Former Liverpool participant Michael Owen has claimed that he doesn’t really feel welcome again at Anfield.
Chatting with the Athletic about travelling to the bottom, he revealed: “I don’t really feel as if I’m welcomed or beloved and it bloody hurts, so I desire to keep away from it.”
However a suggestion the previous striker delivered within the Telegraph in a separate interview definitely received’t do a lot to thaw relations at his boyhood membership.
Michael Owen gives Liverpool star Trent Alexander-Arnold a serving to hand out of Anfield
Trent Alexander-Arnold has just lately been touted to observe in Owen’s footsteps and, speaking to the Telegraph, the previous Liverpool man appeared just a little too eager to help the full-back’s departure.
“Trent’s acquired my quantity,” Owen mentioned. “A couple of of the lads have owned horses at my stables, however we usually don’t speak soccer until I’m working. However I might be on the finish of the telephone for anybody who wished to debate it.”
With Alexander-Arnold’s present contract working out this summer time, and him being far and away a very powerful Liverpool-born participant on the membership, followers seeing Owen supply to facilitate a transfer away, even in a small manner, is unlikely to spice up his standing.
However the former England ahead is life like about what that transfer might do to the right-back’s popularity in his hometown, primarily based on his personal experiences of the identical transfer.
Owen mentioned: “No matter occurs he [Alexander-Arnold] must be thought to be a hero. Sadly, it does have an effect on the way in which folks view you. It’ll tarnish him in some eyes regardless that it shouldn’t.”
With the 44-year-old seemingly resigned to the way in which he’s seen at Anfield himself, it seems Owen — who scored 158 targets in 297 appearances for the Reds — simply needs to assist Alexander-Arnold do what’s greatest for him.
Owen complaining about his standing at Anfield, earlier than not lengthy afterwards providing one in every of their largest — and homegrown — stars recommendation on leaving has understandably not gone down nicely with Liverpool followers.
Nonetheless, in FourFourTwo’s view, the parallels within the two gamers’ tales and their obvious current relationship make it unthinkable that the pair wouldn’t focus on the matter.
Owen may need been sensible to maintain it quiet within the nationwide press, although, if he needs an opportunity at mending relations with supporters of his former membership.
