Micheal Owen to Manchester United

[heysham_mfc]

I thought he we going to Hull but sky sports news says he is about to sign for united and is at the training ground as I speek (or should that be type)

[mfcbro]

Wont cost a lot.Pay as you play agreement.

[Joel Ninety]

I'm happy with that. Get him fit and on the bench. Pay him minimum wage and then goal bonuses. That'll make him put some effort in.

[RedRedWine1]

It is quite funny how Man United have resorted to cherry picking Hull and Stokes signings whilst Real Madrid assemble a team of superstars. Owen has had too many injuries, and is well past his best. His career has been on a terrible downward spiral since he left Liverpool.

[George Dawes]

It is quite funny how Man United have resorted to cherry picking Hull and Stokes signings whilst Real Madrid assemble a team of superstars. Owen has had too many injuries, and is well past his best. His career has been on a terrible downward spiral since he left Liverpool.

wait & see

[bigreddog]

Though it pains me to say it, I have a funny feeling that Owen will stay fit this season, get plenty of service, score quite a few goal (especially in the champions league), strike up a really good partnership with Shrek, force Berbatov out of the first team by the end of the season and force his way into the England World Cup squad.

Hope I'm wrong though.

[harty_shrimp]

i hope your wrong aswell, except from the england bit, i want him back in that set up. miles better than defoe/bent/cole , especially at international level.

[P/T Indie]

I think Utd will have more success at keeping Owen injury free than Newcastle. Have you ever noticed how some clubs always having shocking injury problems for years and Newcastle seems one of them,There must be more to it like training etc.

I think Utd will know what they are doing and Owen will score a lot of goals for them, any half decent striker will score a lot of goals playing for utd with the amount of chances they create.

[Joel Ninety]

It is quite funny how Man United have resorted to cherry picking Hull and Stokes signings whilst Real Madrid assemble a team of superstars. Owen has had too many injuries, and is well past his best. His career has been on a terrible downward spiral since he left Liverpool.

wait & see

+1

[Aspers]

With the resources at hand I think Man Utd have 1 of the most scientific training methods in the world.
Sports science has always been huge there.
Some players on special diets wake up in the middle of the night to eat, and noty cold pizza half pissed anymore.
I think Fergie knows this. Incentify someone, watch them perform.

[Christies Child]

Based on conversion of chances Owen was streets ahead of everybody last season according to Sky Sports this a.m.

[Number 1]

Based on conversion of chances Owen was streets ahead of everybody last season according to Sky Sports this a.m.

Yes but he has to be on the pitch to score.

[Bare Ben]

I saw a f****** judas c*** in McDonalds today...

[Joel Ninety]

I saw a f****** judas c*** in McDonalds today...

Yeah, watching a crucifixion gives me burger pangs too.

Would you like a Premier League winners medal with your Happy Meal, Sir?

[red shrimp]

owen is going to do the business for utd , proven goalscorer, experienced striker . goal record 2nd to none. free transfer. still only 29. giv him the no7 shirt1! this could be the transfer on the season. cum on utd!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wijit]

My own opinion is owen is past it, but I also agree with those who say he's at the right club for the training and medical side.
However, not matter what ant of us say here, none of us is the most successful manager ever in British football, and that man makes very few mistakes.

[heysham_mfc]

I still think Owen is a good player and i think he will do quite well at united

[George Dawes]

the way i see it, Owen he's due a bit of good luck

[Bare Ben]

I saw a f****** judas c*** in McDonalds today...

Yeah, watching a crucifixion gives me burger pangs too.

Would you like a Premier League winners medal with your Happy Meal, Sir?

Whatever Liverpool or Man Utd may have won, it doesn't take away the fact that he has turned his back on the team that made him because they wouldn't make him a cup of tea. He destroyed his career when he left and its disgusting that he would choose that filth in a desperate attempt to resurrect it. He's been too bothered about horses for the last 5 years to care about football and it will continue. I can't wait for 6 months time when he's played 4 games (at the most) and the Manks start the "wish we'd never got that shite scouser". If he dare score against Liverpool, he will likely be murdered.













