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http://www.skybet.com/skybet?action=GoEvType&id=10003041&aff=685&SL_FB_330

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 Man. Utd evens  Tottenham 14/1
Everton 3/1    West Ham 16/1
Hull 9/1            Stoke 33/1
Liverpool 11/1    Portsmouth 40/1
Aston Villa 11/1    Arsenal 40/1
Man. City 12/1    Middlesboro 50/1
Newcastle 14/1    Chelsea 66/1

I haven't even heard him linked with Manure        :dontask:

Nor had I till this.
Not sure about it tbh, have to be on a per match/per goal pay basis but he'll get plenty chances to do what he does best

Owen will join man u imo.

I think on the right contract it could be a great signing. Hes gonna get so many more chances and be playing with quality be an interesting move.

4/9 on to go man u

must be a gamble on the exchanges driving the price down IMO

no chance will he be at man u

If he goes to man u the low opinion many Liverpool fans have of him will hit rock bottom.

If he remains fit, he'll score goals for anyone.  Big IF though.

what? if hes odds on there must be something to this, every chance he'll be at man u

Lay that price on the exchanges and profit then imo.

heard earlier on talksport that adebayor is a target for man u, is there any strength in this rumour? what do manu and arsenal fans think of that?

would if i could afford to lose but i cant so i wont

never gamble with money i cant afford to lose no matter what the odds

Why would Man Utd want somebody who has been rusty for a few years anyway? Should buy back Saha in my opinion, proved his worth since leaving

joke obv?

I just hope Adybayor goes TBH and I dont even care where, although I would be surprised if it was to Man Utd that wanted him surely they cant afford to have 2 lazy bastards like Berbertov and Adybayor up front.

As for Owen, I wouldnt mind seeing him at Arsenal, like someone said in this thread he will score goals and we could do with a natural finisher even if it was for just half a season.

You prat, was hoping to get some abuse before saying I was joking! :D

save your money iron....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8131801.stm

not that i would lay it but there is no market on betfair

driving home tonight i heard on radio 5 that the price is 5-2 which is massive compared to where it was this evening

skybet pulls the market overnight would be intrested in seeing the price in the morning

but i still cant see it

Done deal according to sky sports news.

Good signing IMO, would have liked to see Chelsea pick him up but nvm.

Good signing if he can stay fit. 

He'll sure get a nice welcome back at Anfield though :D.

Owen under going medical at Old Traffod
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_5412939,00.html


(same shit as George`s link my bad)

Owen undergoing a medical.

Wonder if he's as fit/young/healthy as his brochure says.

Dan,

What's with the downer on Owen ?

I thought most Liverpool fans still rated him and would have had him back on a freebie, but Rafa has never been keen.

When he left for Real, was it on bad terms then ?

On a free transfer, it seems good business for whoever gets him, which looks like us at the moment.

He's a mercenary.  Half the Liverpool fans disowned him long ago, the other half will probably join in with those sentiments now.

Despite his great goalscoring record for us, he was never Liverpool's Michael Owen - always England's Owen.  The adoration that was given to Rush, Aldo, Fowler and now Torres was never quite there for Owen.  His move to Real was fairly sour one, compounded by his supposed eagerness to rejoin us before going to the barcodes.

I think most do rate him as a player, and when he's fit and on form, he's a top class goalscorer.  If man u get him on a pay-per-play basis (which I think it will be?), then it's a shrewd signing.  Not sure he's what you need, but Fergie generally knows what he's doing.

He was on 120k @ Newcastle, what ive read reckons 40k @ Man U + mega bonus for goals appearances etc.

+1

I like him turning up in Manchester driven in a BMW despite being sponsored by Jaguar!

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/jim-white/article/9652/

Jimmy White makes sense, me thinks.


About him being a mercenary..lol very hard at that. The guy is looking for a job, should he not go to ManU because he once played for Liverpool? Or because he left to go to Real, the biggest club in the world at that time? Liverpool didn't want him back after he came back from Real and they don't want him now. Owen is doing the best thing for his career ATM..teaming up with Rooney at ManU is the best way for him to get in the frame for the England job again.

Fair play to him for taking a big pay cut and not going to Stoke or some other club where he might make more money (not taking into account bonusses and all that) but going to a team where he can achieve something.

