After joining Manchester United, Michael Owen was full of praise for the club and claimed that if he couldn’t finish his career here, he wouldn’t take a step down.
“As long as I’m wanted at a good level I will play on, but part of that is in my hands and part isn’t,” Owen said this time last year. “I’ll wait to see what the manager says on that. If it happens, great, we’ll talk about it. If not, I’ll try to stay at a high level. I wouldn’t drop out of the Premier League. I want to stay at the top level or look at other markets, but I have four children and they’re settled in school and that’s something to weigh up.”
Finally, after yet another disappointing injury for Owen thanks to injuries, United are releasing the striker at the end of the season. Owen has claimed he isn’t looking to retire though.
“I am only 32,” he said. “I might look a bit older than that but obviously looking at the likes of Scholesy and Giggsy it doesn’t half fill you with a lot of motivation and confidence that they are playing into their mid-to-late thirties and I still feel as if I am reasonably young. When I wake up my body feels good even though I have had a few injuries. I don’t wake up with sore joints or anything like that. At 32 I definitely owe it to myself to still have two or three years and hopefully play a bit more for somebody else.”
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I would’ve kept him for another season tbh, as 5th choice. Not costing us much, and when he does play he usually scores. Good for the younger players as well.
I hope this doesn’t mean we’re signing another striker though. Firstly that’d be a waste of the limited funds we have, there’s other areas that need strenghtening.
Secondly, I’d hate for the development of Welbeck and Chicharito (even Will Keane) to be stunted.
Will Keane 1-0!
Needs a good loan spell next season, promising future.
Wolves are waiting for you Michael. go fourth and finally take over Steve Bull
Apparently hazards been spotted at ot?
What sort of hazards were spotted at OT?
Thanks for everything Micheal. Great player. Reserves 1-0 up
The Dukes of Hazzard.
Keep your cool Tunni!
Tunniclife should have been off. PHEW. keep your head son.
mancdub
The Dukes of Hazard
Did they bring the car?
Were they being chased down by Sheriff Rosco and Boss Hogg?
Marca a spanish paper reporting the transfer of a french player. Funny journalism
Lets hope the lads get this one right..
and good bye Pogba..
Time for a Keane double!!
Mmmm Daisy Duke
That was close Jesse..
Vermajil is playing brilliant, so is Tunni
no hazard story in marca
Some of our build-up play is just BRILLIANT to watch in this game. My word.
That was good play..
Nice cross by Zeki but header just wide by Keane
I will be disappointed if Will Keane is not there on the tour bus this pre season..
Of course he had to go the club cant go getting a rep as a tired old club + he is not needed.Hoping Hernandez get’s his second wind and takes over as our leading scorer next season.
Look at the disappointment on the face of Petrucci after he got subbed..
The lad wanted to play on..
well done lad..
Hope we seal this one..
the sucker punch goal yet to come and i think it will be Brady who scores it..
Sparkz says:
“when he does play he usually scores.”
For the record, Owen has failed to score on 38 of the 51 occasions he played for Manchester United.
sorry to say it but good riddance…never did much apart from scoring that winner against Shitty….that alone got him another years contract…..
Michael Owen has ruled out a return to former club Liverpool as he still wants to play at the highest level
Michael Owen has been sidelined with yet another injury. Turns out the door hit his fucking arse on his way out of Manchester United.
SENIOR CUP CHAMPIONS HAHAHAHAHA!!!! BRILLIANT COUNTER ATTACK!!!
In old Hazard county Boss Hog had a problem Dasiy was so hot in those shorts boys can not stop touching themselves.
LMFAO Pitch Invasion.
fantastic hold up by Keane and fine finish from Giverin.
And look at that plastic cunts. invade the pitch.
classless as ever.
Fred the vidic lover
How are you mate..
good to see you posting again..
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Senior cup champs!!
well done reserves. United are back.
Lads hazard is a winger we have too many as it is and we can’t afford him anyway, he’s going to city.
Petrucci looked really good tonight IMO, well done to the boys.
And Fred – lol, what’s his record in games he started, rather than off the bench?
United fans were vocal too
Sparkz – 5 of his 17 goals were scored after coming off the bench.
