by bigmick » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:53 am
I hear what people think about Owen, and to a large extent I agree with them (certainly the bit about the comparison with Fowler). These are unuaual circumstances though, where Owen could potentially be picked up for the best part of feck all, and where he might just be prepared to swallow on the wages.
Now there's a lot of if's in there without a doubt, but if we could pick him up for say 3-4 million and the wages were sensible I'd definately be up for it. If we don't sign Owen then it's my contention that we will need to sign at least one striker anyway, and I just don't see us picking anybody up of comparable quality for that sort of fee.
Now obviously if Newcastle come back and say "why aye mon we want 7 million quid for him like" then I'd feck it off in an instant. Similarly if Owen wanted 100 grand a week I'd pull the plug as well. At the right price though, we'd be crazy not to consider it IMHO.
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".