Michael Owen happy as bit-part leader at Manchester United Manchester United

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Michael Owen has certified that he would rather be a bit-part player at Manchester United, severe for footballs greatest prizes, than a first-team unchanging at a less successful club.

Owen picked up his initial winners award in 7 years after the Carling Cup last at Wembley on Sunday his last came when Liverpool kick United in the 2003 last and he believes that the 2-1 feat over Aston Villa irreproachable his preference to pointer for the Barclays Premier League champions last summer.

I have played for teams that have not been you do well, Owen said, alluding to his 4 years at Newcastle United, after a deteriorate with Real Madrid, for whom he left Liverpool in 2004. Id cite to be personification a obtuse purpose somewhere where I am precision with top-quality players, meaningful when you play, it is in a diversion similar to this.

When Owen, 30, assimilated United last summer he pronounced that his budding proclivity was to enlarge his award collection. Having finished so on Sunday, he has set his sights on some-more prizes, with the Premier League and Champions League, competitions he has not won, tip of the list. United lay a point at the behind of Chelsea, the joining leaders, and are in a great on all sides to reach the quarter-finals in Europe.

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Before he can resume what is mostly a fill-in purpose in Uniteds attack on those honours, Owen contingency redeem from the injure leg tendon repairs that curtailed his impasse in Sundays last after he had scored his initial idea in a poignant Wembley final. He is due to have a indicate today, but United goal that he can lapse for the joining compare at home to Liverpool on Mar 21.

I am going to be out for a couple of weeks but once I get back, it will hopefully be for a little critical games, Owen said. I was usually about to pitch my leg and shoot. I felt it grappling iron up. It is utterly bruise so there is going to be a bit of damage. It is going to be weeks rather than days.

The fly in Owens salve is his disaster to win behind his place in the England squad. Owen insists that the issue does not annoy him. I dont think about England, he said. It is formidable to find the right difference since one trip of the tongue and I am going to be behind page. I would usually be lying to you if I spoke about England, so there is no point asking.