Alan Shearer Is Blaming Me For Failing As A Manager – Owen

Michael Owen has said Alan Shearer is blaming him for his own failure as Newcastle manager.

Shearer blasted his ex team-mate on Twitter on social media recently after Owen said in an interview that he regretted joining Newcastle from Real Madrid in 2005.

Owen played for four years with Newcastle and made 79 appearances before he joined Manchester United after the Tyneside outfit were relegated from the EPL while Alan was the caretaker manager.

After replying Alan Shearer’s jibe by suggesting he was not as loyal to Newcastle as most people believe, Owen feels his ex England player is still finding it hard to overcome his managerial failures.

His words, “If Alan Shearer has come to the conclusion that I didn’t fancy playing in the last game against Aston Villa because I was worried about getting injured and subsequently worried about my next move then, if that’s what’s in his head and that’s how he’s overcome his disappointment of not being a success as Newcastle manager, then that’s fine in a way,”

“It’s almost like a grieving period and sometimes you’ve got to blame someone else.

“I’ve done it loads of times in my life. Do you think I’ve come off a pitch and said ‘I’ve been rubbish today, it’s all my fault?’ No way. You’ll never be a footballer if you’re like that.

“You think ‘well the right-back can’t pass for toffee, the midfielder is not creative enough, my strike partner is not seeing my run’, whatever you think.

“Very rarely if you’re right at the top of the game do you blame yourself.

“As I say, it’s a compliment to Alan Shearer. He’s had to find some way of not blaming himself, I guess, for what happened with Newcastle.

“But I find it hard that he’s come to the decision to blame me for it when I was hardly fit in the period he took over, and then I actually put my body on the line in the last game when really I was a week or two away from being fit from a groin injury.

“So I get it, I don’t agree with it. I don’t think that he will ever change his mind, change his view, so I almost think that bit is pointless.”