like many ive been thinking a lot about this, for me there is one answer and thats Owen, The perceived problem is injury problems. I say perceived because of his history over the last 2 years when he had a cruciate injury, which Kept himout of the game for 12 months I think. Other than that he is no more injury prone than Carew. The thing is with owen is he is different. Different to say Defoe who to my mind is too similar to Gabby, He is an intelligent footballer who uses his brain or instinct to be in the right place at the right time. There is also the fact he has scored in big matches for big teams all through his career, dippers Madrid and England, even playing for a crap team like Newcastle he is only one goal behind Gabby. Defoe on the other hand is 3 behind (2 pens) playing for a possibly better team.
Then there is the profile of the club, Michael Owen plays for Villa. How good would that sound. Imagine trying to defend against the Villa with Gabby and big John, or if that dont work, Big john and Owen or if that dont work Gabby and Owen. We could play differently depending on the match.
As for getting Owen, well he's so close to 50 England goals all MON has to say is 60 grand a week, £3m sign on fee and by the way Capello has a season ticket at VP
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