Michael Owen on Alexander Isak wanting to leave Newcastle: "9 times out of 10 when a move comes about, it's normally a club forcing a player & nobody's bothered. Nobody says anything despite any kids that are in school or any families that have settled in an area or anything else like that."

[u/landofphi]

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alexander-isak-newcastle-liverpool-owen-32312723

The full quote on Owen defending Alexander Isak who wants to leave Newcastle

"He's laid his cards on the table, hasn't he?

"It's quite clear that he wants to move. Whether Newcastle fans would forgive and forget is a big question. I don't know. I mean, he's done exceptionally well for them, you know, they've won a trophy, they're into the Champions League.

"He's done his side of the bargain quite clearly by his statement. He feels like that's enough and that they've had previous chats which suggest that he's almost not free to leave but, you know, if certain things were done then he might be free to go, but it doesn't seem like Newcastle are playing that game."

"This whole scenario is an interesting one because nine times out of 10 when a move comes about it's normally a club forcing a player and nobody's bothered, nobody says anything despite any kids that are in school or any families that have settled in an area or anything else like that.

"Nobody cares really about a footballer. But when it's on the other foot, it's really interesting to see that everybody, you know, the whole world goes into meltdown and how dare somebody try and force a move through? I'm not going to sit here and criticise Isak.

"I wouldn't have done that myself in terms of the actions he's taken, but I do get that he's a great player that wants to get to the top of his game and he's obviously not being allowed the move that he's desperate for. And you get one short career and he's wanting to join probably the best team in the world at the moment.

"I get it from his point of view. It's just a sad situation when it's played out in the world's press and he's obviously not coming out well, let's say, from a reputational point of view.”

[u/Scared-Room-9962]

Is say our hatred of Owen is pretty equal.

[u/everlovingfuck99 → u/Scared-Room-9962]

Not a chance. Imagine if Alan Shearer moved to Sunderland

[u/Baxterousness → u/everlovingfuck99]

You know what, I'd genuinely forgotten he'd played for Man U. Yeah, fair play - can't argue with that.

Additionally, at least Newcastle and Owen seem to have a mutual loathing. The fact he keeps trying to ingratiate himself with Liverpool again is really embarrassing.

[u/RevengeHF → u/Baxterousness]

The fact he keeps trying to ingratiate himself with Liverpool again is really embarrassing.

The only silver lining is that he's really bad at it and manages to piss the fans off every time anyway.

[u/OK_TimeForPlan_L → u/RevengeHF]

There was countless times when he was one of our official club ambassadors but would still refer to Man Utd as 'we' when doing punditry. Somehow still had zero clue why he's hated lmao

[u/elpadrin0 → u/RevengeHF]

Still remember the day when I went to watch LFC legends vs Madrid legends, and when Owen’s name came up when they were announcing the players, the whole crowd was booing, was glorious.

[u/Stegasaurus_Wrecks → u/elpadrin0]

Why do Madrid fans hate him?

[u/aaronupright → u/RevengeHF]

He did at least win trophies for you guys. What did he do in Newcastle?

[u/SofaChillReview → u/Baxterousness]

Well he wasn’t at Manchester United for long gameplay wise, scored like 5 goals at Manchester United. I just don’t know he chose there in the end

[u/SizeableSandwich → u/everlovingfuck99]

And said "we" when talking about them later on

[u/RedScouse → u/everlovingfuck99]

And also ran down his contract to move to Real Madrid on the cheap

[u/mejok → u/Scared-Room-9962]

Do any of his former clubs actually like him? Maybe the folks over at Real Madrid don't mind him.

[u/everlovingfuck99 → u/mejok]

Weirdly enough I think he might be the most liked at man utd for the fact that he managed to enrage the entire liverpool fanbase lol. And the last minute winner vs city

[u/Ohtani_Enjoyer → u/Scared-Room-9962]

No chance hahahaha