It’s hard to measure what the general reaction from United fans has been to news that Michael Owen looks to be on his way. Whilst I would rather we didn’t, to put it mildly, I do trust the manager. I think he’s a horrible little money-grabbing cunt and don’t want him anywhere near the club, but if Sir Alex thinks it’s worth a punt, then we have to accept it. Although the idea of seeing him in our shirt makes me feel ill.
Regardless, it’s interesting to see what the vermin make of it all. Take a look at their haven, RAWK.
- Owen to the Mancs, what a twat. Can you imagine his stupid little grin on his face as this time next year he has a Premier league winners medal and possibly a Champions League medal, or definately a decent run in the competition he left us for (only for it to backfire spectaculary). I hope he fails the medical, it’s going to be a tough one by all accounts.
- Why the shock like there was any doubt he would be that much of a twat.
- Berbatov, Rooney, Wellback & Machedia are the only forwards at the club and Ferguson has got to find the 30 odd goals that Ronaldo and Tevez provided last year. When fit, Owen scored 1 in 2 games for a woeful Newcastle team, imagine how many chances he will get at Old Trafford with all their possesion?
- He really is a horrible little shit.
- I am not surprised he’s jumped at the chance to join Man U, but I am a little surprised they actually want him.
- Great move for him. He’ll do well there, unfortunately. Shrewd signing, would of been happy if we had done that bit of business.
- Don’t go MO. Anywhere but there, Chelsea, Arsenal, even Everton, just please don’t go to those bastards! People said Michael Jackson dying was like losing a part of their childhood, if he signs for those bastards, I will have lost a part of my childhood, he was my first Liverpool “hero”, I had his name on my cream coloured shirt, when we’d go to get out haircut I’d ask for it “Short, like Owen”.
- We were getting excited at the prospect of Tevez joining us straight from Old Trafford. We should just shup up now. Good luck to him: hope he stays injury free as he must be hoping he will be first choice. Truth is, if I were him, I wouldn’t have done it, I would have chosen the option of Aston Villa, or being Top Dog at Hull.
- I bet you if Owen plays for Manchester United, and we dont sign Villa, Owen will score more goals than our second striker (not including Gerrard). He will get double figures comfortably for them.
- A really horrible little shit, any little bit of respect I had left for the prick has now evaporated like his England career (ha ha), he shat on us when Rafa came in at the very last minute, and now he’s trying to stick a massive two fingures up to us again. Horrible twat, hope we win everything next year and he spends the season either on the bench or preferably on the injury table
- Sweet mother of god, FUCKING HELL!
Does seeing how fucked off they are make the deal any more appealing to you?
Man Utd News 24/7
Berbatov, Rooney, Wellback & Machedia are the only forwards at the club
could be worse could just rely on bruno
Uniteds official site briefly reported that he had signed just now, only for the story to be removed minutes later. He must of injured himself trying to sign the contract, the lame crock of shit.
Shows how much he is still valued as a player by the fear Liverpool fans have of him scoring at Utd. They would take him back in a flash.
Seems like most are gutted. He must be worth signing just for that.
JimJones – lol, haven’t seen that and i was checking manutd.com minute ago, screenshot anyone?
yay ! stick it to the scousers . someone plz come up with a good chant for owen . and do include ‘stick it to the scousers’ in it
Its not worth signing him just to piss the scousers off. I hate scousers as much as the next guy, but if we start making decisions like this to just piss others off, we’re taking our eye off the ball, we’re the biggest club in the world for fcuks sake.
I dont want Owen, Id rather give game time to Macheda and Welbeck and help their development instead of giving Owen a jersey. He’s small, not that quick anymore, injury prone, a money grabber, more interested in horses, and a scouser. Apart from the fact he’s free, theres nothing appealing about the deal. And even that highlights how much of a joke it is…we sell Ronaldo for £80 million, then sniff around Ribery and Benzema, and then unveil Owen? Hardly shows our intent to stay on top of the world footballing tree. Still like others have said, Fergie knows best, and I’ll back whatever he decides, but my own opinion is Id rather bring back Davenport or Birtles…
Owen isnt a scouser, he’s from North Wales.
Tufty – He’s still a cunt
I woke up this morning hoping that the whole affair was a horrible dream, alas it wasn’t he is a player for hire with no morales but that sort of sums up the modern day footabller, please don’t give him the 7 shirt!!!!!!!!!!!
but he will be our Cunt in a few hours.