S dI love how the figure he earnt at Newcastle keeps going up and up.

I'll be really really interested to see how he gets on, performance and attitude. I think it's a bit strange because to get back in the England team and break that record (which I think is far and away his top ambition) he'll have to both score and play regularly at club level. I haven't seen much at all that would suggest he'll be doing that at Man U. In terms of pace for a PL player (which sadly is more valuable than actually being able to play football now) he is average at best - perhaps some confidence (or lack of, in his body and game).

I don't feel like I've had value out of my £40 'Owen 10' top, without evening getting to the £38m he cost Newcastle.

GG Michael, enjoy the gambling spin downs.

“We will sort something out amicably next summer,” said Owen. “I won’t just up and leave on a Bosman. I have the rest of this season and all next still left on my existing contract but talks have already started on a new one. Inevitably, they are complex though and don’t get done in just a week. But I certainly see myself at Liverpool next year. Why not? I’m not in football for the money. And that is largely what it means when players sit out their contracts and go for free.”

Not sure you ever get value out of a £40 replica shirt, whichever team, whichever player's name goes on it

Agreed.  Retro shirts FTW.

However, if you get a Vennegoor of Hesselink shirt, then you're at least getting your money's worth in lettering.

I believe the correct way to respond is...

"I lol'd hard at this"

but on reflection, isn't it 10p a letter?

I think its £1 a letter and £4 a number!

So his name and shirt likely to cost you £64 ish!

well all i can say is fergie must be suffering from oldtimers cause that is a huge mistake IMHO owen will be lucky if he starts in 10 league games next season

By the sounds of it, if he plays 10 games, he gets paid for ten games.

Seems good business.

Fergie ussually doesn't get proven wrong...and I'll be surprised if this doesn't turn out to be a clever bit of business.

shocked ,fergie came in for him, there must be no top players available and he is desperate to stenghthen the squad, Ronaldo gone, Tevez as good as gone,Owen in,lol

i think its a great buy, his goal return everywhere is outstanding, just if he stays fit.

hope he doesnt get splinters...

not much hope of him getting near the bench to get the splinters

just read a story that Man Utd are trying to coax Darren Anderton out of retirement on a pay as you play scheme...seems they arent worried about there medical bill...

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,12040_5414181,0.html
(http://img.skysports.com/09/07/218x298/MichaelOwen_2325092.jpg)

Hate to admit it, but agree with above. Best chance of Owen getting a prem medal and of going to the World Cup.

kit is awful

Veron
Taibi
Bosnich
Poborsky
Jordi Cruyff
Prunier
Djemba Djemba
Kleberson
Nani

Need i go on?

Ferguson often gets it wrong in the transfer market, he is no Wenger. Having said that I quite like this signing and think it is a pretty good risk to take, given the possible rewards.

Nothing to lose imo- he's on pay as your play. If he's shite we'll ship him out but I've often heard people say that an average striker will score more goals at United simply due the chances they'd get.

Mercenary or not, he has a reason to succeed with the world cup coming up.

Going to bump thread at end of season and petition for it to be renamed the epic Ironstein failathon

lol everywhere? where? In league football his record is poor. <20 goals every season

not first or last

Englands top goalscorer in 2006 World Cup wasn't he?

goals to games ratio

I agree on his choice now at this stage because let's be honest, who else is goin to ofer him CL football? I wont hold it against him.

His move to Real isn't a huge problem for me either but it was the timing of the move and the way he went about getting it that annoyed me a little. He basically left us with no move for anyone else.

His move to Newcastle is what really made me dislike he guy. He knew he could have held out for a move to Liverpool by calling Madrid's bluff and at very worst having to spend one more season at Real, where he was getting semi-cult status with some quarters of their fans a la Guti, but England came first and knowing Newcastle under Souness would be shocking he still went there asically killing off four years of his career. He openly told everyone before the move that they weren't his first choice then tried to insult both sets of fans by claiming it's where he wanted to be.

As a player I really rate him (30 odd goals in 65 odd games for Newcastle tells it's own story) and in terms of self belief he's a borderline cocky, in a good way, when it comes to his own ability. The guy is just a bit of a c*ck though.

He'll do a good job for Utd if fit but he'd have not fitted in to our style of play any more without his electric pace.

Oh yeah, I'd actually forgotten about that..that was bad.