Dan Gleebals Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Has to be ranked as one of the worst, if not the worst signing, we have even made on a number of monumental levels. To think the little shite was captain as well. Time to move on and forget him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-r Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I can’t believe this my first post!!!!! , but if two goals are worth two medals how much would have two goals been worth against villa been.... I still think he’s an odious cretin btw... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I can’t believe this my first post!!!!! , but if two goals are worth two medals how much would have two goals been worth against villa been.... I still think he’s an odious cretin btw... Taken you about 4 years to post I see, welcome! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-r Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I used to post years ago under the name Dave, then the server crashed I've been scared ever sice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Dave heisted your name? What the fuck, Dave! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacko Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 he moved to us because we could offer him the first team football Real couldn't in the run up to the World Cup. I dare say the £133k a week didn't harm either like. the world cup was probably the most deciding factor if you ask me, the wages a nice bonus. Maybe he thought he could preform for a year here then move on to one of the title challengers after a successful world cup, I seem to recall rumours of a release clause at the time We were just a means to an end for him. He was only ever interested in playing for England and Sven made it clear he would only be selected if he was playing/starting regularly. We were his only option at the time. Not entirely true. We made an offer for him, too, but a lower one. Owen didn't have the balls to push Real to sell to us because he was too afraid they'd leave him on the bench for another season and he'd miss the World Cup. He wanted to come back to LFC again after NUFC, but Rafa wasn't interested. Owen's problems stem from the fact that he has neither heart nor guts. He's always done all his thinking with his not-cunning-enough head, which is why he's never understood or been popular with fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Dave heisted your name? What the fuck, Dave! Yes, this needs a public inquiry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ItalianMagpie Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Anybody who actually watched NUFC's matches for the tail end of Owen's career here will tell you Owen is not a good finisher. Maybe he was 7-8 years ago, but for whatever reason, he certainly isn't now. He was floundering about missing chances in a f***ing testimonial match the other day, man. This. I saw him missing so many f***ing chances that I soon stopped believing that he was this great scoring machine he was supposed to be. He did absolutely nothing throughout the entire game, at least you expect from this kind of lazy cunts (such as Romario, for example) that if they have a chance they scores 99% of the times. Unfortunately (and unlike Romario) he missed it, 99% of the times... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/250504/Michael-Owen-out-of-Toon Wonder who is telling the truth in this article. Shepherd says we were paying him £90k a week whilst Llambias claims it was £133k a week. Owen's salary was usually always quoted around £100k. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 EDIT: technically Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Dave heisted your name? What the f***, Dave! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I used to post years ago under the name Dave, then the server crashed I've been scared ever sice Fucking hell! DAVE, apologise to this man immediately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/250504/Michael-Owen-out-of-Toon Wonder who is telling the truth in this article. Shepherd says we were paying him £90k a week whilst Llambias claims it was £133k a week. Owen's salary was usually always quoted around £100k. while they're both nincompoops, i'd be more likely to believe shepherd. the fact that Llambias chose to preface the amount of pay with 'under kevin keegans management' should tell you all you need to know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Told you we should have erased him Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/250504/Michael-Owen-out-of-Toon Wonder who is telling the truth in this article. Shepherd says we were paying him £90k a week whilst Llambias claims it was £133k a week. Owen's salary was usually always quoted around £100k. while they're both nincompoops, i'd be more likely to believe shepherd. the fact that Llambias chose to preface the amount of pay with 'under kevin keegans management' should tell you all you need to know Well Llambias has yet again broken the 11th commandment and criticised Keegan, but it's interesting to note Keegan's comments on the Owen situation from March 2008 - “I’ve already started to say to the club that we should be talking to Michael now; not next week, not next month, but now,” Keegan said after Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Fulham – his first since replacing Sam Allardyce – in which Owen scored. The 28-year-old has mustered four goals in his past seven games for Newcastle, emerging as an increasingly influential figure. Supporters have not always found it easy to adore their record signing since his £16 million arrival from Real Madrid in 2005, but suspicions about his loyalty and frustration with his injuries have dimmed in recent weeks. Appointed captain by Keegan, the striker, who earns £115,000 a week, has demonstrated his commitment with fine, gritty performances against Birmingham City and Fulham. “Whatever finances are here, I don’t think we could go out and get a player that’s any better than Owen,” Keegan said. “That’s the reason I think we should keep him and, as long as he doesn’t get injured again, Newcastle fans will see a player who’ll grow into one of the greats here. “I don’t see why we should be looking all over the world for foreign players and trying to teach them how to play in the Premier League when we’ve got one who knows his way around and whose goalscoring record is tremendous. So I’ll do everything I can to keep him, but at the end of the day, it’ll be Michael’s decision. “The time to talk with him is now and that’s what I’ll be urging the chairman [Chris Mort] and Lee Charnley [the football secretary] to do. There hasn’t been a reaction yet because I only mentioned it last week, but I could see this coming. Michael’s not going to stop scoring goals, he’s not going to stop catching the eye and he is going to be wanted by other clubs.” Sven-Göran Eriksson, the Manchester City manager, is a long-time admirer of Owen, who has scored 13 league goals in 30 starts for Newcastle. “Michael is vitally important to the club at the moment and, hopefully, for the future, too,” Keegan said. “He’s a great player. He has been both a general and a soldier for us since I’ve been here and you’re seeing him now absolutely at his peak after his injury. He contributes both on and off the field. In a quiet, reserved way, he’s a major influence around the club.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Does it really matter exactly how much he earned? Either way it was too much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Keegan did manage to make a great player out of Owen, it's true. Damn good manager... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuv Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JS Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Keegan did manage to make a great player out of Owen, it's true. Damn good manager... Absolutely. I wont forget the last part of that season under KK (or any of his others for that matter). We looked really really decent in that 4-3-3 he had us playing in.. that bloke is still right up there for me like :thup: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 So he was a great player until Keegan left, at which point his form dipped to such an extent that not even Ferguson and Man U have been able to revive it. Bullshit. He'd lost his pace and his decline was there for all to see. Either Keegan failed to spot it, or Owen became a pawn in the power battle between him and Wise. I suspect a mixture of both. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Yorkie was right Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flatline Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Gradually lost his pace, and with it his confidence... not that big of a fucking mystery... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
80 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Beyond that, I remember thinking at the time (and twitter makes it even more obvious to me that he was right...) that Keegan was trying to make Owen feel loved and important with a view to re-inspiring him and making him play better for the club's sake, regardless of how true what he was saying was. In hindsight I also wonder whether he was trying to inspire Ashley with that kind of talk and move him away from the bargain bucket approach (not that it hasn't always done us a favour... but then Keegan was never against spotting a bargain, either). Edit: Enough of this Keegan talk... back to slagging off the odious little crybaby. To head off any jibes, that's Owen, Cronk... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Owen was still getting 1 in 2 for us until January that season. Was also a spell just after that where I think in 6 games he had 6 different strike partners ranging from Xisco in the FA Cup to even Duff. Gave up after that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacko Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 More Feint Zebra http://www.feintzebra.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/michael-owen-will-sit-on-bench-for-30000-per-week.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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