Owen - If only the fans knew the facts!

[Alex 35079]

The only good thing about them winning the European Cup that year is that Owen had just left the club to try and win the European Cup.

[Howay 12496]

[StoneColdStephenIreland 74]

Sterling sharp fucked off from them.

[toonotl 2978]

The only good thing about them winning the European Cup that year is that Owen had just left the club to try and win the European Cup.

 

[ohhh_yeah 2964]

On 6/27/2012 at 4:01 AM, Brock Manson said:

 

It's time the mercenary little cretin packed it in if he's getting rejected by the UAE league.

 

 

Has the scousers up in arms now. Over 21,000 on their petition to Tony Barrett.

 

"Michael Owen has been a disgrace towards his position as Liverpool's International Ambassador and he must be stripped from the position immediately. Whoever decided to make him ambassador should also take a look at themselves. Michael Owen openly supports rivals and shows zero respect to Liverpool, until it suits him. On Wednesday night during the Europa League final, live on BT Sport, Michael Owen referred to Man Utd as "We". As Liverpool ambassador Liverpool supporters did not take this well and that was the final straw. The club and supporters deserve someone who will give 100% to the club and the only "we" should be when referring to the club paying you."

 

[Monkeys Fist 42428]

I'm torn between my eternal disgust towards the mercenary little cunt, and my never ending amusement at the scouser's ability to be outraged at fuck-all.  

 

Amusement wins, tbh

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

What a cock the lad is

[Dr Gloom 21915]

The brass neck on him calling Man U "we" after his complete lack of contribution while he was there, the fraud 

[ohhh_yeah 2964]

 

 

[adios 717]

How can the most boring man in the World be such an odious little cunt?

[OTF 7295]

5 hours ago, ohhh_yeah said:

 

 

Rio: "eh, who let that guy hold the trophy?!"

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

Just one more time.

 

 

[Ayatollah Hermione 13863]

Noticed when he was doing the punditry for the Europa League Final that he's starting to pile the beef on. The little fat shit

[rogerbarton 24]

Who is it that decides to keep this bloke on pundit duty? I remember talking to someone in radio who said phone-in hosts would make a career out of being hated enough to keep people listening. Owen, while annoying as shit, is surely too inane for that.

[ewerk 30602]

Just how hard up is he for the money?

 

 

[The Fish 10857]

[adios 717]

2 hours ago, Ant said:

 everytime this thread gets bumped i opened it with a different enthusiasm to the gazza one

 

[Howmanheyman 33182]

5 hours ago, ewerk said:

Just how hard up is he for the money?

 

 

 

The little cunt made sure he got what he thought he was owed from us before he did a brochure exit.

[ewerk 30602]

Barely worth reading anything the short arse twat has to say but anyway...

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My move to Newcastle was one I really regret – I should have followed my gut instincts from the start. I didn’t want to go there – my heart was still set on a return to Liverpool.

Newcastle manager Graeme Souness called me roughly every two weeks for almost the entire year I was in Spain and I can’t deny I liked the attention.

As the year wore on, he’d call me and say things like: ‘Michael, I see you didn’t start last weekend. Would you think about coming to Newcastle?’

While I don’t think I led Graeme on, with hindsight, I might have handled his first phone call differently.

Instead of straight-out saying: ‘If I come back to England, I’ll only be going back to Liverpool’ – which was how I felt – I think I said: ‘I’ll come back to the Premier League and I’ll look at my options when the time is right.’

If I have any regrets in my career, declaring this stance at that moment would be one of the major ones. . .

Right at the beginning of the 2005/06 season in Madrid the President, Florentino Pérez, said: ‘Newcastle has made a bid in the region of sixteen million pounds. If you want to go, then you can go. If you want to stay, you can stay.’

“But I want to go to Liverpool,” I told him. ‘That’s not possible unless they match Newcastle’s offer,’ he said.

At the time, that statement was a dagger in the heart. I was being presented with two options – neither of which I particularly fancied.

Liverpool couldn’t match Newcastle’s offer. From a career perspective, there was no doubt in my mind that a move to the North East was a downward step.

As unpalatable as that opinion might be to Newcastle fans, that’s more or less what I felt.

A fee was agreed. Meanwhile, Newcastle wanted to send their chairman Freddy Shepherd and the chief executive down in person to my house to sign the contract. Everything was moving unsettlingly fast.

I was getting increasingly cold feet about the whole idea. If I was thinking only of the money, Newcastle blew everyone out of the water. That was indisputable. They were offering me a hundred and twenty grand a week.

When they arrived at my house, I was resigned to the fact it was happening. No Newcastle fan will particularly want to hear this but, as this book is about truth, that’s the honest truth.

This, I should say, was not a reflection on Newcastle United specifically. I would have found a reason not to sign with any club that wasn’t Liverpool.

The irony of all of this is that, once I actually arrived in Newcastle for the first time, all the excitement that came with being a record signing at a club with such a passionate fan base started counter-balancing my earlier reservations.

The day after signing, the club flew me up to be greeted by twenty thousand delighted fans at St. James’ Park. Instantly, I felt like a hero...

The fans never knew anything about any of the behind-the-scenes goings on which occurred during my time there but my relationship with them was damaged beyond repair when I was knocked out against Watford .

When I got home, I switched on Match Of The Day to watch the game and I could hear Newcastle fans, my fans, singing ‘what a waste of money!’ as I’m being stretchered off.

I can’t deny their actions that day changed things for me. No longer was I even going to attempt to ingratiate myself with the fans. Instead, I flipped it in a slightly more resentful way thinking, I don’t need to justify myself to f ****** Newcastle fans.

And I have a long memory. As much as there were some good times to follow at St. James’ Park, my relationship with the fans was irreparably impaired that day at Vicarage Road. The love affair, if you could call it that, was almost over...

Freddy Shepherd came out with the line that he would happily “carry Michael Owen back to Anfield himself”. Being a huge fan of the club also, Freddy was only doing what all the fans constantly do at almost every football club: they believe that their club is ten per cent bigger and that their team is ten per cent better than it actually is.

This kind of blind delusion is especially true of Newcastle United – which, as I reach for the nearest tin hat, is only a big club in the sense that it has a lot of fans and a big stadium.

They’re historically not successful off the pitch, in fact quite the opposite mostly. And they’ve never really won much on it in recent times.

 

[Rayvin 5220]

Honestly I would read this with a sense of openmindedness for his view if it wasn't for the fact that I've seen that video of him celebrating goals against a 14 yr old like its some kind of achievement, and am now literally incapable of respecting anything he says, the narcissistic little fuckhead.

[ewerk 30602]

Shame on those fans though, calling him a waste of money after 14 games in two seasons.

[Phil 6]

I wonder what he'll say about his injury playing for England.  Against medical advise.   We got 10m compo, that is rarely mentioned.  That's really the event that fucked up his career.

 

Signing players that didn't want to be here.  I get the feeling we may be doing that again.

[Sonatine 11375]

I don't think the fans of any of the clubs he played for have any time for him, which says more about Owen than the supporters I reckon.

Edited September 3, 2019 by Sonatine

[trophyshy 7083]

Amazing how I can hear his monotonous, dim-witted drone through his writing.

[Chaser 1207]

2 hours ago, Sonatine said:

I don't think the fans of any of the clubs he played for have any time for him, which says more about Owen than the supporters I reckon.

Don't think I've heard much of that from scousers but Man Utd fans don't think they highly of him either. Probably the only thing that Ashley has done right is to take the club record signing "accolade" off him. How he gets a job in the media is a surprise to me.