Owen’s Pitiful Wages Mean Good Business For United

yaeh! scott is finally giving up on his doomsday clock! the optimism is back, welcome back scott!;)

When I was younger, when I started to watch football Owen was one of the best English footballer (with Beckham they were the best players in National Team). I didn’t know anything about rivalry between Manchester United and Liverpool and I thought he’s really great striker and now, when I know more about football, I don’t want to call Owen a cunt or a bastard. It’s weird, he played in Liverpool some seasons, scored a lot of goals and now he’s going to play in their biggest rivals, but there were many players like him (Busby, Incey etc.). He didn’t say anything bad about United, he respects Ferguson, Ferguson respects him, media don’t say too much about him. And finally he’s an Englishman!

Owen will be determined to show his best football, because he wants to play in South Africa next year. That’s his last chance to prove he’s still good in football, to show some people they shouldn’t write him off. He’ll sit on the bench, will come on the pitch to change the result. It’s going to be great transfer by Ferguson. Sheringham was bought when he was 31 and that wasn’t bad transfer, was it? Larsson was great player for us and he played only three months to help us, the same will be with Owen, but he’s going to play at Old Trafford a little bit longer.

I’m really happy.

I always remembered him as a good footaller and amazing player for England, especially in Japan, World Cup 2002. Now, he’s going to play in my team

Nicely pointed out about Tevez’s goal record, yet if we’d spent 25 million on him, on top of the 10 million already paid for him, and then went on to pay him a basic wage of 100,000 a week, numpteys would be declaring it a good deal! The same numpteys who are laughing at us( if they don’t support us), or crying at us( if they do support us) for buying Owen for nothing and paying him whats basically a pittance. Christ judging by the reaction in the media you’d think we’d signed Jimmy fucking Greaves! He’s only 29!
And yeah he was a Kop hero, but he was also a boyhood Everton fan, so that makes it a little easier to swallow, at least he too will have grew up hating the dipping cunts like we did.

Spot on, Scott. And he won’t complain about being on the bench.

if owen staysfit this could be one of the greatest top flight deals in premiership history

To be honest, Henrik Larson done very little in a United shirt and aded to sahas injuries. Whilst larson was here, saha hardly played and was left to sit on the bench, suddenly Larson goes and Saha is called upon again, but without recent match experience, no wonder he got injured.

You cant argue with the Owen signing. You cant call it a last gasp free desperate signing as some media have, as its day 3 of the transfer window, not 3 minutes before it closes. In Valencia and Owen we have added to our squad, especially given Ronaldo and Tevez has gone. Thats £16 million spent so far. We dopnt need to panic buy and pay over the odds on players, we can sit back and get targets that want to come to united and will benefit the squad. I dont think spending will stop this summer, although we might not bring in a forward. David Silva would be one of my choices and I stated that I’d have Owen ahead of Hunterlaar.

Owen may start as our third choice striker, but if he can summon his old strength and form, then as much as i hate to say, he is actually capable of being any team’s first choice striker.

Like somebody said before in previous topic, even Rooney the world class can learn from this guy. And this is what makes me excited the most.

Well, this is a massive development. Another team without trophy last season spent over 200m signing all the big names, while the champions of England and losing finalist of CL signed a free-transfer, fading striker.

I think i am having a turbulent of emotions and thought inside.

should have been: GOOD LUCK UNITED!
(& was a must to make it correct … )
so GOOD LUCK UNITED!

jetelinho I agree, Forlan has gone on to prove himself to be one of the best strikers in the world – the ABU papers in the UK were just desperate to slag him.
I like the Owen signing a lot, there are only a few players in the world that we can build a future on and when one becomes available we will be in for him. In the mean time the squad was to thin upfront, we need 5 strikers and can’t rely so heavyly on the youngsters for back up. It makes a lot of sense and the young players should be able to learn from him in training too.
Let the soccerball entertainment franchises, the Real Globetroters and Citeh Wanabees have there fun in June and July. We are a true football team we’ll have our fun when the season starts.

Can’t wait till i’m on pitiful wages too!

Tevez is a bitter bitter cunt. He’s made a fool out of himself since April. I’ll bet all those fans chanting for him to be signed up feel silly. No class. He’ll have to get past Wazza before he can get to Fergie. I’m sure Wazza will be happy to rip Carlos’ throat out if he tries anything stupid.

Think that Owen is a decent signing for Man United. I think that united need a 3rd striker like Owen, because Owen will be happy to do his part in the title run. I don’t want a repeat of last season where we had 3 strikers (Rooney, Tevez and Berbatov)with 1st team calibre. Moreover, we have Macheda and Welback. And this is a good opportunity for them to progress.

hi all
i’ve come to acept that this summer most of us won’t be happy as we not getting the players we’ve been linked with… but when you think about it then its wise to stay away from big name signing strikers like benzema and aguero- i’ve never known us to buy stars with big egos- we make them lol
But look at what we got —rooney, berbagod and two fantastic prospects so owen is a gr8 signing as he cost fuck all and is proven.. between him welbeck and macheda i can see them getting the 30+ goals tevez and ronnie got us last season and thats not asking for too much
the only place i can see us spending 20+mil is the midfield which was proven to be weak, aging and lacklusture a number of times last season
so our big name signing is gonna be someone we not expecting or maybe another bargain (riquelme) for a short term scholes replacement? idream of a cm like iniesta or fabregas then we would be complete
well whoever we get I’ll get behind them including our second adopted scouser

if owen was at his prime that would have been the perfect replacement for ronaldo , but the owen of now is no good for us , maybe if hes lucky he’ll play 10 games for us !! for god’s sake we sold the best player the premiership has ever seen and with 80 millions we could have got a good replacement. but no we go for the cheapest players there are on the market !! why ?? after the humilation of the champions league final i tought things could change , but no we are going backwards … we cant get any better cos the one’s we bought aren’t better of what we already have and the ones we have are a year older ( scholes, giggs, neville, vds ) . hopefully good sense prevail and we get an aguero or an ibrahimovich ( i know im dreaming ) , cos im not seeing us the best team in england let alone in europe with this squad we have .

