Michael Owen vs Alan Shearer | Twitter fight after controversial Newcastle quotes

09/03/2019

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Former Liverpool striker Michael Owen and former Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer’s feud has heated up, with Owen claiming that Shearer was itching for a move away. The two strikers played for Newcastle United during the 2005/06 season, with Owen arriving that summer in a club record move.

In a shocking revelation that has since lit the football world alight, former Liverpool, Manchester United and Newcastle United striker Michael Owen has said that he regrets his move to the Magpies. The now 39-year-old outlined his grief at joining the club for a then club-record move even revealing that it caused him to fall out with Newcastle legend Alan Shearer.

“My move to Newcastle was one I really regret – I should have followed my gut instincts from the start. I didn’t want to go there,” Owen wrote in the Mirror.

However, it did not end there with Owen going on to explain in a lot of detail how then manager Graeme Souness “called him roughly two weeks for almost a year”, how moving to St James’ Park was a “downward step” for him and that last bit seemed to set off Shearer.

The Newcastle United legend – who won a league title with Blackburn Rovers and rejected Manchester United twice – and Owen – who left Newcastle for the Red Devils in 2009 – have a decade long feud that started when Shearer managed Newcastle United in the 2008/09 season. It was after that Owen left the Magpies for free to join Manchester United.

In response to Michael Owen’s column, Shearer wrote;

Yes Michael, we thought that also, whilst on £120k a week.....
— Alan Shearer (@alanshearer)

That caused Owen to hit back at Shearer with another tweet.

Not sure you are as loyal to Newcastle as you make out mate. I distinctly remember you being inches away from signing for Liverpool after Sir Bobby Robson put you on the bench. You tried everything to get out.
— michael owen (@themichaelowen)

Twitter loves a good feud and the results were there to be seen.

— Jonny Sharples (@JonnyGabriel)

It’s 2019 and Michael Owen & Alan Shearer are beefing with each on Twitter.
— Mo Gilligan (@MoTheComedian)

Then Leicester City cult hero Gary Lineker joined in the fun;

Awkward 🤣
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker)

Are you surprised he’s manipulated a tiny part of an honest answer to aim a cheap dig at me? Most ex players I’ve spoken to aren’t.
— michael owen (@themichaelowen)

But he quickly backed out and instead opted to join us on the fence instead.