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Owen

Owen?

  • Yes

    Votes: 92 47.9%

  • No

    Votes: 100 52.1%
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One point is he would raise the club as a brand, a wealthy foreign investor might like to tell his friends he has the Michael Owen playing card.
 

Neiler said:
I thimk to be fair mate, its with out dispute Newcastle want him to stay. I think any club in the prem perhaps the top three and the [Poor language removed] would wnat Owen on a free. the fact we cant afford his wages i beleive is extreamly sad as a striker of his quality shoud be playing for a big club like us.
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To be fair to Newcastle, I think they might consider that they are as big as us, just less successful on the pitch at the moment.

But you can dress it up all you like by providing stats and chatting about his record for England, the point is that Owen is not better than Yakubu or Saha. So it would be insanity to break our pay structure to sign him. Maybe if he was younger than, say, 25, you might have a point in believing he offered value. But not now, mate.

Plus I get the feeling that Owen cares chiefly about Owen. He doesn't strike me as a team-player or a man that gives a damn about the fans. Newcastle rescued him from Spain and will have invested nearly £40m in him by the end of the season. God knows I can't stand the Geordies, but I feel that they deserve something back from him.

And let's face it, the big guns will not be after his signature, not unless Owen agrees to go to a club on vastly reduced wages, and as cover. So why doesn't he just [Poor language removed] sign his contract at Newcastle and thank the club for its patience and generosity? Is he that deluded that he really thinks Liverpool are going to come back in for him, play him up front with Torres, and pay him a £100k a week as well? If so, then just like last time he tried to get back there, he'll be disappointed.
 
Nebbiolo said:
To be fair to Newcastle, I think they might consider that they are as big as us, just less successful on the pitch at the moment.

But you can dress it up all you like by providing stats and chatting about his record for England, the point is that Owen is not better than Yakubu or Saha. So it would be insanity to break our pay structure to sign him. Maybe if he was younger than, say, 25, you might have a point in believing he offered value. But not now, mate.

Plus I get the feeling that Owen cares chiefly about Owen. He doesn't strike me as a team-player or a man that gives a damn about the fans. Newcastle rescued him from Spain and will have invested nearly £40m in him by the end of the season. God knows I can't stand the Geordies, but I feel that they deserve something back from him.

And let's face it, the big guns will not be after his signature, not unless Owen agrees to go to a club on vastly reduced wages, and as cover. So why doesn't he just [Poor language removed] sign his contract at Newcastle and thank the club for its patience and generosity? Is he that deluded that he really thinks Liverpool are going to come back in for him, play him up front with Torres, and pay him a £100k a week as well? If so, then just like last time he tried to get back there, he'll be disappointed.
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I still think hes quality mate and would love to see him here, hes as good and argueably better then Yak or Saha for me in his peak but the question is, is he past his peak, for me no. I agree on the Newcastle thing it would be the right thing to do to repay the loayalty, that said hes not gone yet and in fairness its a [Poor language removed] state of affairs up there, with that in mind you could argue that it lacks ambition to stay.

Has to be though, almost the vast majority of footballers care about themselves, the days of football deals being done based on whats best for clubs, fans, integrity are gone hes the same as the majority of players out there.

You know the score if he scores a hatrick today, hel be ace again!
 
GrandOldTeam said:
BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Newcastle | Magpies offer Owen improved deal

So to conclude.

Newcastle obviously want Owen to stay.
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My bad. I stand corrected.

Although I have still to see any evidence that he is available on a free in January. And I still think he isn't worth half what Newcastle are willing to pay him, and that he would be a bad signing.

As Nebbiola says Owen cares chiefly about himself. I'd be interested to see how many of the goals he's scored for Newcastle have come in matches they have won.

As for 'raising the club's profile as a brand' - ok so he's internationally reasonably well known but that is not the same as being rated.
Apart from 2000-2001 when THEY won won the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup, no team he's played in has actually won anything.
And he's no Beckham.

He's also not England's 3rd top scorer, he's 4th. And according to this of the top ten scorers his goals per game average puts him only eighth. Only marginally ahead of the headline grabbing (sic) David Platt.

Unless he does something pretty damned remarkable (and by that I mean something more than bankrupting gullible Newcastle) in the next two seasons, in ten years he'll be as forgotten as Martin Chivers.
 

Robin Sisland said:
My bad. I stand corrected.

Although I have still to see any evidence that he is available on a free in January. And I still think he isn't worth half what Newcastle are willing to pay him, and that he would be a bad signing.

As Nebbiola says Owen cares chiefly about himself. I'd be interested to see how many of the goals he's scored for Newcastle have come in matches they have won.

As for 'raising the club's profile as a brand' - ok so he's internationally reasonably well known but that is not the same as being rated.
Apart from 2000-2001 when THEY won won the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup, no team he's played in has actually won anything.
And he's no Beckham.

He's also not England's 3rd top scorer, he's 4th. And according to this of the top ten scorers his goals per game average puts him only eighth. Only marginally ahead of the headline grabbing (sic) David Platt.

Unless he does something pretty damned remarkable (and by that I mean something more than bankrupting gullible Newcastle) in the next two seasons, in ten years he'll be as forgotten as Martin Chivers.
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I'd personally make an Angel Of The North sized statue of him as a gesture of my appreciation if he did that
 
Neiler said:
I still think hes quality mate and would love to see him here, hes as good and argueably better then Yak or Saha for me in his peak but the question is, is he past his peak, for me no. I agree on the Newcastle thing it would be the right thing to do to repay the loayalty, that said hes not gone yet and in fairness its a [Poor language removed] state of affairs up there, with that in mind you could argue that it lacks ambition to stay.

Has to be though, almost the vast majority of footballers care about themselves, the days of football deals being done based on whats best for clubs, fans, integrity are gone hes the same as the majority of players out there.

You know the score if he scores a hatrick today, hel be ace again!
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He's on his way, Newcastle 1-0 up against Stoke within 10 minutes. Owen.
 
Yeah mate. Well passed it. Doesnt even want to play football anymore. We already have Vaughan whos injured, we dont need another one....

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If someone gets him for around £3m in January, it would be an absolutely steal.
 

It's his wages for me plus his very one dimensional game. I don't think we could pay his wages (I wouldn't want us to either) nor do I think he'd fit into our system.

That and we have two better strikers already.
 
Robin Sisland said:
As Nebbiola says Owen cares chiefly about himself. I'd be interested to see how many of the goals he's scored for Newcastle have come in matches they have won.


Unless he does something pretty damned remarkable (and by that I mean something more than bankrupting gullible Newcastle) in the next two seasons, in ten years he'll be as forgotten as Martin Chivers.
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So did he score a hat trick then? ;-)
 

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