WE could have An all scouse front line kinda makes me sick
I’m still hoping the medical will prove a stumbling block. It’ll be like having Saha back but with less ability.
This could be a great deal for us in my opinion. He’s free – and I read he could be on 20,000 a week plus performance related bonuses – so we only pay for what we get out of him. He’s not got the ego to expect to start every game so he wouldn’t freeze Macheda and Wellbeck out of the picture. SAF has always been an admirer and this is, I think, a smart move. Buy proven international, European and Premier League quality on the cheap – he’s 29 and technically should be showing the form of his life if he’s not crocked. If he’s fit and plays regularly next season he would absolutely thrive off the service provided by valencia, rooney, berbatov and giggs/scholes. OK, he’s old but this isn’t done for a resale and, I doubt it’s got anything to do with shirt sales. This one is being done for the football team. It still makes me feel sick to imagine Owen in a United shirt though. Ugh.
When fit (and that’s the big question) he’s a proven goal scorer. He still got a very decent return goal wise even at Newcastle in a team that were complete bollocks. He’ll score goals ok and he’ll accept coming on from the bench with the occasional start against the lesser teams. It’s a win win situation for Sir Alex. And it’ll be good for Welbeck and Macheda to be around someone with that poachers touch.
Anyway even if it doesn’t work out Sir Alex will have someone to talk to about horse racing and Rooney can lose a shit load of money to Owen gambling as he has done in the past. Fuckin hell Owen must feel likes it Christmas day – the little bollocks.
Benzema to Owen wat the fcuk!
As I said yesterday we have already got an Owen who was good in Munich once and spends most of his time injured why do we need another?
If he signs it’ll take a fucking age to sink in. Infact I might not accept him till he scores against the dipperinos
This is a dark day indeed for football.
Fergie’s going to spend big, is what the Glazers said……
For fuck sake, this is making me feel sick. Piss poor signing.
I don’t see what everyone’s problem is!
It’s a no lose situation!
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on tests already
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I don’t know is it good?
Well there is luis fabiano in the lines.
It’s amazing Fergie has lasted in the job this long, when there are people who know so much better than him on here.
In SAF we trust, do you really think he’s going senile and doesn’t know what he’s doing? Or do you trust him to keep on winning trophies and building great teams?
Let’s give Owen the benefit of the doubt shall we?
Who said Owen is a replacement for missing out on Benzema? Fergie wants four strikers, he’s always said that.. Rooney, Berba, Owen and a new signing possibly..
You know… all this reminds me of the time a couple of years ago.
We sent Ruud packing and brought in just Tomasz Kuszczak, with Fergie saying he was happy with the squad. Look where we went from there!
I don’t like Owen, but really… we’re not losing too much out of the deal. Given his situation, I’m sure we’re beating him down to a not-so-high wage. And if its a pay-as-you-play contract and add the fact that he wants to get back into the England setup, as well as stick it back into a whole bunch of ppl… he might do pretty well.
Won’t tolerate any badge-kissing from him though!
Feel he should be a 3rd or 4th choice striker… but I think we’ll benefit from this.
Tufty, he’s still a sneaky little scouser. I dont like it at all. Hopefully he’ll fail his medical. He’ll be getting £20,000 basic for doing absolutely nothing, which will jump with games and goals. Thats £20,000 extra per week we could offer to a Benzema (how did we manage to miss that) or some other potential striker to improve any deals, and would be money better spent than giving it to Owen to invest in his fcuking horses. My gut feeling on this deal is that its wrong in a lot of ways…
serves us right for drowning out his speech with the tevez chants.. SAF is messin with our brains.. payback to all those ‘loyal’ supporters who showed their appreciation for what SAF has done for the club for nearly 25 year.. hes gonna enjoy this.. personally i just want to put my personal feelings about this runt aside and focus on the merits of this deal.. mainly him being free ad being offered peanuts to be a stop gap for danny n kiko to come through..
real madrid 200 mil +
man utd 0+ 16m
North Stand, My take mate was that Benzema always wanted to sign for the facists, he used us as bait to trigger an offer from Real, in my view he was never interested in a move to us, but Owen doesn’t remotely soften the blow.
We need to bring in a player of real calibre but the list of candidates is very small, but Fergie knows what he is doing.
