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[Santa]

after owen leaving we will find it hard to find a replacement, think about it who is gonna want to join a club that sells their best players. It doesnt exactly signal their ambition does it?

You are confused...Here we are being forced to sell Michael because he has taken us for a ride and been stalling on his contract extention for months now. He will be on Bosman come December this year. This is entirely different from having to sell a player to survive.

[Santa]

...and besides, Michael is no longer our best player. He is up there by reputation only. Heskey, Murphy, Diouf etc were not even close to be a good player, never mind our best players.

[columbia]

after owen leaving we will find it hard to find a replacement, think about it who is gonna want to join a club that sells their best players. It doesnt exactly signal their ambition does it?

You are confused...Here we are being forced to sell Michael because he has taken us for a ride and been stalling on his contract extention for months now. He will be on Bosman come December this year. This is entirely different from having to sell a player to survive.

good point

but still not being able to convince your best players to stay isnt very atractive for new players espescially for a top player that we will need to buy to replace owen.

Its also going to ****** off the players that have just signed and players we originally had before. Here's everyone talking about a new fantastic season at anfield, we have a new manager, with new ideas, a good reputation and presumeably a few ideas on new signings. Everyone in the club is on the up, there's talk of even winning the title this season and then before weve even played our first league match our best striker has f*cked off to real madrid. We should have no delusions about what owen ment within the club, i think existing players and new ones looked to him and had hope. Now all of a sudden he's gone and at the moment it seems like a great deal of that hope with it. Therefore with him out of the team i think the lack of hope will be apparent to both existing players and new signings the club wish to make.

You say he had a huge reputation, thats exactly what im talking about. Michael owen has a huge name in world football and that inspires people to join on its own. You saw it with cisse, he said he was really looking forward to playing with owen. Whether or not he would have joined if he ne owen was going im not sure, he probably would have im just saying that im sure it had a huge initial atraction from him that liverpool is were michael owen plays and weve lost that now. The only other big name we have left in world football now is gerrard and in my opinion he is a better player than owen but hasnt got the same name in world football.

[azriahmad]

Agreed, Santa.

Owen leaving was a case of Liverpool being forced to cut the potential losses as Owen has repeatedly stalled at signing a new contract for whatever reasons after Liverpool has tried its best.

Benithez said that Liverpool tried their best but when Real Madrid came into the picture and with Owen having less than 10 months of his contract left, the situation became impossible to control.

Read this news at Benitez Confirms Owen Departure on what Benithez had to say.

Must there be a natural successor? Owen consistently became the Liverpool top scorer in the past in spite of a poor playing style which is very biased towards being defensive because we capitalised on his strengths - pace - and played a lot of long balls.

Actually, Owen has more to his game than just pace and could have scored much more goals if we had a better playing style.

The best thing is to fully utilise the strengths of the strikers that we have right now and go forward from there.

[A.B.]

You can't replace Owen so easily.

[azriahmad]

Agreed. He is absolute class and I think he is the best striker we have ever had in recent memory. He can shoot better than Rushie and his pace is terrifying. If he had played during the era when Liverpool play that progressive passing and pressing game, he would surely have scored more.

I think that he will have scored more if he played in Benithez's team but sadly that was not to be...

[Santa]

All will be forgotten when we beat Spurs this week and Cisse starts hitting the net regularly ...

[A.B.]

I hope see but there will be something missing like a missing piece to a puzzle. I've gotten used to seeing the number 10 on the pitch in every game.

[Santa]

I've gotten used to seeing the number 10 on the pitch in every game.

You have not taken into account his mandatory 3 months injury timeout per season right?

OK i am bitter, not because he is leaving but the way he screw the club. I will just shut up for now...

[A.B.]

I've gotten used to seeing the number 10 on the pitch in every game.

You have not taken into account his mandatory 3 months injury timeout per season right?

OK i am bitter, not because he is leaving but the way he screw the club. I will just shut up for now...

Well you know what I ment lol.

[Badmao1]

I don't think Owen screwed the club, the time has come for a change for both parties and i do think this will be forgotten about after a couple of games if Baros & Cisse start banging in goals.

The problem comes if we now struggle to get goals and/or Baros/Cisse flop, then there won't be a Liverpool fan who doesn't mention if only we kept Owen every game.

I was more upset when Robbie Fowler left us.

[A.B.]

This is a problem we only have three strikers now, Pongolle isn't all that good.

[Badmao1]

Pongolle is a quality looking young player and everytime he came into the team last season he made an impact. Over the next couple of years he'll develop into a top premiership player.

[whitehouse]

bring in defoe mind you he would cost us more than we just let owen go for

[A.B.]

Diouf? not him again