Michael Must Play

Despite that Newcastle United are the only ones to meet Real Madrid's transfer terms, one does not see Michael Owen in vertical black & white stripes.

And it is hard to imagine Alan Shearer's, Greame Souness's and Freddy Shepherd's full-court press having any effect on Owen, whose primary wish is to return to Liverpool. Owen would consider loan terms for a year Tyneside, but Newcastle shun the notion.