Michael Owen claims he will never apologise to Liverpool fans, ‘the last thing I’m going to do’

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In the meantime, of course, I’d phoned Liverpool to see if they were interested in signing me, but they weren’t.“Of course, I thought, ‘oh, Liverpool fans are going to hate me if I sign here.’ But what? But of course, I couldn’t tell them that.”READ MORE: Jeff Bezos and Liverpool’s new investors may have already picked their ideal sporting director“The last thing I’m going to do is apologise for going to Manchester United, because the fans were great with me, the people were great with me, I absolutely loved my time there.

“And then when I had the opportunity, when my agent phoned me and said that Madrid are interested in buying you, then, I mean, to say I was torn was an understatement.“I never expected or never wanted to leave Liverpool, but I could be sat here now talking to you and saying, you know what, at one point I was offered to go to Real Madrid and I said no, and I would definitely have regretted it, because I would never have known what it would have been like. I’ve got to go and try it.“Of course, I went to Madrid, had a great time, but when I wanted to come back, it could never work.

I never got to come back and to play for Liverpool.”Owen came closest to coming back to Liverpool only one year after leaving, when the Reds bid £10m to sign him from Madrid. With Owen desperate to return, though, Graeme Souness and Newcastle swooped in and put more money on the table.“Liverpool were prepared to pay 10 million for me, but just when I thought I was going, Newcastle slapped 16 million on the table to Real Madrid, and the president at the time came and saw me and he said, ‘you’re either staying at Real Madrid or you’re going to Newcastle, one or the other.