What do you think will be the outcome of all this Michael Owen speculation will be?
In my opinion, I believe that Michael will stay. The speculation about Real Madrid has been proven false for the most part.
a)Morientes played in Real's game today making him cup-tied along with every other player who played for Real for that matter
b)Etto signed a deal with Barcelona so there is no "10 million pounds plus Morientes/Etto" anymore.
c)I don't believe that Michael would like to be a back up striker for Real neither would Real pay a lot of money for a 3rd striker who probably would be on the bench.
d)A Barcelona move is unlikely as well, Barcelona bought Larsson from Celtic and Etto from Madrid. So they have their strikers for that matter and I don't think they are interested in Michael
The media has really blown this out of proportion, nobody has officialy commented about this situation. I know that most have asked "If Owen was loyal to LFC he would had sign" but this situation is a bit more complicated than it seems, and also there is Owen being on the bench. I don't think that had anything to do with Owen leaving it was all about who Rafa thought should play that game. Remember that Rafa did say that each striker would play around twenty games. I don't think that Owen was mentally fit for the game due to all this speculation so Rafa decided to bench him.
In conclusion, I think Michael Owen, the Liverpool wonder will stay with us. I don't see him going to a different club and if we were to replace him the only player that I would like to see wear that number 10 shirt would be Thierry Henry but thats unlikely.
Post your thoughts on this. If there was a topic made about this already, I apologize.