has panned out, in fact he probably thinks he has had a fantastic career.

 

He's had a decent career in the grand scheme of things, just never quite fulfilled his full potential and decided to put money ahead of more achievement .

 

I hope he signs for someone and plays regularly, though I doubt he will. Can't help but enjoy how good he is at finishing, even though I detest him as a person.

[STM]

Na i think he's a twat. Would love nothing better than him to be exposed as a horse fiddler.

[Chrisjraby]

Hope no fucker wants him and he's forced to retire.

 

Horrible little cunt.

[wormy]

Na i think he's a twat. Would love nothing better than him to be exposed as a horse fiddler.

 

[SEMTEX]

The hatred on here for Owen makes me titter.

 

Followed by 23 posts about why Owen is a cunt

 

how it should be

[STM]

We are lucky that Wacko likes Owen, as he will probably sitting on Liverpools bench next year.

[Guest Howaythetoon]

When he first joined he looked head and shoulders above everyone else as our best player alongside Parker and got amongst the goals. not quite worth 16m but he was proving his worth. Then he got injured for England and it all went a bit pear shaped from there. That said, under KK he was performing to a very high level, scoring goals and generally playing very well, albeit in a new position. Then came the whole fiasco of KK walking and Kinnear being appointed. It is well known that Owen considered Kinnear a complete joke and basically decided from there that he was finished with NUFC and looking back, I can see why a player of his calibre if you like decided to fuck it regarding playing for what was a complete joke of a club from the owner going into a hissy fit over a few boos, asking people to bid for the club via email and the appointment of Kinnear who if rumours are to be believed, allowed the players to come in when they like to train during the week. Leading up to match days they had to get together at the same time.  That was it. We would be talking about Owen in a different light if KK didn't walk and he stuck to playing Owen deeper like he had been doing. I'm not defending him by the way, he is an odious cunt, a mercenary and a cretinous person. For me the biggest waste of money this club has ever spunked.

[Guest]

I don't think his attitude changed from day one to when he went to Man Utd tbh. Just think once the goals dried up second half of the relegation season he was literally a waste of a shirt. He got 16 in 35 Premier League games in 2008 despite us being horseshit. Once his form dried up in 2009 and we had little to back up, his character made him worthless.

[Superior Acuña]

Pathetic footballer. I don't think anyone deserves as much grief as him when daring to show his face again at St James.

 

As HTT says, he showed some quality here, but that highlights his gutlessness at the end.  And for me the fact I fucked off to ManU after is very significant in my dislike for him. If he'd gone and fought in the league with Wigan or whoever was linked with him, he'd have given the impression he wanted to play and wanted to work his way back up. Instead he gets rewarded for relegating us by going to the champions, happy to never play just so he can get PL medal in cabinet.

[Mowen]

As Tooj says his attitude particularly in his last 6 months was shocking and his sub appearance on the final day of the relegation season at Villa the most spineless disgusting showing I've ever seen from any NUFC player.

 

Absolutely spot on in this part. Try telling a non-NUFC fan this and they'll laugh at you though, it's infuriating!

 

He's not as bad as Keith Curle mind.

[Wullie]

As Tooj says his attitude particularly in his last 6 months was shocking and his sub appearance on the final day of the relegation season at Villa the most spineless disgusting showing I've ever seen from any NUFC player.

 

Absolutely spot on in this part. Try telling a non-NUFC fan this and they'll laugh at you though, it's infuriating!

 

He's not as bad as Keith Curle mind.

 

You should go back to Fenners.

[Dokko]

http://www.teamtalk.com/newcastle-united/7779376/Owen-ready-for-the-football-scrapheap?

 

TEAMtalk guest Jak Penny believes former England striker Michael Owen is ready for the football scrapheap at just 32.

 

Has it really been three years since Owen circulated that brochure around the Premier League?

 

Oh how it dripped with conceit and desperation. The act of man deluded enough to still buy into the hype that smothered him as a teenager rendering him a laughing stock amongst the football fraternity.

 

Astonishingly the 32-page dossier convinced, or should I say duped, Manchester United into taking a chance on the injury prone frontman in the wake of his release from recently relegated Newcastle. And you could say that it served its purpose.

 

But last week, after playing just 52 games for United, Sir Alex Ferguson mercilessly cast Owen out into the wilderness leaving him teetering on the precipice of the beautiful game's waste receptacle.

 

Dubbed in his own contents page as "The Athlete, The Ambassador, The Icon," he now finds himself staring down the barrel of early retirement at just 32. It's been an alarming fall from grace for a player once considered the poster boy of our national game.

 

For Owen the outlook appears grim. Images of that fresh-faced, fearless 18-year-old shrugging aside and then surging away from Jose Chamot at France '98 before whipping the ball into the top corner of the Argentinian net are etched into the mental archives of every god fearing Englishmen.

 

Nowadays the picture is entirely different with the striker unable to string two games together before breaking down in heap of squandered talent requiring urgent and extensive repair.

 

His latter career has been ravaged by injury stripping him of the searing pace and effortless manoeuvring that terrified defenders all over the globe. His influence on the field has rapidly diminished over the years and tragically he's a shadow of the player he once was.

 

Although he retains the intelligence and remarkable knack of popping up in a scoring position the naked truth is that he no longer possesses the physical attributes to cut the Premier League mustard.

 

His injury record at during his four-year spell at St James' Park restricted him to just 70 appearances from a possible 182 meaning he was absent for a staggering 62 per cent of games. Hardly an ample return on the club record £17million shelled out by former Magpies chairman Freddy Shepherd in 2005.

 

It was a similar story at Old Trafford where he was available for a measly 31 per cent of matches and hasn't pulled on a United shirt since November due to a thigh problem. Who, in their right mind, would take a punt on him now? Sadly Owen still believes he can function adequately at the top level as he continues to latch on to he remnants of bygone era.

 

But finding a new club won't be all plain sailing. In times of economic austerity clubs won't consider him a value-for-money bargain even though he can be picked up for free. Add into the equation outlays such as signing-on-fee's and payment to agents and the bill extrapolates uncontrollably.

 

The problem is that Owen no longer possess a viable selling point that would merit the weekly wage he seeks. Injury and perceptions of greed means he is no longer an attractive proposition to managers who would have been chomping at the bit for his signature five or six years ago. Teams are now wary of his motives after he became stigmatised as a financial mercenary during his spell at Newcastle.

 

Still it's likely he will go in search of one last big payday before kicking the proverbial football bucket. But clubs that could afford to have him on their books are more interested in younger talents than a washed up figure from yesteryear with a limited shelf life.

 

It's also doubtful that he would be willing to swallow his pride, drop his extortionate demands and see out his remaining days at a mid-table side whilst earning a mediocre salary. He admitted the prospect of playing regularly for an 'average' club was unappealing preferring feature intermittently and win medals for a bigger team.

 

Thus a monumental decision hangs on his doorstep. Owen must ask himself whether it's worth prolonging a career that effectively fizzled out years ago. After all he is already a multi-millionaire and has achieved more than most during his 15 years in the game.

 

He's scored 221 goals in 473 games, won 89 caps for his country, finding the net 40 times, lifted seven major trophies and 11 personal accolades, crowned European Footballer of the Year in 2001 and played for Liverpool and Real Madrid along with Newcastle and Manchester United. What more is there left to do?

 

From the outside looking in the clock has run down for Owen and it's time to hang up his boots and succumb to the inevitable. Sadly no amount of egomaniacal brochures can save him from this fate.

 

 

 

 

 

Nice.