So we beat the “ELITE blablahteam” again.
Well done!
Will Keane will join the 1st team next season. Looks a natural goalscorer.
Manchester reserves senior cup:
City 0 – 2 United.
Keane
Giverin – Great counter attack, Keane holding up well and Giverin makes a great run from his own half to seal the cup..
Well done lads,
Our kids win the reserve league, regional play off, national play off and Manchester senior cup..
Now just hope we win the Lancashire cup in the next season beginning..
Tunni, skipper Petrucci, Zeki, Sam, Giverin, Keane brothers, Brady, Lingard, wootton and rest others have been top class..
well done Warren Joyce..
The reserves have been brilliant all season, congrats..
Still will be the best in Manchester..
Champione Champione ole ole ole…
Manchester United!!
So I guess that dispells any thoughts that Mikey could be seen as something of a “super sub”.
Michael Owen 1 Steven Gerrard 0!!!!!
The futures bright, the futures red!
Well done to the reserves.
Pogba didn’t play like someone on their way out either, had a good game and Will Keane looks well ready for a few games for the first team.
Michael Owen:
Behaved himself. Allways a pro.
Most vital goals was the City one and the one in the Carling cup final. He deserved that trophy. More than the dippers could ever give him…
His goaøscoring is good if you look at the amount of time he played, not the number of games.
So I say: Thank you! You can now be proud to have worn the greatest shirt in the world Own!
Breakdown of Owen’s 17 goals for us:
Wigan (PL)
City (PL)
Barnsley (League Cup)
CSKA (CL)
Wolfsburg x3 (CL)
West Ham (PL)
Aston Villa (League Cup)
Scunthorpe x2 (League Cup)
Bolton (PL)
Southampton (FA Cup)
Blackpool (PL)
Leeds x2 (League Cup)
Aldershot (League Cup)
@Fred – Exactly my point mate, I don’t think he was a supersub.
I’m talking about when he started games. I think I’m right in saying his record is 17 goals in 18 starts? Pretty impressive IMO.
I know he played for Liverpool so there’s a natural dislike towards him (although tbh, he was one of the few Liverpool players that I used to admire)……but I think he gets a bit of a raw deal from Utd fans I suppose.
As I said, his goal record was really good. He never moaned about lack of game time. Fergie always said he was a good pro around the place. And he wasn’t really costing us much in terms of wages.
When I look at how people (rightly) praise Berba for his professionalism, and the fact that he’s never moaned….surely the same applies to Owen na? Especially when you consider the wages Berba was on in comparison!
Good. I hope he finds a club at a good level where he will play quite often.
@Sparkz
That’s because he was rarely fit. What did he have to complain about, lol? He even leapfrogged Berba for the Ch.League final squad after scoring one goal in 3 months. Good professional. I give him that. But I feel that he always sensed that he was lucky to be at UNited at this stage of his career.
Wouldn’t surprise me to see him go north to a club like Celtic. Less demanding league but still gets champions league football
@Costas – 09/10 he was generally fit until the Carling Cup final wasn’t he? But coz we always played 4-5-1 with Rooney up top he didn’t get many games. And when we did go 4-4-2 it was normally Rooney & Berba up top. But he didn’t complain.
I’ll agree with you that he was lucky – purely because that type of player doesn’t exist much at the highest level any more, particularly injury prone ones like him. RVN is an example, he spent the last few years at Hamburg and Malaga. So to be at a club like Utd was a “lucky” thing for him.
The Champions League final selection was an understandable decision, he was more suited to that opposition, and to that big game environment, than Berba (although personally I would’ve had Berba on the bench too, at the expense of Fletcher)
Sparkz – his scoring record is not so impressive when you look at the shite he was scoring against (Aldershot, Leeds, Scunthorpe, Southampton etc.) He only ever scored 2 important goals for us; the winner against City and the equaliser against Bolton. His other league goals were the fourth goal in a 5-0 rout of Wigan, the third goal in a 3-0 home win over West Ham and a goal the dead rubber against Blackpool.
He’s about as much use as a chocolate teapot these days and I’m delighted that he’s been shown the door.
