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Owen

Owen?

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    Votes: 92 47.9%

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    Votes: 100 52.1%
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ToxtethBlue said:
If anything that shows a hunger to get involved, dropping deep and wanting to make things happen. Whether that's linking things together, holding the ball up or turning at running at opposition players.

Saha does all of this, whether you like him or not that is a fact. As does Yakubu and Jo, they offer far more to the team than goals.

Owen is one dimensional, he's very good at what he does (scoring goals) but beyond that he doesn't offer much else. He isn't going to win long hoofs down the field, he doesn't run the channels and he's not going to come deep and hold the ball up.

How many teams play with out and out poachers nowadays? Not many to be honest. Manchester Utd got rid of one (Ruud VN) and became a far better team because of it. They went for players like Tevez, Rooney, Berbatov and Saha who could score goals aswell as do other jobs.

Owen has to offer more than goals if he is going to be our front man, especially in our formation. You can't just play off the striker as a lone front man.

It is going to be very hard to accommodate him if we sign him in my opinion, that's one thing I'd be worried about if we where to sign him.
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Agree with a lot of that mate, but not sure Saha does as much as you think.

Owen a goal poacher simple as its his strength. im not so sure he doesnt do anything else, his deep lying and link up game has come on a lot since hes had to rely on his pace less less IMO, but hes never going to be renowned for it.

But at the end of the day he scores goals which is the buissness end of the game if he does nothing for 90 mins and bangs one in then its job done IMO, Saha is quite similar in terms of overall contribution, he just scores different goals. Theres no point having an AJ chasing down everything unless it ends up in the back of the net.
 

Michael Owen will turn his back on Everton - and join his former Liverpool strike partner Emile Heskey at Aston Villa. The 29-year-old will reject the chance to sign for the Toffees, the team he supported as a boy, because of his links to Anfield. Owen's contract with Newcastle has expired and, as reported in People Sport on January 25, he will slip quietly out of St James' Park. The forward is prepared to take a 50 per cent cut in his £ 100,000-plus weekly wage to end his four years of misery on Tyneside. This alerted Everton boss David Moyes, who put together a £ 50,000-a-week package for Owen and was confident that he would get his man. However, a source close to Owen told People Sport: "Michael is fully aware that Everton are interested. "But he made his name with Liverpool and joining their great rivals is something he feels uncomfortable about." Moving to Villa will also be an easier commute from his home in Cheshire. Owen used a helicopter to commute to training at Newcastle. Manchester City's interest has cooled, but Martin O'Neill is ready to partner Owen with Heskey at Villa Park. There will be no tears shed on Tyneside as Owen's four-year stint in a black and white shirt cost a staggering £45m - and produced only 30 goals

http://www.people.co.uk/sport/football/tm_headline=michael-owen-on-his-way-to-the-villa%26method=full%26objectid=21421533%26siteid=93463-name_page.html
 
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Michael Owen will turn his back on Everton - and join his former Liverpool strike partner Emile Heskey at Aston Villa. The 29-year-old will reject the chance to sign for the Toffees, the team he supported as a boy, because of his links to Anfield. Owen's contract with Newcastle has expired and, as reported in People Sport on January 25, he will slip quietly out of St James' Park. The forward is prepared to take a 50 per cent cut in his £ 100,000-plus weekly wage to end his four years of misery on Tyneside. This alerted Everton boss David Moyes, who put together a £ 50,000-a-week package for Owen and was confident that he would get his man. However, a source close to Owen told People Sport: "Michael is fully aware that Everton are interested. "But he made his name with Liverpool and joining their great rivals is something he feels uncomfortable about." Moving to Villa will also be an easier commute from his home in Cheshire. Owen used a helicopter to commute to training at Newcastle. Manchester City's interest has cooled, but Martin O'Neill is ready to partner Owen with Heskey at Villa Park. There will be no tears shed on Tyneside as Owen's four-year stint in a black and white shirt cost a staggering £45m - and produced only 30 goals

http://www.people.co.uk/sport/football/tm_headline=michael-owen-on-his-way-to-the-villa%26method=full%26objectid=21421533%26siteid=93463-name_page.html
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:yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

Great news if true
 



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