great signing. he’s the sort of cover we want for our striking partner and the fact that we are United is one of the reason why he grabbed this deal, even if it meant half the wages of what the other clubs offer (50k from Everton?).

he’s gonna shine and perhaps get the 10-15 goals to help compensate the loss of Ronaldo. All hopes that he can keep his injury away from him

We need to remember that he is 29, we got him on a free on a 2 year contract which will make him 31 when it runs out. He is more than happy to accept the personal terms when another club, possibly Villa or Everton, would of paid him 50k a week basic regardless of whether he was a regular or not. If he gets 20 goals I will be more than happy, providing Rooney and Berba get the same output too. And if Valencia can get some decent deliveries in, we should get a good quota of goals next season. Roll on next season!

“I’d like to think that everyone was quite surprised with my medical,” said Owen. “I passed my medical and I’ve obviously passed them before, and my fitness is high. A lot is made out of it but I certainly don’t feel like I’m injury prone.”

well, not qiute sure about it anway i really hope i’ll eat the humble pie come may..

A bit of a gamble – but, really, more of a flutter. The wages are, essentially, negligible UNLESS he does the business and then whatever he’ll get will be payment-for-results. If he’s a complete flop then “that’s life”.

My own opinion has been stated on this forum for a long time now – UTD have needed a fox-in-the-box, Inzaghi type of player for those situations when the opposition park-the-bus inside their penalty area and try to eke out a draw. And, expect the Burnleys, Birminghams, Sunderlands, Boltons, Wigans, Blackburns and so on to do just that, home and away. Last year UTD’s success was built on gaining almost total points from the matches with these DeadMenWalking; to win the EPL, that’s essential. So, adding up those two factors, Owen looks like a shrewd piece of business IF he can cut the mustard. Who knows ? we’ll just have to wait and see how it turns out.

I agree with those who think that another striker is on the way, too – not a “starlet” like Alexis Sanchez or Sergio Aguero but, more likely, a bulldozer kind of guy who can do the dirty work up-front in those games in which UTD have total possession but no goals. I would expect a lot of you would choke on bringing in someone like Emile Heskey but he would be the kind of man-mountain I’m thinking of – Kenwyne Jones would be a younger, stronger, faster, taller version.

What’s at issue here is that UTD are, in a sense, caught between two stools with a wonderful first-string pairing of Rooney/Berbatov and then a big gap behind them – Macheda/Welbeck are great prospects but I think it’s totally unrealistic to put too much pressure on their shoulders. Perhaps in two, three years these doubts would be irrelevant but, in the meantime, UTD have to live and play in TheNow.

Losing Ronaldo was always going to be a HUGE, HUGE loss; “replacing” CR with Benzema would have been great but that didn’t happen. So, this coming season is going to be a kind of “bridging” time between the Ronaldo/Tevez whirligig and TheNextUTD which will, hopefully, take full advantage of the promise of Macheda/Welbeck.

So, what SAF has done with signing Michael Owen is to look at that problem without delusions that those two promising kids are anything more than promising kids. Perhaps they will have improved so much that Owen won’t get a kick this coming year – but, if not, then what ? That’s why this was a shrewd, clever stop-gap measure.

And, don’t forget, that SAF still has the best part of 100,000,000 to spend on other issues – dominant midfielder ? dominant keeper ? On a fantasy-note, adding Daniele di Rossi and Gigi Buffon to the present squad would make it rather formidable. And, of course, the return of Owen Hargreaves would make the squad really, really formidable. One lives in hope.

Treason of the highest order.

Michael Owen. The once great Liverpool striker gone to see out his days warming the Man Utd bench, selling his soul and turning his back and just about everybody who ever supported him in the vain hope that he might actually get to play for England again.

I genuinely can’t ever see the Man Utd fans ‘really’ taking him to their hearts, it just won’t happen, and once the obvious delight of ‘pissing us off’ about the whole episode wear off (which it admittedly has, and which it soon will) you’ll realise that you’re left with a self-centred, shallow little prick who’s best days are long behind him.

Liverpool One – You make me laugh you Scousers, don’t you boo him everytime he comes to Anfield? You are right though I don’t think United fans will “take him to heart” but if he stays fit and gets us 10-15 goals next season then everyone will be happy. If he gets the winner infront of the Kop end everyone will be ecstatic. Don’t think for one minute he will be warming the bench pal, he will be used as a squad player like most of United’s players albeit a bit less.

well.. dunno… if it were Rafa who signed him, would you call it “a good business” too?

“Liverpool One – You make me laugh you Scousers, don’t you boo him everytime he comes to Anfield?”

It was quite partisan actually on the subject of Owen, a lot of people at Anfield were very pissed off with Owen with the way he strung out his final season, dithered about contracts and basically took the piss. Some of that is also a bit of frustration that Liverpool at the time didn’t have the balls to tell Owen to ‘Sign your contract or fuck off!”

But for every fan that boo’d him there was another that would applaud him for the goals he scored and the contributon he made, I was one of the latter.

So for me persoally I find his move to you quite sickening.