Going going groin

[Y1]

For what it is worth, I think that Fergie does not lose in anyway by playing Owen. Not knowing the contract details, I would assume that Owen's pay is linked to being on the field or on the bench - performance related.

Now that Owen is definitely out for a few weeks, Owen earns nothing, Fergie wins.
Should Owen score and win the match - Fergie wins again.

For those interested: Owen's history of injuries:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...en-breaks-Sportsmail-looks-strikers-woes.html

 

[Farkmaster]

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For what it is worth, I think that Fergie does not lose in anyway by playing Owen. Not knowing the contract details, I would assume that Owen's pay is linked to being on the field or on the bench - performance related.

Now that Owen is definitely out for a few weeks, Owen earns nothing, Fergie wins.
Should Owen score and win the match - Fergie wins again.

For those interested: Owen's history of injuries:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...en-breaks-Sportsmail-looks-strikers-woes.html


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That list almost makes me feel sorry for him.

 

[Y1]

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[quote author=Y1 link=topic=36198.msg955733#msg955733 date=1254443249]
For what it is worth, I think that Fergie does not lose in anyway by playing Owen. Not knowing the contract details, I would assume that Owen's pay is linked to being on the field or on the bench - performance related.

Now that Owen is definitely out for a few weeks, Owen earns nothing, Fergie wins.
Should Owen score and win the match - Fergie wins again.

For those interested: Owen's history of injuries:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...en-breaks-Sportsmail-looks-strikers-woes.html


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That list almost makes me feel sorry for him.
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Sorry for the injuries yes, but he does not gain my sympathy for being delusional. Denial of not being injury prone is a spin that has gone too far. Does anyone has a record of how may games/minutes he had actually played in the last 3 years?

 

[Farkmaster]

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Sorry for the injuries yes, but he does not gain my sympathy for being delusional. Denial of not being injury prone is a spin that has gone too far. Does anyone has a record of how may games/minutes he had actually played in the last 3 years?
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A salesman wouldn't say "this car is a shot, piece of shit, lemon", why would the Michael Owen camp when inviting buyers?

 

[Y1]

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[quote author=Y1 link=topic=36198.msg955783#msg955783 date=1254462256]
Sorry for the injuries yes, but he does not gain my sympathy for being delusional. Denial of not being injury prone is a spin that has gone too far. Does anyone has a record of how may games/minutes he had actually played in the last 3 years?
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A salesman wouldn't say "this car is a shot, piece of shit, lemon", why would the Michael Owen camp when inviting buyers?
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LOL, yes agreed.

 

[gkmacca]

Ginsoak today: "Michael's injury is not as bad we first thought. We just attached a bit of precaution to it'. Speak ENGLISH, you sozzled old fool.

 

[spider-Neil]

mich burst onto the scene when he was a teen and then become the person the team most relied on. so he was asked to do a man's job as a boy with the expectation of the entire club on his shoulders. when he got injuried he was given time to fully recover, also his body was still growing. compare his career path with gerrard, who was allowed to fully recover from injuried and growing pains.

the truth of the matter if owen was introduced to the club right now (as a 17 year old) he wouldn't have his injury nightmare because, because there would an established striker ahead of him and he wouldn't be the most important person in the team so he would be given time to properly heal.

look at agger, if we didn't have skrtel on the books I'm sure he would have been trust straight into the first team after his operation.

 

[mark1975]

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“Michael Owen’s so called ‘injury prone’ status [is] a nonsense!†wrote Green, whose CV boasts of his previous successes with, wait for it, Dean Ashton, Kieron Dyer and Craig Bellamy.[/quote]

Haha.

And on another note, Fergie escapes the type of criticism in the media yet again that Rafa would have no doubt got were he to play someone who was clearly running an injury risk.
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I agree, but I think it'd be different if they weren't top of the league.

Also, you will have to accept that Ferguson gets special treatment, because he is perceived by any neutral, and the sporting press, to be a living legend of the game and one of its, if not its best manager.
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That doesn't make him infallible though, it should make them target him more when he fucks up.

It makes me laugh, if he was English the English press would always be gunning for him.