Owen says he wants to win over Newcastle United's fans once and for all ... which is amazing considering he has been at the club for more than two years!
Les Ferdinand 'came and went' during that time, scoring an amazing 50 goals in 81 appearances (and another two as late substitute).
Yet we are still talking about Owen as if he is a new signing. And I suppose in some ways (amount of full games he has played) he probably is!
Last week I spoke of the Toon fan who said to me at St James' Park, "he's not one of us yet, and for some reason I don't think he ever will be. He has a distance about him, as though he goes through the motions and wishes he was back at Liverpool".
And against Spurs, Owen often looked a million miles away, as though he was not enjoying his game. Sam Allardyce replaced him, and I honestly felt as though the England international was pleased to go off.
He poured his heart out to the News Of The World on Sunday, saying his sad and bitter at press comments. And if the truth was known the News Of The World lead the world in anti-Newcastle shite ... and Owen has just signed up to write a weekly column for them!
Gambling with Russian roulette if ever I saw it! That paper wants scandal and they haven't signed him up for him to talk about his horses.
No doubt Owen is being paid well by his new employers, and they will want a good return.
Owen rarely talks to the local reporters, and one said this weekend "I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times he has talked to me since he signed in August 2005, and I'm not alone.