Robbie Fowler going to Liverpool

[Rod Paradise]

By all accounts it has been detected VERY early and although they postponed the op yesterday she should have it today and they reckon it is a formality.
I hope she recovers as do all Bluenoses because she really has worked wonders for us financially, turned the club into profit in an incredibly short space of time.

Yes she's been impressive.

Heskey now has a real striker to compare himself to - if he can't learn from Sutton he'll never learn.

[Nem]

Under Ferguson, Wenger, Benitez or Mourinho he would have been amazing.

Jol as well .

He is your childhood hero, so your views are somewhat tarnished. Fowler was good in the mid 90's, during his "peak years" he lost heart, gained weight and took drugs. I agree that he was a good striker, but he wasn't/isn't in the world class category, which Owen is. Houllier liked the big/little striker combination that meant either Heskey and Owen and if Owen was injured Fowler would get a game. Obviously, my views on Heskey is that he is a useless sack of shit, but he won more balls in the air than Fowler(for Owen to run onto) and he played better with Owen than Fowler. It's very similar to the situation at Spurs with Keane and Defoe.

I can't see Keane singing a new contract at Spurs (which runs out in the summer) I would play Defoe in front of Keane every game, but they have dropped him. The Spurs board/Jol think that by playing Keane they are trying to entice him into signing a new contract by saying " look you're No1 striker" but Keane knows that Defoe is number one and he is actually playing for a transfer, not trying to cement his place as 1st choice at Spurs.

Roll on the summer and Dirk Kuyt

1 Fowler never took drugs.He actually said in a interview that some one in his family died from drug abuse,which affected him deeply and has never used them.I hope your not refering to the snorting the line goal celebration.

2 Fowler is not world class? Owen is?..Now I  dont know you Nemesis,i dont know if you ever played foot ball , or how much you watch it., so I dont know where you understanding of football comes from.
But...Fowler was world class.The most natural goal scorer of his generation.He has the kind of natural timing that comes along every 20 years.And he was what he was being a slow fucker, somehting that makes his achievements even more remarkable.

Owen is not world class.never has been, never will be.His finishing skills come from hours on the training pitch,trying to improve.He is a manufactured finisher(a bit like beckham,another grinder,altho beckham was world class on the right wing at Man u), anyone who saw Owen is his early days could see this.Owen has 2 things going for him,his mental focus and his speed.Without his speed he would be nothing.In fact every time owen gets the ball out side the box and has to "play  real" football i feel embarrased for him.VanBasten was world class,owen is no where near that level.

Are you a Liverpool fan?

[mex]

Are we missing the fact that Fowler cost nothing?
 Also how much do you think Fowler helped develop Owen?
Fowler on the bench gives some good options.
Owen not world class? so in that respect neither was Gary Liniker, he couldn't 'play football' but get the ball to him infront of goal and ther was a damm good chance you knew where it was going. World class is all relative to position and player type
do we want Owen to be able to 'play football' outside the box?,
NFW i'd rather see him getting goals.
 Owen turns 1/2 chances into Goals, true there are more total strikers like Henry, but they are rare animals.

Owen scores Goals in an England shirt fact, give him players like Rooney, Gerrard around him and he will always score goals for England

Why is Owen bashing so popular these days.

[Nem]

Why is Owen bashing so popular these days.

The Owen bashers are all jealous Scousers, still bitter because Owen snubbed Liverpool and went to Real Madrid.

As for Owen not being world class is just laughable. Unless Owen gets injured he will become Engalnds leading goalscorer by a country mile.  He is also a former European Footballer of the year, so if that doesn't make him world class, what does?

Owen scores 1 goal every 0.52 games

Shearer is 1 goal every 0.50

Henry is 1 goal every 0.49

Nistlerooy 1 goal every 0.60 games

Shevchenko 1 goal every 0.49 games

Ronaldo 1 goal in 0.49 games

[Longy]

IMO owen is a world class player. He has scored at the highest level consistently (international football) and would be a massive miss if he did not make the world cup.

As for him only playing box this is a ridiculous arguement (a) as said he is a striker and therefore being good in the box is his job, (b) I must have being seeing things when he scored against Argentina and numerous other goals by breaking the offside trap. Also wasn't Fowler's main skill playing in the box and his ability to finish.

Fowler never proved whether his world class or not at his peak in the early 90's. A smattering of England apperances and has never played in the champions league. He certainly has never been world class since he moved from Liverpool.

[The Baron]

Ok,

I'm not bitter about Owen. He IS world class and I do think he's our best out and out goalscorer and will easily break the all time England record.

All I'm saying is Fowler COULD have been better. I'm not saying he is, but he easily could have been.

[mystery721]

fowler and crouch up front, with cisse ready to come off the bench if needed.....AHHHHHHH  every defence is running scared...........NOT

gl in trying to keep that trophy. that u won by fluke (unless u think garcias shot was over the line, like every other muppet liverpool fan)

[The Baron]

fowler and crouch up front, with cisse ready to come off the bench if needed.....AHHHHHHH  every defence is running scared...........NOT

gl in trying to keep that trophy. that u won by fluke (unless u think garcias shot was over the line, like every other muppet liverpool fan)

We won it five times, we won it five tiiiiiimmmeess, in Istanbul, we won it five times!

[mystery721]

bet365 are offering 12/1 that neville kisses his badge against liverpool in the fa cup......lol

ive heard 2/1 on liverpool beating man utd, i find this a very short price for a team that hasnt beat us in 85 years

surly it should be at least 50/1

[scoobleydoobley]

ok ok ok stop it... I admit it....i hate Owen.Houlliers favouratism for Owen ruined Robbie.Took all his confidence away before making him move from his boyhood club. I hate him.For me Robbie represents the under dog hero and ill always love him for it.Im not gay.But that little midget ruined my hero!!!!!!!!!

http://chipandaprayer.blogspot.com/

[Indestructable]

having watched him at City over recent years I have to say he hasn't been great. Maybe at liverpool he will have the motivation to get going again. What ever the right or wrongs, good luck to him.

In the meantime, let's welcome the new messiah Georgios Samaras.
 

[The Baron]

bet365 are offering 12/1 that neville kisses his badge against liverpool in the fa cup......lol

ive heard 2/1 on liverpool beating man utd, i find this a very short price for a team that hasnt beat us in 85 years

surly it should be at least 50/1

85 years? Which sport are you talking about?

[scoobleydoobley]

the sport of being bought out and bankrupted by little funny looking americans.They are undefeated in that one.

[mystery721]

baron are u just a part time liverpool supporter??

liverpool havent beat us in the fa cup since 1921 m8........by my calculations thats 85 years (14 games)

we havent conceded in the last 12 fa cup games.......and i cant see crouch and co stopping us from making it 13 games

b4 u start laughing at people posts find out your teams history......... then u wont look so stupid

[Nem]

ok ok ok stop it... I admit it....i hate Owen.Houlliers favouratism for Owen ruined Robbie.Took all his confidence away before making him move from his boyhood club. I hate him.For me Robbie represents the under dog hero and ill always love him for it.Im not gay.But that little midget ruined my hero!!!!!!!!!

LOOOOL n1!