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Sky say that the Newcastle board remain confident of signing Michael Owen before Wednesday. God I hate even hearing that. Hope Elisha comes up with some good news!

If he agrees to go there, I'd have thought he'd insist on a clause saying he can leave for a decent amount.

So, do we actually want United to beat Newcastle today? A morale boosting win for the Geordies would really give Souness something to point Owen towards as a sign of things to come. A nice crushing defeat could really enforcve Owen's beliefs that its not the right place to go. I'm sure Owen is far too professional to allow the result of one game to seriously affect his decision but, at the moment, I'll take anything that swings things in our favour. Still, its hard to want United to win...

Mate they will still owe Newcastle money for Woodgate.

Its what WILL happen? Are you saying he is signing for Newcastle or that he will sign for them if he doesn't come to us?

So, when do you reckon we'll hear something official regarding a bid?

What makes you think Cisse is being forced out "on un football relalted issues". If Cisse is indeed being sold, I would have thought it was for football reasons alone.

You're our very own Mr Scoop aren't you CarraLegend? Always the first with the stories!

What's happened to the neighbourhood?

No one wants him any more...

Would be a complete nightmare if it fell through now.

Number 18.

And what his favourite biscuit is.

Crouch and Owen have played one game together as far as I know and Owen scored three...

So you will be popping the champagne corks then?

I don't think that Bascombe would have written that if it weren't pretty nailed on. Officially excited.

They wre never going to drop out. They're absolutely desperate to get him there.

And I can't wait to have him back.

They won't pull out of the deal, they're desperate for him. Hopefully he'll move to us sooner rather than later though. Looking forward to September 1st now, need a break from checking every available news source first and last thing every day, as well as most of the time in between.

A joke surely? You were missing the

As confident as I've ever been now.

Really wish I'd seen that. It seems that every time Parry or Rafa talk about Owen they're giggling like school girls. Also interesting that he expressly said that they share the same opinion.

ITV teletext are reporting that Owen will not accept a permanent deal to Newcastle. Not sure where they got it from.

Not sure I can cope with clicking refresh solidly till Sept 1st...