Interesting to see what's going on there. Allardyce and Newcastle clearly aren't happy. Being paid a fortune by his club yet he has played more times for his country in the last two years than he has for his club. Yet Owen naturally sees an opportunity to break Bobby Charlton's goal record.
So who is in the right ?
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I understand Newcastle fans frustration but if fit Owen should play for England and rightly try and break the record. These clubs will take the plaudits of international players and hike up their transfer fee because of their status but moan when it goes wrong. Look at West Hma they lost Dean Ashton on England duty - they didn't whinge as much as the Newcastle lot.
It happens -
IF Allardyce was England manager ,and he made a big thing of wanting the job, do you think he would have thought differently. HGe certainly won't get it now.
I can understand they don't want him to get injured playing for England, but he could just as easily injure himself in training.
That Owen has played and scored more often for England than Newcastle is just one of those things, but Newcastle knew this when they signed an established England international and one moreover with a bad track record for getting injured - Owen has never played a full season, and I don't think the player does himself any favours by playing when half-fit, as in the last World Cup when a further injury ko'd him for most of last year.
Why is Allardyce moaning? I think it's his nature, and a sign that the managers are under enormous pressure in the Premiership. Rightly he wants to look after his job and he knows that a recurrence of Owen's injury might leave him out for a month or two and he needs him fit and scoring goals for Newcastle. Had he got the Enland job of course he'd be saying the exact opposite and would be moaning if whoever was the Newcastle manager suggested he shouldn't play.
My view is that if a player is fit to play for his club then he is fit to play for his country. Owen played for Newcastle on sunday so he should play on saturday. But then I'm not a Newcastle fan.....
I just think he should chose his words more carefully. i.e. last week it was all about being able to play for England and nothing about Newcaastle - as if they didnt exist. This issue has arisen before for Owen so its nothing new.
So what....
No-one else wanted him when Newcastle came in for him and he seems happy enough to take the huge wages that they are paying him. Until another club comes in for him he should show them a bit more respect and, as Curb_it said, choose his words a bit more carefully.
In my eyes Owen is a English Legend in the making. So all this sh!te that allardyce is stirring will only bring allardyce down.