Toon Pay £38.4 Million For Owen!
The Spanish side apparently want £24million up front for their star player and also want Liverpool to fund a pay-off in the region of £3million which is due to Torres under the terms of his Atletico contract.
So ... working on those figures ... Michael Owen cost Newcastle £17m and has a four year contract worth £103,000 a week. Wages alone will cost the Magpies £21,424,000, add on the fee and that totals £38,424,000.
So far he has started 13 games in two years, making that (to date) £1,477,846 per game.
As Shearer said: "I cannot see him walking away. He owes Newcastle big time for standing by him during his injury".