MICHAEL OWEN BROCHURE

[SammyAftershave]

Not sure if was in his 'LFC Global Ambassadorial Role' or a personal attempt at world domination but erm....WTF?

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/1433551/ex-footballer-owen-boxer-pacquiao-to-issue-tokens

[General Dryness]

Not sure if was in his 'LFC Global Ambassadorial Role' or a personal attempt at world domination but erm....WTF?

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/1433551/ex-footballer-owen-boxer-pacquiao-to-issue-tokens

 

Seems fitting that someone who has spent their whole life obsessed by the pursuit of money should end up actually becoming money.

[Jennings]

"Former Manchester United and Real Madrid striker..."

[Lario]

Really wish the club would have more balls and get rid of his association with us.

 

It turned my stomach to see him line up for the legends yesterday. Would rather see David Speedie up there.

[Herp McDerp]

Not sure if was in his 'LFC Global Ambassadorial Role' or a personal attempt at world domination but erm....WTF?

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/1433551/ex-footballer-owen-boxer-pacquiao-to-issue-tokens

 

Greedy money grubbing tit in money grubbing shocker. Didn't see that one coming.

[magicrat]

"Former Manchester United and Real Madrid striker..."

 

Quite glad it didn't mention Liverpool tbh

[Vincent Vega]

Talking a lot of shite here on BT on why he joined the Manc cunts. The rat.

[manwiththestick]

BT making him squirm for his money there.

[Special K]

BT making him squirm for his money there.

How so?

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Cunt and always be a cunt.

 

That's why we don't like you.

 

Shite pundit too.

[Numero Veinticinco]

I just don't like him. He played for United after professing his love for Liverpool. He went to Madrid after saying he was going to sign a new contract. I understand why, it's a career, yada yada. I don't care, I'm a fan and he played for United. Kiss my ringer, fucko.

[Elite]

He'd still sell his granny for a pound.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

So he finds it's hurtful when Liverpool fans call him out for being a cunt?

 

Awwwwwwwwwwww.

 

Poor Michael. Such a victim in all of this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snide cunt.

[Tony Moanero]

I can’t be arsed disliking him. I’d rather just remember his FA Cup Final goals, etc.

[Guest]

He's a right scoundrel but he hasn't played for Liverpool for almost 15 years. The rotter.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[Stickman]

An extract from the new "blockbuster" Rebbot I don't think this will end well for Wor Michael

 

Just a thought Michael but maybe you shouldn't have left Liverpool in the first place

 

Michael Owen opens up on Newcastle spell and why he still regrets Magpies transfer

 

Michael Owen moved from Real Madrid to Newcastle for a club record £16.8million in 2005 - but it quickly turned sour

 

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.

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/michael-owen-opens-up-newcastle-19171658

[Davelfc]

Signed for the mancs, fuck him!

[Guest]

I thought this had been bumped because he is launching his own cryptocurrency. So is Manny Pacqiaou, who is calling his the Pac.

[Bob]

Who is seriously buying another Michael Owen book?

[Davelfc]

40 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

Who is seriously buying another Michael Owen book?

Was wandering through Chester the other week, I saw a bookshop with posters announcing he was going to be signing his book on that Saturday. I thought considering the promises of singing that he broke it would be almost a miracle if he showed up. 

 

[Stickman]

57 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

Who is seriously buying another Michael Owen book?

 

 

Not sure why he should expect anyone to buy it when the cheeky cunt said this a few years back

 

"Michael Owen has confessed he has never read a book"

[Guest]

30 minutes ago, Champions of Europe said:

Was wandering through Chester the other week, I saw a bookshop with posters announcing he was going to be signing his book on that Saturday. I thought considering the promises of singing that he broke it would be almost a miracle if he showed up. 

 

I wonder if it is an option to not turn up to your own book signing? 

[Grinch]

I've more interest In watching the CBBC kid show he did again then ever reading his book. 

[The Guest]

He made a big mistake leaving and he followed it up with numerous mistakes after.  He’s desperate to be liked by us and wants that legend status that so many of our players have. He’s self entitled and comes through as it normally does in that excerpt.  The stuff about the fans thinking the club is bigger than it is etc could easily be turned on him as a player.  Past the age of 24 he was finished.  If you didn’t hate him after the Madrid/Newcastle issue then signing for the mancs was the final straw.

 

The honesty he talks about conveniently leaves out the England issue.  He always put England first.  He could have played hardball with Real but his biggest fear was not playing in Madrid and getting dropped by England for the World Cup.  The injury he then got playing for England that summer basically ended his career.