Owen To United? Worst Joke Of The Summer

Not sure this is as crazy as you might think. With Berba and Rooney as starters any new striker would have to accept a regular role on the bench or at least heavy rotation. You also don't want a player that is going to limit the development of to very good prospects in Welbeck and Macheda. With Owens injuries and professinalism he we would be accepting of this role. As far as being a hitman, the stats don't lie, he's one of the most efficient striker in the league in terms of shots to goals - and lets not forget that as well as being played out of position, newcasle were battling relegation. He knows he could never demand what he was earning at newcastle. If he was on a performance based contract with a £40K basic and £10K for appearances and goals he'd either be getting paid less than Djemba-Djemba was to do nothing or he'd be earning £100k a week to score hatricks. If it didn't work out some crazy turkish team would still be willing to pay £1M for him next season and we'd recover the wages. I'd rather see a proven englishman with a dodgy leg playing an effective bit part role than pay £30M+ for an aguero, fabiano or huntelaar who may well be just as useless in england as michael owen has the potential to be. We have nothing to lose but a bit of pride if it goes wrong, but everything to gain. Berba and Rooney are happy as starters and Macheda and Welbeck don't see their chances limited too much. Having said that, I still want us to take a punt on Marcus Berg!

his wages would only be £40k, and signing him would mean more time on the pitch for rooney and berbatov as owen wouldnt expect to start everygame and he also gets injured :| i think this a gamble i wouldnt mind us taking

I can see this one stunning a few but making thousands guffaw!

TLOZ - a 'fit' Michael Owen? Is it possible to use those words in a sentence together!?? Berbatov might not score loads but he offers so much more in all other areas.

Owen is 1/3 to join United on sky bet. Have the bookies got some insider knowledge? With those odds they seem pretty certain! Worst case scenario is that he comes in gets injured and doesn't play. We still have four other strikers. As longs as the others stay fit, we have nothing to worry about.

personally i dont think its a bad signing. he will be a bit-part player at the start and then maybe get his fitness back up and playing reguarly. If we can get him on a pay as you play contract i think its a great signing.

Nice, sell Ronaldo and buy and Valencia then allow Tevez to leave and get Owen on free. I like what Red Nose is thinking. I could see it now with 15mins left, the game is tied 0-0 against Hull city but United have a free kick outside the box, Valencia steps up OOooo and a miss. That’s ok Red nose has a super sub, a player that will give it his all, a player that will die for the fans, a player that wont give up till the final whistle HERE COMES TEV.... O SORRY OWENNNNN. Owen's first touch and his INJURED wow I did not see that coming. lol not the same is it.

LOL someone sounds a little frustrated. O and I’m sure Ronaldo and Tevez didn't turn a lot of draws into wins for you guys last season. Don't worry you will get my point in a few months. Idiot hahahah

I'll be interested to see what you'll be saying if Owen and Valencia (who I think would be two very good signings) are both pivotal to your season next year.

LOL sure sound frustrated. Its ok, its ok everything is going to be alright buddy just chill. But like I said you will get my point in a few months when your team starts tying ***** teams and Owen is being stretched of the field.

Klutch, you seem pretty confident that time will prove you right, and in all honesty without a crystal ball I cannot say that you are wrong. But IF we do sign him, personally I can't see what we have to lose by giving him a chance. Yes we could give a chance to an aguero, a fabiano or a nilmar but if they got injured or just turned out to be ****, I can think of a few million things we would have lost. Veron, Forlan, Shevchenko, Morientes, Jo - Premier league history is littered with big names and big fees who didn't exactly set the world on fire, despite the amount of money that was spent. This is a no lose situation for us (assuming he has a pay as you play style contract) and though I may be overly optimistic, and he might turn out to be the worst signing ever (how he could be worse than djemba I don't know), if Sir Alex thinks he's good enough to help us win the premier league; then I'm gonna agree - Fergies recent record in that competition leads me to believe that he has a good idea what it takes to win it.

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Apparently it is going to happen Zae.

Welcome Michael Owen to the theatre of dreams,hopefully u will be able to revive your fortunes and prove everyone wrong.

