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 cherished and it bloody hurts, so I desire to keep away from it.”
However a suggestion the previous striker delivered in the Telegraph in a separate interview definitely gained’t do a lot to thaw relations at his boyhood membership.
Michael Owen presents Liverpool star Trent Alexander-Arnold a serving to hand out of Anfield
Trent Alexander-Arnold has 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 number of of the lads have owned horses at my stables, however we typically don’t discuss soccer except I’m working. However I’d be on the finish of the cellphone for anybody who wished to debate it.”
With Alexander-Arnold’s present contract operating out this summer season, and him being far and away crucial Liverpool-born participant on the membership, followers seeing Owen supply to facilitate a transfer away, even in a small approach, is unlikely to spice up his standing.
However the former England ahead is reasonable about what that transfer might do to the right-back’s status in his hometown, primarily based on his personal experiences of the identical transfer.
Owen mentioned: “No matter occurs he [Alexander-Arnold] ought to be thought to be a hero. Sadly, it does have an effect on the best way folks view you. It would tarnish him in some eyes regardless that it shouldn’t.”
With the 44-year-old seemingly resigned to the best way he’s considered at Anfield himself, it seems Owen — who scored 158 targets in 297 appearances for the Reds — simply desires to assist Alexander-Arnold do what’s finest for him.
Owen complaining about his standing at Anfield, earlier than not lengthy afterwards providing certainly one of their largest — and homegrown — stars recommendation on leaving has understandably not gone down properly 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 might need been clever to maintain it quiet within the nationwide press, although, if he desires an opportunity at mending relations with supporters of his former membership.
