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welcome back figaro, you have been missed.

the premiership? is that when football started?

I suspect that owens comments are in response to the bid from newcastle and not the other way round. think about it, we all woke up to day to the news of owens statement. a couple of hours later newcastle have cut through the red tape of a plc and put together a bid of at least 16m. this has then been sent to madrid, who have considered it at boardroom level and replied saying it is accepted. I can not see how this took a couple of hours after the release of owens statement. what is more plausible in my opinion is that newcastle made there bid yesterday or even before. Perez called owen in to discuss it, owen said he wants to go to liverpool, but if it means him sitting on the bench for 3 months, then he will go to newcastle on loan but will not sign a contract with them. i beleive that it is owen who has made a statement in relation to newcastle, and not newcastle making an offer in relation to owens statement. if this is correct it should strengthen our hand as owen has effectively rejected newcastle.