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  • MontyMagpie
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:13 pm Reply with quote
Newcastle striker Michael Owen has stepped up his recovery from his cruciate ligament injury by jogging for the first time in training.
The 27-year-old was put through his paces at the Magpies' Darsley Park training ground on Monday.

Owen was injured playing for England at last year's World Cup.

He is hoping to make his first-team comeback in April but he admitted earlier this month that he may not return before the end of the season.

"I haven't had any setbacks. Hopefully I can return this season, but it could be next season," Owen told BBC Sport.

Magpies boss Glenn Roeder said that was open to "different interpretations" but he would not force Owen's comeback.

Roeder warned that it was not in anyone's interest for a return date to be set, in case Owen could not meet it and people interpreted this as a cause for concern,

"With someone like Michael Owen, it is best for us not to say `We believe he will be back on this specific date'," he said.

"Because he is a world-renowned footballer, if he does not make that date, then all hell is let loose and he has had a setback."

 
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:45 pm Reply with quote
its all looking good for us now. roll on next season!

 
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Post Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:34 pm Reply with quote
How great will Owen and Martins be. Thats if Owen gets back. He is seeing the same guy that worked wonders on Dyer so fingers crossed.

 
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Post Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:29 pm Reply with quote
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Michael Owen remains on course to return from a serious knee injury before the end of the season.
The Newcastle striker is recovering from surgery after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament at the World Cup in June last year.

"I would think it would be a couple of weeks before I can join in training," the 27-year-old told the Times.

"I am kicking and running straight as hard as I like, and then it is the twisting and turning."


Great news Very Happy To be honest though, i'd much rather he didn't over do it in rushing back Confused

 
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Post Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:57 pm Reply with quote
Owen and Martins together will kill every defence in the premiership.

 
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Post Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:27 am Reply with quote
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Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder believes Michael Owen's knee injury would have ended his career a few years ago.

The 27-year-old England striker is back in training and perhaps only days away from joining in with his team-mates following the long haul back from two bouts of surgery.

However, Roeder is acutely aware that, in a different era, the ruptured anterior cruciate ligament injury he suffered at the World Cup finals in June could have finished him as a professional footballer.

"Michael is where he should be in his recovery. He was out there this morning and he is looking in fine shape considering how bad the injury was," Roeder said.

"People have to realise the injury he suffered during the World Cup was a shocking injury. It is not that many years ago than an injury like that would finish a player's career.

"Thankfully, because of medical advances and the ability of surgeons to put parts of the human body back together again, he is out training and I am very, very pleased for him."

Owen was operated upon in America by renowned specialist Dr Richard Steadman - the man who prolonged Alan Shearer's career - and immediately set his sights on playing again this season.

That may yet happen, although both Roeder and Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd, who is still fighting for compensation for the loss of the club's record signing for the bulk of the campaign, have insisted he will not be rushed back.

Owen has managed only 11 appearances to date for the club, the last of them as a substitute at Birmingham in April last year, but his seven goals have demonstrated the potency in which the Magpies invested so heavily two years ago.

With Shola Ameobi also on course for a return before the end of the season and Obafemi Martins and Antoine Sibierski added to the mix, Roeder is confident he has a strikeforce that can make a real impact in 2007/08.

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