Theres no one on here assuming we know more than Fergie, its the first thing we mention when we disagree with him that he knows best for the club (but its our right as United fans to disagree).
My humble opinion is that I wouldnt like to see this deal done, no one is saying Fergie is going senile, or doesnt know what he’s doing. The more I think about it, the more it just doesnt feel right.
If it goes through, I will see the positives in it, and if he scores, I’ll cheer, but I cant see myself taking to him too much.
willierednut
i dont know anything about benzema
except the 180 mins he played against united
and he name sounds like a that skin rash thing
nothing has ever made me think i have to watch this guy like the cantona of leeds the zezu of juvi fat ronaldo players that you just had to see
benzema is a name that got bounced around in the papers so much that you’d swear sir bobby charlton had found his mid 20′s form again
you know what owen can do
we tried to get him off real but would spend the overpriced bill
interested again in january which seemed to come to nothing but this might of been the out come
Micheal Owen is now one of our own it seems
so get chanting his name
I think he needs to get it out of his system like Blanc, he has always fancied the little dipper and feel for a free he is worth a punt.
Providing the medical goes ok i don’t think it will be too long before it is announced that Michael Owen is a Manchester United player.
If he stays fit,this could be some signing. Remember, he has a lot to prove with everyone saying he’s finished etc.
The lad will be revved up and ready to go. I bet he can’t believe his luck!…..Hull? Stoke?….or Manchester United???
Tough choice.
Personality wise – he’s a little shit, but he can still score a few, definetely worth a chance though.
What odds for top scorer next season?
Any one else feel dirty after reading the scum blog RAWk?
other valid points:
1. wont get in the way of the rooney n berba
2. unlike tevez, rooney can talk to him using speech
3. owens got alot to prove as he’l be desperate to get into the world cup squad.
4. if he gets out of line scholesy will aim at his oversized head during training
5. it would be priceless if he scored against the scouse.
6. we need dani n kiko to develop, not kun or benzema or luis fabiano.. those boys are our future.. unlike other targets owen wont stand in their way
7. owen is at carrington..deal with it
8. SAF > fans
I know Stephen, Benzema said last year he’d prefer a move to Madrid, its just the reports in the last few days saying the night before he signed for Madrid that we had the deal almost in the bag and let it slip. Id like to think that we’d have a good chance of keeping any player once they come in and see what the club is about (no Ronaldo comments please).
I hope Owen doesnt come, but if he does we’ll just move on. Its just that while teams like Madrid are making statements of intent, we seem to be doing the opposite. Any potential stars considering a move to either United or some other big English or Spanish club would hardly be dazzled by Owen being brought in.
Rooneys a scouser, but he’s a toffee, theres a difference. I wouldnt want Gerrard or Torres – it just wouldnt feel right, and I dont want Owen.
For those in support 4 words
in ferguson we trust
For those who are against a proven goal scorer who is injury prone(rooney) but is 100% fit and was at the end of last season and has takin special care over the summer with yoga(giggs) for the hamstrings and a personal trainer(scholes) then ive 4 words for you
get fucking over it
If Sir Alex believes Owen is a player we need,should we not trust him??
As Micky said,”It’s amazing Fergie has lasted in the job this long, when there are people who know so much better than him on here.
In SAF we trust, do you really think he’s going senile and doesn’t know what he’s doing? Or do you trust him to keep on winning trophies and building great teams?”.
Kony Said,July 3rd, 2009 @11:50………..
“other valid points:
2. unlike tevez, rooney can talk to him using speech”………………
Pure gold fella!!!
North Stand, yeah agree pal also like you there is a massive difference from a Toffee to being a true rat muncher, I simply could never sing Owens’s name at OT it simply won’t feel right, but we must have to get used to him being around because it will defintatly happen his knee was looked at last night.
North Stand,It’s your personal issue with him,but there are some positives that have already been listed.If he signs,I will support him as I support all our other players:fully.
I felt like this to a lesser degree when we signed Sheringham, I was and will never be a fan of his I felt he was a flash cockney twat, but he was in the side to do a job as long as Owen finds the net a few times, we win the odd pot and he gets on a plane to South Africa I suppose it will be a marriage of convenience.
But I can’t say I have to happy about it.