Worst joke of the summer? Thats ur club :p

Congratulations. If you can accept a former Liverpool player, a player who was the hero of millions of Liverpool fans, he's a good signing. It says a lot about Michael Owen, though. To join Man Utd after spending so many years at Liverpool is disrespectful, to say the least.

Not really interested in discussing the relative merits of signing Michael Owen. What is interesting about this whole saga is that United are not being seriously linked with any big money moves, but rather signing free's and sniffing around the Ligue1 bargain basement. I'm not saying that you might not surprise us all with a huge signing (Valencia was no surprise), but at the moment your lack of transfer spending must have more than a few of your fans worried, surely? The ronaldo cash was supposed to be arriving in one lump sum from RM and Fergie was alleged to be getting the bulk of it to spend on replacements for the winker and Tevez. Doesn't look like that's true at the moment though, so ask yourself the question - What have the Glazers done with the cash?

I don't think the Glazers have done anything with the cash fifthcolumnblue. United have spent alot of money on anderson, nani, ljajic and tosic, berbatov and hargreaves and (as we have always done) we are going to give them their chance to make the grade. Liverpool might be happy to get rid of dossena, degen, riera, robbie keane within a season and chelsea might be happy to go a similar way with bosingwa, boulahrouz, sidwell etc but we don't have to try and buy the title - we invest in players and don't immediately go for the quick fix. Fergie has no reason to blow £100M on big names just because nobody outside of old trafford has faith in the players we already have. I have no idea who you expect us to sign but as far as I can see there aren't many players out there who are guaranteed to bring success along with their hefty price tags. If we're honest, the reason United are so successful is that they don't have cavalier attitude with money. Whilst chelsea can throw £30M at shevchenko, watch him bomb, give him away for free and buy another - United usually suffer with their mistakes - djemba, kleberson, bellion, Veron and maybe in the future Berba. But United have never bought star power (it usually fails when we try) - we buy potential at bargain basement prices and make our own stars. (yes I'm aware that we paid £30M for Rooney and Rio but their success in the last three years makes them bargains for me!)

Tuscan, why would we want to get rid of Riera? He as fantastic in the early part of the season and although he petered out a bit, he will be a big part of any title challenge.

aamir i agree, i cant believe that after the whole moving to madrid on the last day of the transfer season and leaving us no time to sign anyone wasn't enough then going to newcastle instead of coming back home and then i was starting to get over all that he goes and does this NO FECKING CHANCE now....... i agree about not expecting him to rot at a team like hull but he also had offers from villa and even everton i could liver with him moving to everton but manure the bloke is dead to me and now will NEVER EVERRRR be a liverpool legend his just a player that once played for a club that was too good for him..... when im at anfield next season it wont be a cheer i give him you have more chance of me spitting at him just to show the amount of respect he has shown us liverpool fans....

tuscan - you know as well as anyone else that if a player wants to go to a team he will get his way..... we did make a bid for him but newcastle topped it up by 4-6mill extra but if he wanted to come back he could of...... i have no problem with man u going after any player they want but owen should know how disrespectful this move is to us..... just remember a certain paul ince the only difference is that owen WAS a hero,icon and legend too many fans but he just virtually spat in our faces with this one as i said we forgave him for so much but this.......NEVER NOT IN MILLION YEARS.........

why not owen? I think this is going through... after all, he's on a free so we can't really lose. I do think this will happen and i'm not too sure it isn't a masterstroke - certainly for nothing!

Zae wait till things are official before you spout your mouth off, try dealing with facts!!!!!!!!!!

What does this say to the likes of Rooney and Berbatov that their only experienced competition for a place is Michael Owen, Berbatov wasn't the most motivated player with Tevez challenging for a place, players need realistic competition to keep them on their toes, why did we let Saha go if we're going to bring in the bloke who kept him company in the hospital.

If owen is fit he provides much more competition than tevez because -HE SCORE GOALS!!!!

Now you will have two Owens in the treatment room! Heard you are keen to take Robben also? :p

Very good, Tuscan. You classify as a moron. Owen will spend more time in your treatment table than that Bayern player you lot bought. Out-Ronaldo Tevez. In- Valencia, Owen. WOW!

Pipe down JT, your lot have some work to do in the transfer market before you go criticising our signings.