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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 -

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I'm not here to defend Lambias but has it occurred to you two he may have been stating a fact? Owen could have been signed on an initial £90K a week with a year on year rise to take it up to £133K when Keegan was here.

 

I really can't see how anything Lambias has said this time is a slur on Keegan.

 

I wasn't doubting what Llambias was saying, and while including the 'Keegan' detail wasn't a 'slur', I think his reason for putting it in is more than just for stating a passing fact. I think he's irritated by the high esteem that Keegan and Shearer are held in by so many supporters, and he wanted to include a subtle reminder that Keegan was lobbying hard, in public and private, for Owen not to be sold and to be offered a new contract.

 

All perfectly true and, because I'm no fan of Keegan's, I've personally no problem with it. But Llambias would be better off keeping quiet because he's not going to win anybody round that way.

 

I don't think anyone can have much argument with this, there's no doubt that Keegan done enough public rallying to put pressure on the club to give Owen a new contract, if people wondered why the club didn't want to rush into giving him anything it looks like now we know.

 

It's also worth pointing out that while Owen had a great run of form towards the end of the season playing in the hole behind the 2 strikers, it was a formation that he went on to scrap in the last game of the season and went back to a conventional 4-4-2 which he stuck with through pre season and in the opening league and cup games.

 

As for his signing, I thought it was great at the time but looking back now it was always destined to fail as if he avoided injury he would have jumped ship at the first chance anyway.

 

Keegan didn't scrap the formation.  It was just that lanky fat aussie bastard got himself injured as usual.

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Guest Stephen927

What's with all the stupid hats in that video?

 

Now I'm not one for beastiality, but I would fuck Owen's horse until it died. While he watched, tied to a chair. Naked.

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What's with all the stupid hats in that video?

 

Now I'm not one for beastiality, but I would fuck Owen's horse until it died. While he watched, tied to a chair. Naked.

 

Too early for this shit.

 

/Mike

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Nice tweet to him from Morgan last night  ;D

 

H'way man, you can't leave it like that???

 

Piers Morgan

Congrats on your Ascot glory @themichaelowen - more silverware where someone else did all the running...

 

:lol: Cheers, that's class!

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Nice tweet to him from Morgan last night  ;D

 

H'way man, you can't leave it like that???

 

Piers Morgan

Congrats on your Ascot glory @themichaelowen - more silverware where someone else did all the running...

 

:lol:

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One great thing about football is that every pair of teams have one thing in common. For example, despite my hatred of Liverpool, we share a wonderful dislike of Michael Owen. It's genuinely touching.

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