Former Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster has shared his ideas on Michael Owen’s feedback about Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane. He labeled it ‘disrespectful’ and urged Owen to indicate some modesty.
Owen appeared on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast on September 3 and claimed that he was a lot better than Rooney as a teen. The 2001 Ballon d’Or highlighted his stats as a teen for Liverpool. Later, BBC Match of the Day requested who is best between Rooney and Owen in a put up on X (previously Twitter).
Owen replied:
Furthermore, within the aforementioned interview, Owen slammed Harry Kane for shifting to Bayern Munich from Tottenham Hotspur, labeling his choice “nuts”.
Now, on his podcast Fozcast, former Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster has mentioned:
“It’s a little bit disrespectful, unquestionably. When you’re listening to that as a Bayern Munich fan, you are saying, ‘Cling on a minute, Michael, we’re one of many greatest soccer golf equipment on the earth.’
“I feel it is positively extra aimed on the league. If he (Kane) had stayed in England, he would have been very a lot on his solution to breaking that Alan Shearer file. I perceive it, however simply go away it. You have not obtained to return for him, have you ever?”
About Owen’s comparisons with Rooney, Foster mentioned:
“There have been numerous issues popping out of that interview, just like the comparisons with Wayne Rooney and who was the perfect at 17 years previous. He (Owen) was like nothing you’ve got ever seen earlier than. Do not get me unsuitable, Wayne Rooney was an absolute beast, however numbers-wise, Michael Owen was on a special planet.”
“The one distinction is that Wayne Rooney, although, went on and did that within the Premier League for an additional 12, 13 or 14 years. There’s not a lot modesty there [from Owen] principally. I feel with the profession that he is had, simply get pleasure from it mate, you’ve got earned it.”
Owen scored 223 objectives in 483 membership video games for the likes of Liverpool, Actual Madrid, and Manchester United. In the meantime, Rooney is Manchester United’s all-time prime goalscorer with 253 objectives and 142 assists in 559 video games.
Harry Kane responds to former Manchester United striker Michael Owen’s feedback
Harry Kane got here by way of Tottenham Hotspur’s academy and have become their all-time prime scorer with 280 objectives and 63 assists in 435 video games. He has additionally scored 213 objectives within the Premier League and sits simply 47 objectives behind Alan Shearer on the prime of the chart.
Michael Owen believes Kane ought to have stayed at Spurs and gone for Shearer’s file. Nevertheless, the England captain has responded to the previous Manchester United striker, saying (by way of ESPN):
“I heard it. Everyone seems to be entitled to their opinion. I’ve spent a little bit of time with him [Owen] however do not know him properly. Clearly he’s a Premier League nice and an England nice as properly so I am going to respect him as an individual. However in the end, as he’ll know, everybody’s profession is totally different — everybody’s choices and motivations are totally different.”
“I do know he was insinuating I went only for the trophy however it was to be on the highest degree for so long as doable and I am actually completely satisfied in that sense of taking part in massive video games, title runs, massive Champions League matches, Membership World Cup quarterfinal. I really feel I am bettering as a participant, I am pushing my limits as a participant by way of goalscoring and simply bettering. It is onerous to not hear issues as of late however the choices are greatest for me and I am actually completely satisfied that I made that call and really completely satisfied at Bayern Munich now.”
Kane has scored 91 objectives and offered 28 assists in 100 video games for Bayern, profitable the Bundesliga and the Franz Beckenbauer SuperCup.
Edited by Aditya Singh