On the other hand, Paul Ince what a legend

[heysham_mfc]

I saw a f****** judas c*** in McDonalds today...

Yeah, watching a crucifixion gives me burger pangs too.

Would you like a Premier League winners medal with your Happy Meal, Sir?

Whatever Liverpool or Man Utd may have won, it doesn't take away the fact that he has turned his back on the team that made him because they wouldn't make him a cup of tea. He destroyed his career when he left and its disgusting that he would choose that filth in a desperate attempt to resurrect it. He's been too bothered about horses for the last 5 years to care about football and it will continue. I can't wait for 6 months time when he's played 4 games (at the most) and the Manks start the "wish we'd never got that shite scouser". If he dare score against Liverpool, he will likely be murdered.













On the other hand, Paul Ince what a legend

anyone would think you didn't like him ben

[Joel Ninety]

I saw a f****** judas c*** in McDonalds today...

Yeah, watching a crucifixion gives me burger pangs too.

Would you like a Premier League winners medal with your Happy Meal, Sir?

Whatever Liverpool or Man Utd may have won, it doesn't take away the fact that he has turned his back on the team that made him because they wouldn't make him a cup of tea. He destroyed his career when he left and its disgusting that he would choose that filth in a desperate attempt to resurrect it. He's been too bothered about horses for the last 5 years to care about football and it will continue. I can't wait for 6 months time when he's played 4 games (at the most) and the Manks start the "wish we'd never got that shite scouser". If he dare score against Liverpool, he will likely be murdered.













On the other hand, Paul Ince what a legend

Meh.

Benitez didn't want him, that's why he left. He prefers the goals to come from throughout the team and not just from one player. Owen didn't figure in his plans.

Paul Ince similarly didn't go straight from United to Liverpool, like Owen hasn't done the same vice versa. He was alright, nothing special. But Andrei Kanchelskis - what a player!

[Bare Ben]

I was actually referring to when he had the chance to come back, but thought of his horses and chose the money at Newcastle. The contract was there, he was shown round the ground (as if he hadnt seen it before ) and all he said was that Liverpool didn't even make him a cup of tea. It's strange how now it's all "he couldn't save Newcastle from relegation" as if he was the only good player to grace Newcastle. Give me a break, they were abysmal throughout the squad, including him. And to say that some players just get injured at certain clubs or that it's something to do with the training is plain ridiculous, e.g Louis Saha. Ferguson's record speaks for itself but it's a crazy buy.

Notice how I no longer use his name - only as Judas, ******* **** or ****.

[Keith]

I no longer use his name - only... *******

I don't know, are you saying he's still a little star?

[Dazzer]

Like most people I see clips of Owen scoring that goal in the ’98 World Cup against Argentina and really struggle to reconcile it to the player, now, still only 29 who is behind Defoe and Bent in the England pecking order. In my opinion the precise moment Owens career started on a downward curve was when he pulled up with his first hamstring injury one Monday night game at Leeds Utd. From that moment, his electric burst of pace, his most dangerous weapon was gone for ever.

Benitez got slated for not doing everything he could to keep Owen, but the £8m they got for him with just a year left on his contract now looks like a good business to me.

In his last season at Liverpool, he would sit in post match interviews and say words to the effect of – ‘If Liverpool don’t start winning things I’m off’ Glossing over the fact that the main reason they weren’t winning things was because he was missing a hatful of sitters every game.

So then he went to Real Madrid to ‘win things’. In his first season there he won nothing and watched his former Liverpool team-mates lift the European Cup. In his subsequent seasons at Real he won precisely nothing before going on to Newcastle where he won relegation.

However the more I think about it the more I think this is a good bit of business by Fergie, unless Owen delivers in terms of performances and goals he is likely to end up costing a relative pittance, so probably a risk well worth taking

[RedRedWine1]

I'll have you know Dazzer that the deal struck by Rafa taking Owen to the Bernabeu was much better than the £8million you state. On top of the nominal fee, Liverpool also received the footballing sentsation that is Antonio Nunez.