Must of turned you down then to sign for us.

It was his father who made him sign for Liverpool I think, which is understandable as when he was a ten they would have been the best team around, but that was sometime ago.

Luke log's on to RAWK to tell all his Shankly munich chanting sons.

Yeah yeah

To be honest it's the first I had heard of it and I had read a couple of his books.

Isn't that against the AUP? *

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As a previous poster stated, it was on sky sports news the other day, why would I make it up?

Owen 29%
Berbatov 20%
Torres 18%
Ronaldo 15%
Gerrard 16%
Rooney 14%

Those figures are pretty close to what it was, I know the top 3 were correct. Now calm down and stop getting excited.

He was also the top scorer in La Liga by goals/minutes played. sourceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Owen

[iOwen moved to Real Madrid for £8 million in mid-2004 but was frequently used as a substitute. In spite of this, he scored 13 goals in La Liga and had the season's highest ratio of goals scored to number of minutes played. [/i

But TBH it's a qualification similar to Liverpool's "50 reasons to be happy despite not winning the title when we should have."

In itself the signing of Owen has lots of justification. But compared to the expectation of practically every MUFC supporter before the transfer window this is a seriously underwhelming signing.

I wasn't suggesting that you had made it up, and I'm not getting excited. All I asked for was the source and some justification. So it's Sky Sports - hardly the Bible of sporting statistics is it? Ronaldo 15%?

The figure quoted is specious nonsense. What period does it cover? How many were deflections off his àrse? What does that work out at £ per goal? How many days did he spend at the racecourse? What is his goals per helicopter hours ratio? Or his goals to distraught Geordies quotient?

The fact is that, in your usual blinkered fashion, you have jumped on that statistic purely because he has joined United. Anywhere else you would have pooh-poohed it.

I have no axe to grind with either United or Liverpool, just the attitude of some supporters who behave as if they actually play for the team, or think they're a 'better' supporter because they follow a/the top team. That really is beyond the pale.

No wonder fergie signed him

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"where it not for an unhappy spell at real and 2 injury scares at newcastle he'd be spoken in the same breath as torres and Ronaldo"

LOL

I don't know about signing him, but after seeing the "Brand values", "current sponsor family" and "global appeal" I hope someone shoots the ****.

It makes me puke when stupid marketing fools from clubs talk about brand values, but seeing it about a player is even worse.