Just because Fergie is signing him doesn’t mean he’s going to be a class act. We all trust Fergie but he’s human and makes mistakes. 2 days ago nobody in their right mind wanted this washed up has been and now we’re odds on to sign him. I hope he plays out of his skin if he signs but having watched him last year I can’t see where he can pull his old form from.
im sure atleast he’ll end up scoring more goals than tevez did for us if he manages to stay fit…
as a 3rd striker hes not to bad especially as hes free
as long as hes not expecting to be a first team regular…
@GHTT We were chasing benzema we linked wiv em 4 two years. So are we now 2 believe owen was are backup, cheap option were did the other 64 million go uh i know the glaziers debt.
When we all take our emotional blinkers off we’ll see this as a great bit of business. Vintage Fergie! ( Larson / Sheringham)
“- Owen to the Mancs, what a twat. Can you imagine his stupid little grin on his face as this time next year he has a Premier league winners medal and possibly a Champions League medal,”
they already know we are going to win them both?
Northstand – I know what you mean but he is actually an Everton fan.
Willierednut – Do you honestly think the Glazer’s have said to Sir Alex he can’t have any money? He would walk mate, simple as.
King Eric, so was Carragher. Owen was a Scouse legend for a while, thats my problem. That and he’s a crock.
Dave Mack, take away our emotional blinkers, and theres not much left. United is 100% emotion for me, if you can remove that so easily on issues like this, thats fair enough, I cant.
Anyway, this is getting a bit out of hand. My point all along is simply that I dont think Owen is a good buy for us on a few levels. However if he does come to United, I’ll try make a positive out of it and we’ll move on.
owen to score an own goal in the first game
fuck me!! to see that cheeky little scouse cunt in OUR strip will turn me fucking green! it will take him to score at the kock end for me to even consider considering, thinkin the the dog is worthy of Manchester United. just remember his fukn lousy mates singin about OUR BABES!!
great shout dave mack
i wasn’t keen when i first heard, but now i’m hearing the details it worth a punt.
His record in a dire Newcastle team is a goal a game, that’s with always being injured. Lets face it, Newcastle are a team that suffers a lot of injuries, maybe it’s the weather or the training?!? Anway, if he plays 20 games and gets 10 goals, it has to be worth something. I think as a play to bring off the bench to get us a goal, he’s worth it.
OH,NO~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!
He’s a horrible little cunt, but if he is to wear our shirt then I’ll have to support him. But yes, the thought of donning the shirt of the greatest club in the world makes me wanna chunder. If he was to score the winner at Anfield this season, then I’ll go easy on him.
worth £20,000 a week just to rub the scousers up the wrong way, i’d be shocked if he passed a medical tho cos it wut b the longest he’s gone without injury for 3 yrs! the medical team found ruuds injury but nt hargo’s, this one cud go either way
Do we really fink this will upset the dippers?
Its not what you would expect from a club with big ambition. and a little embarrassing for us fans, why do we always have trouble getting some of the big names then settle sometimes for a lesser player. and why are we taking a quick fix instead of building again hope your right Alex but its hardly the future
we alredy have the future in place with wellbeck an kiko, if nothin else hopefully owen can teach them to be goal poachers cos we have none rite now
I reckon a lot of top players are looking elsewhere as they dont like the rotation system at OT. A lot of them expect to play every game, every week of the season. Sir Alex is unique in his approach. And a lotta big name players like to be the #1, and at OT there is nothing like that when it comes to strikers….
Other players like to be surrounded by only the best players in the world, and thats why this season they looking to Madrid. Forget the money for a sec. If you had a chance to be part of a squad like Madrid are forming, you would too find it hard to turn down…Unless you a ManU fan, then OT is the place you wanna be. And also, Sir Alex has never really gone for the best in the world. Its all about who he wants and the role they gonna play….
its a great signing
Worth every cent of his wage just to fuck them off. I have changed my mind.Sign him up Fergie.
Just reading the comments of the Scouse fans makes it worth signing Owen. Didn’t believe the stories yesterday but ya know so long as he stays fit enough to be good cover for Berba and Wazza I’m not too much against this. At the very least, given his alternatives, Owen shouldn’t moan like Tevez did about being the back up and if he’s fit he’ll score cos our we will make the chances. If we could fix Giggsy’s hamstrings I’m sure we can fix Owen’s. I tell ya if he turns out to be prolific I will laugh my ass off!
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/26/article-1101536-0316B55B0000044D-907_468x308.jpg
Are you guys going to have a welcome celebration for him like we did?
If he scored for us at anfield think id cum my pants