Re: Manchester United Supporters Thread.
You're talking about a player who spent his youth growing up with Liverpool, the club and the fans, the whole Liverpool mentality. He then went on to play a good few years with us before fucking us off because he wanted to win trophies and earn more money. He let his contract run right down so Liverpool got fuck-all from Owen leaving and left us in a far worse situation than he could've helped.
Then he wants to leave Madrid, he wants to come back to us and Rafa tells him he's too expensive now as we'd just sold him for £8m and paying £16m so soon after isn't good so to wait for the next window and we'd go in then. Nope, Owen doesn't care about club football much, it's England he's after. So he goes to Newcastle despite them not being his first choice, all about the England shirt here.
So we've got a player who's grown up as a Liverpool player and should know that Liverpool and Man Utd don't really get on much, he lives with Liverpool fans and knows the feelings between both sets of fans. He leaves Liverpool under a cloud and many fans aren't happy with how he left but remember the goals he gave us. Then he turns us down to go to a team where he was far less likely to win anything (the reason he left Liverpool apparantly) just to "save" his England career.
And now we've heard he wanted to come back to Liverpool this time, and he'd have taken less wages but, and good on Rafa really, we had none of it, so he's gone to United instead.
So maybe now you'll understand a bit more if a Utd player had acted the same way. Owen doesn't give a shit about Liverpool or the fans even having spent so long at the club and growing up with the fans. It's a COMPLETELY different scenario to Cantona, or Ince or whoever else you want to try and compare to. Look at it/him for what it is, he's shown no loyalty at all to the club that gave him his chance and developed him into the player he is.
And that's that, Owen has pissed on his Liverpool career and memories with most Liverpool fans because he's fucked us over three times now and joining our biggest rivals despite spending most of his career at Liverpool is the final nail I'm afraid.
Maybe if you looked at the bigger picture you'd understand, but you wont. You only want to see things in your rosy tinted glasses and believe that Owen is going to be a quality striker for you, where if I said to you last season that you'd have Owen instead of Tevez you'd have all laughed. When Owen played for us for all those years, I bet you all hated his guts? Probably booed him? Yet now you're all over him and all is forgiven?
Try looking outside of your little world and you MIGHT just see things how other fans see things
I'm not expecting any of you to actually read this and come back saying "Oh, fair enough, you make some good points there. I understand now". Far from it, I expect nothing to change and you still won't understand.
