No-shame Owen expecting Red hot reception

By Max Munton On · 18 Comments · In LFC News

Former Liverpool striker Michael Owen says he knows to expect a volatile atmosphere when he returns to the club on Sunday (25th October) in Manchester Utd colours.

Owen, who left the Reds in the summer of 2004 when Rafa Benitez took over, signed Utd in the summer and scored in their 2-1 victory over Bolton on Saturday.

“I am human,” Owen said. “I would prefer people to sit down and recognise what you did for them and for the team in years gone past.

“But I am pretty realistic as well and now that I am playing for their arch rivals….I am not holding my breath, put it that way.”

Then the prat has the cheek to suggest he’s at Manchester Utd as a breadwinner for his family – as if he’s on the minimum wage.

He added, “People talk about loyalty in football. It is easy for a football supporter to preach about that.

“As a father, brother and son, there is no-one more loyal than me. But when you are a player, you are not a fan. I have got to earn a living, provide for my family.

“It is a job opportunity, just like anyone else’s work.”

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  • gg

    Sound like a poor TRATOR excusing to us!!!Shut up!!!

  • gg

    Sound like a poor TRATOR excusing to us!!!Shut up!!!

  • KarimMB

    Please stop giving interviews and making comments…it was bad enough when he deserted us for Real (although winning the Champions League the following season whilst he was sitting on the bench was a nice way to respond) and then for him to join Newcastle on his return was also disappointing, although by that point i wasn’t too bothered…but when he joined scum this summer it all changed…by joining them he confirmed what we all suspected when he was playing for us – simply that he wasn’t Liverpool thru and thru ala Fowler etc…but then to rub it in, he had to come out with his “I have always wanted to play for scum”…which was followed soon after with “Scum are the biggest team in the world”…and he just hasn’t stopped since…and now he wants us to focus on what he did for us during his time at Anfield!?!? Lol…is he really that stupid? If joining scum wasn’t betrayal enough, you have added to that by your stupid comments..perhaps I could have forgiven him for joining that team considering no other big teams showed any interest…but its what he has said since that has really pissed me off…perhaps the young lad with the beach ball can make amends this weekend and smack that ball straight into st. judas’s face.

  • KarimMB

    Please stop giving interviews and making comments…it was bad enough when he deserted us for Real (although winning the Champions League the following season whilst he was sitting on the bench was a nice way to respond) and then for him to join Newcastle on his return was also disappointing, although by that point i wasn’t too bothered…but when he joined scum this summer it all changed…by joining them he confirmed what we all suspected when he was playing for us – simply that he wasn’t Liverpool thru and thru ala Fowler etc…but then to rub it in, he had to come out with his “I have always wanted to play for scum”…which was followed soon after with “Scum are the biggest team in the world”…and he just hasn’t stopped since…and now he wants us to focus on what he did for us during his time at Anfield!?!? Lol…is he really that stupid? If joining scum wasn’t betrayal enough, you have added to that by your stupid comments..perhaps I could have forgiven him for joining that team considering no other big teams showed any interest…but its what he has said since that has really pissed me off…perhaps the young lad with the beach ball can make amends this weekend and smack that ball straight into st. judas’s face.

  • Aishah

    no-shame owen?… it should be backwards… SHAME-ON OWEN… or SHAME-ON U, OWEN…

  • Aishah

    no-shame owen?… it should be backwards… SHAME-ON OWEN… or SHAME-ON U, OWEN…

  • scottishscouser

    “It is easy for a football supporter to preach about that.”

    Yes it is Michael! A supporter pays a huge chunk of their earnings to help pay your wages. Lets get it right, you went to Utd to be shoe-horned into a potential title winning side. When for the past 4 years you’ve done nowt to earn it.

    If you were a league 1 or 2 player than maybe you could give that quote above, they earn realistic wages and have nowt to fall back on in many cases.

    I’ve been fairly neutral in my views about him moving to Utd, but them quotes have got my goat big style. To say he is doing it to provide for his family is a joke! Does he think his family would have gone beneath the poverty line had he moved to Hull or Wolves.

