It Isn’t Michael Owen’s Fault – Again!
Michael Owen has taken to Twitter yet again to explain how it is everybody else’s fault and not his.
As you can see from his tweets, he is pointing the finger at the Newcastle United hierarchy this time.
Newcastle fans, following my Football Focus interview, plenty of you tweeting me saying you don’t blame me for getting injured but for
— michael owen (@themichaelowen) March 23, 2013
leaving when we got relegated. Despite the club saying they did, they didn’t ever offer me a new contract despite them putting it in the — michael owen (@themichaelowen) March 23, 2013
press that they did. How could they when they had just been relegated? It would have been financial suicide. I’ve seen it a million times, a — michael owen (@themichaelowen) March 23, 2013
club will blatantly lie to their fans to take the moral high ground leaving the player with no leg to stand on. I’ve taken the stick for
— michael owen (@themichaelowen) March 23, 2013
years which is fine but you really don’t know half of it. All will be revealed one day.
— michael owen (@themichaelowen) March 23, 2013
He may well be right when he says he was never offered a new contract but it is his comment about how if they had it would have been ‘financial suicide’ that intrigues me.
So why would it have been financial suicide Michael?
Well because not for one second would you have held your hands up and said that seen as you’d got us relegated you would have done everything possible to get us back up, including a big drop in pay to show how much you cared….
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