Comments on: Owen Signs, and he’s no Henrik Larsson http://redrants.com/owen-signs-and-hes-no-henrik-larsson/ Manchester United Blog Thu, 24 May 2012 13:44:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Baza the Red http://redrants.com/owen-signs-and-hes-no-henrik-larsson/comment-page-3/#comment-70519 Baza the Red Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:24:20 +0000 http://redrants.com/?p=1734#comment-70519 On the "underwhelmed" topic - perhaps we could have a league of some kind for least whelming signings ever: those that made your heart skip no beat, even slow down to near-death when you heard them. For me Owen is middling but not the worst (he came free, no reason to think he won't score more than Tevez last season, he has all the motivation in the world etc.) *IF* this proves to be it s regards summer signings (unknown at present) then my ehelm factor would lessen further. At present, though, don't think the (redeemed? we'll see) dipper can compete with, e.g. Peter Barnes (1985) Terry Gibson (1986) Jordi Cruyff (1996) Laurent Blanc (2002) Not saying these were all catastrophic signings (though they mostly were), just that *in context* (e.g. Blanc: "replacing" Jaap; Gibson: "saving" United's 85-86 title campaign; Cruyff: waiting - and waiting - for a Big Signing post Euro 96; etc.) they were a sodding great letdown. Owen's certainly up for a place in this pantheon IMHO, hope I'm wrong. Any other candidates? On the “underwhelmed” topic – perhaps we could have a league of some kind for least whelming signings ever: those that made your heart skip no beat, even slow down to near-death when you heard them.

For me Owen is middling but not the worst (he came free, no reason to think he won’t score more than Tevez last season, he has all the motivation in the world etc.) *IF* this proves to be it s regards summer signings (unknown at present) then my ehelm factor would lessen further. At present, though, don’t think the (redeemed? we’ll see) dipper can compete with, e.g.

Peter Barnes (1985)
Terry Gibson (1986)
Jordi Cruyff (1996)
Laurent Blanc (2002)

Not saying these were all catastrophic signings (though they mostly were), just that *in context* (e.g. Blanc: “replacing” Jaap; Gibson: “saving” United’s 85-86 title campaign; Cruyff: waiting – and waiting – for a Big Signing post Euro 96; etc.) they were a sodding great letdown. Owen’s certainly up for a place in this pantheon IMHO, hope I’m wrong.

Any other candidates?

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]]> By: jj http://redrants.com/owen-signs-and-hes-no-henrik-larsson/comment-page-3/#comment-70381 jj Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:58:15 +0000 http://redrants.com/?p=1734#comment-70381 owen to wear number 20! who is wearing it currently? owen to wear number 20!

who is wearing it currently?

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