    I’ve lost any respect I had for him.

    In a way I hope on Sat, we just show him indifference. It’l keep us out the headlines for the wrong reasons.

    How dare he equate his move to Man U

  • scottishscouser

    “It is easy for a football supporter to preach about that.”

    Yes it is Michael! A supporter pays a huge chunk of their earnings to help pay your wages. Lets get it right, you went to Utd to be shoe-horned into a potential title winning side. When for the past 4 years you’ve done nowt to earn it.

    If you were a league 1 or 2 player than maybe you could give that quote above, they earn realistic wages and have nowt to fall back on in many cases.

    I’ve been fairly neutral in my views about him moving to Utd, but them quotes have got my goat big style. To say he is doing it to provide for his family is a joke! Does he think his family would have gone beneath the poverty line had he moved to Hull or Wolves.

    I’ve lost any respect I had for him.

    In a way I hope on Sat, we just show him indifference. It’l keep us out the headlines for the wrong reasons.

    How dare he equate his move to Man U

  • inthedoghouse

    Like a big weasely thing trying to weasel his way out of his REAL reason for moving to ManUre. To get an England call up. Not much chance with Rooney, Defoe, Crouch, Bent and Heskey in front of you by now

  • inthedoghouse

    Like a big weasely thing trying to weasel his way out of his REAL reason for moving to ManUre. To get an England call up. Not much chance with Rooney, Defoe, Crouch, Bent and Heskey in front of you by now

  • Tone

    I agree with the previous poster. To say that he’s gone to the scum for the ‘job opporunity’ to ‘support his family’ is nonsense.

    Even with his gambling habit, he’s still a wealthy lad. He could have gone and played for Havant and Waterlooville for the rest of his career and still lived like a king.

    The shit talking is the biggest insult yet and like the previous poster I’ve lost the tiny shred of respect I ever had for him.

    Mercenary, glory hunting traitor.

  • Tone

    I agree with the previous poster. To say that he’s gone to the scum for the ‘job opporunity’ to ‘support his family’ is nonsense.

    Even with his gambling habit, he’s still a wealthy lad. He could have gone and played for Havant and Waterlooville for the rest of his career and still lived like a king.

    The shit talking is the biggest insult yet and like the previous poster I’ve lost the tiny shred of respect I ever had for him.

    Mercenary, glory hunting traitor.

  • gg

    Owen you are body of lies!!!!!!!!!!!Shut up!!!!
    How can you face your former club!!!!!!!!!Shame on you!!!!nonsense!!!

  • gg

    Owen you are body of lies!!!!!!!!!!!Shut up!!!!
    How can you face your former club!!!!!!!!!Shame on you!!!!nonsense!!!

  • davverboy

    having watched owen since he was a kid, i find it hard to hate the lad. he did some amazing things for us. he has made bad decisions, going to madrid probably set him and his family up for life, but from a fans perspective it was a bad move. i truely believe he wanted to return to the reds, but politics got in the way. when he was with the geordies i still wanted him to do well. now hes with the mancs, the lowest of the low, i just cannot find any more excuses for him. to see him in a manc shirt makes me sad and mad.

  • davverboy

    having watched owen since he was a kid, i find it hard to hate the lad. he did some amazing things for us. he has made bad decisions, going to madrid probably set him and his family up for life, but from a fans perspective it was a bad move. i truely believe he wanted to return to the reds, but politics got in the way. when he was with the geordies i still wanted him to do well. now hes with the mancs, the lowest of the low, i just cannot find any more excuses for him. to see him in a manc shirt makes me sad and mad.

  • afaris

    you will be receiving stick from the fans,but not because you’re playing for them..its because you’re kissing their arse..”biggest club in the world”!?shame on you owen

  • afaris

    you will be receiving stick from the fans,but not because you’re playing for them..its because you’re kissing their arse..”biggest club in the world”!?shame on you owen