Mcmanaman got motm in the european cup final - so didnt do too bad did he?
Owen made 45 appearances scoring 16 goals for Madrid - not bad for a bench player.
Parry did not put a buy back clause in - thats why we were trying to buy a quality 25 year old striker and a former european footballer of the year for 7m quid - a joke!!
Owen didn't think he could come back after Madrid - he wanted to...but its impossible when one club offers 17m and the other one 7m. Maybe our clueless chief exec thought madrid would say arrrhhhh let him go back to Liverpool..we can take the 10m loss - yeah right. Madrid are a business, parry thought they would show some sentiment...thats why Rafa couldn't stand him as he was useless at his job.
Owen managed to persuade a desperate Newcastle to let him sign a contract that had so many holes in it for him to escape we could have signed him back. But we didn't as Rafa didn't want him....thats football and thats life. We had Cisse and Crouch by that point I think as well as Kuyt and Morientes so were well covered!
Yeah he signed for the sc*m...what was he supposed to do faced with a choice of them, stoke or wolves?? Like it or not Michael Owen is career driven and he made the choice that was best for his career.....it turned my stomach...but he is a professional footballer and I am not. I will always respect what he did for this club over the 7 years he was here. He gave us his best years.
As for Stevie..2005 was Parry's fault with no blame attached to Stevie..but 2004 which you conveniently ignore was down to Gerrard. He pi*sed us about all summer at euro 2004 with fat frank and JTit. He pushed for a move to Chelsea that summer. I don't remember Owen acting as such.
Sorry to pick your post apart.....I respect your opinion... but this is mine!
Also apologies to the mods for drifting off topic....will pull myself into line.
Macmanaman.
Tells me everything him growing up a Bitter who offered him a one year contract yet he went with us because we gave him a two year.
True Blue eh?
I had just moved to Spain and watched Macmanaman on Canal Plus each week in the Spanish League. I had an interest to.
It was embarrassing him shying out of tackles passing the ball sideways and not committing.
He gave a cameo when the cameras were on him. World Club stuff etc.
Some people do a good interview but are crap at their job.
He put a couple of hours in for the CL..Final.. the CV would look good.
At Liverpool's expense and exploitation of his contract position he became the highest paid British player 2000 / 2001.
Indeed when Del Bosque wanted to get rid of him after 14 months our Macca refused to budge getting his £56,000 a week sitting in the Madrid reserves and giving his weekly interviews from his yacht in Estepona/Marbella to the Spanish press.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2000/aug/09/newsstory.sport1Boots. Remember his boots? When he was a kid Umbro gave him a contract and some big pennies at the time to endorse their boots.
Enough for the Spice Boy life until of course Reebok starting waving their chequebook about.
F**K the contract he said. Ill scribble out the Umbro name take the Reebok money and have the last laugh.
Im Macca. Ill do what I like.
Umbro had the last laugh when they won in Court.
Thanks to Macca putting a commercial shock through the Anfield Halls .... Robbie was knee jerked off to Leeds before he could play any games.
Owen.
You know then that we didn't put a Buy Back Clause in ? Source ?
However, what if we did have one and didn't want him or what if we didn't?
Irrelevant.
Owen grandstanded everyone long enough ..... and the credit to Rafa .....when he came in he gave Owen an ultimatum.
Owen went.
Would you want to re - hire an employee that had sh*t on you?
Freddy Shepherd himself told one of our supporters a couple of years later that he would have carried Owen back to Liverpool.
Owen had been with us since 12 years of age. had come through the ranks when he was doing his schooling.
It was Owen who thought he could become a Galacticos. Owen jumped at it .
No one pushed him.
Must have been a culture shock to big head, to find himself fourth in the Madrid pecking order.
In my eyes Owen lost any credibility he may have had left moving to the Scum.
Tevez and Gabriel Heinze had more honestly loyalty and ethics regarding the Utd / Liverpool historic relationship.
Heinze could have fought Fergie legally.
He would have won on a Restraint Of Trade so a leading Barrister said at the time.
The whole Owen - Fergie love in wanted to make me vomit.
When Owen sits down in years to come and looks back on his career , he will
not be held in the affection of a City and millions of fans world wide.
He will be looked down upon as he is.
A selfish little journey man and mercenary
Just like Torres. Just like Macmanaman.
Owen: A man who even as a 12 year old boy joining the club he knew the history between the club (that eventually made him ) and their bitter rivals.
"Professional" my arse.
Punt the glossy brochure again and see who comes out of the woodwork.
Even now he is sniffing round Southampton for a contract because in his own words "I am still more than good enough for the Premier League"
We give our loyalty .... we give everything to those players who put themselves on the line in every game.
We put our hard earned pounds in their pockets at the end of the day.
We expect that loyalty returned.
We fully support a professional footballer plying his trade and moving on.
Sometimes like with Kuyt things move quickly but there will be a time and a place where we will have the opportunity to thank him.
This club have had great players.
Players with a BIG heart . A loyal heart. Remember Sami? Remember them all.
Just don't mention Owen ,Torres or Macmanaman in the same breath.
Stevie.?
Sorry.
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