I take that back, the goal in the Carling Cup final was important too. Sorry Mickey!
(Important if you like winning fourth rate trophies that is.)
@Sparkz
I think Owen understood his limitations though. You’re right about 09-10. I don’t think he got any serious injuries until the Carling Cup final. But he also rarely (if ever) completed 90 minutes on the pitch. Even when fit, he felt like a bit part player to me. That’s why I said he probably felt lucky to be at United at that point. Of course that’s my assumption. I could be wrong.
As for the Ch.League final, I guess I would have understood the decision if he actually came on. We were chasing the game for most of the 2nd half, Javier wasn’t having his best game, but Fergie never brought him on. I admit that after the Blackpool game I also wondered if he would be more suited for a spot on the bench compared to Berbatov. But since the striker on the bench was never going to play a part, I would have given it to Berbatov, personally.
Joking, of course.
Owen’s a veritable League Cup Legend though, it must be said. Like when he scored to help the scousers beat us in 2003. Nice one Mike!
I don’t think Fergie planned for the striker on the bench to “never play a part” lol.
The way the game panned out, another striker wouldn’t have made a difference, it was lost in midfield. Had we been piling on pressure, I’m sure Owen would’ve come on to sniff out a chance.
As I said, I’d have had both of them on the bench. But if there was only room for one….look at it from the Gaffer’s point of view. Owen was more suited to that style of game (Barca’s pressing game would’ve nullifed Berba…..Owen, like Chicharito could at least get in behind their high line). And Owen was more likely to perform in a big game.
Uh-oh, red rag to a bull that last comment…
whose gonna be our new #7?
Hopefully Nani. Seems like the best option to me.
Shinji-san.
You’d think Valencia or Nani but Valencia isn’t commercial enough for number 7 (you can laugh but its taken into account)..and Nani probably won’t want the whole Ronaldo comparison. Hopefully these rumours about him going are rubbish btw.
Sparkz, there is no doubt that the commercial aspect of unveiling a new #7 is almost as important as giving it to a player who won’t be intimidated by the honour. The latter is clearly the reason that Tony V wasn’t given the shirt in 2009, imho.
Kagawa fits the #7 profile in terms of talent and commercial potential.
Or Hazard of course, who we’re signing tomorrow for £45m.
our #7s have all been entertainers over the years. should go to nani on that basis imo. the rumour about contract stalls are just rubbish imo. not too long back nani said he was almost done finalizing new contract and was really looking forward to more years at united.
There’s another Portuguese that could wear the number 7 shirt…
Costas – I smell what you’re cooking.
Come home, number 7 http://www.11freunde.de/img/fotostrecken/1315230087_original.jpg
@Fred
thanks for that wonder winning goal vs citeh at OT…it always the greatest derby win ever…
personally i like no.7 be given to valencia…he deserve it…
Goodbye owen. It was shame u couldnt do much more at United.
Thanks for memories.
UTD! UTD! UTD!
Denise Williams, a penny for your thoughts…
Cheers Michael
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhcXWWBDOZY
Michael Owen is a great striker and its really unfortunate that he has become one of them players whose career has been halted by injuries. He has done relatively well at United,and although he may have spent more time in the doctors office then on the pitch,he still has a decent record at United.
He is 32 years of age which presumebly means that the next club he signs for will probably be his last stint as a footballer. The reality is that Owen is not fit enough to play week in week out,but he can still be a usefull weapon as a substitute who can come on in the last 20minutes or so and get you goals. I don’t see him moving to a big club but I could see Owen joining perhaps a Tottenham Hotspurs or a club like Sunderland or Fulham where he could do a job.
Denise is considering her options, while Michael considers his.
Fred don’t bring me into you anti Owen tirade. Personally I stand by everything I have said as I do not think Fergie gave Owen or Berbatov a fair go. However Owen and Berbatov both behaved in a very professional way and never moaned or threw their toys out of the pram unlike some footballers have. Perhaps you would prefer it if they had. However it is clear you simply never accepted Owen because he played for Liverpool. That to me is a bit pathetic as who they once played for should never come into it. I wish both Owen and Berbatov all the very best as I happen to admire their professionalism.