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    Fergie prepares high-stakes Owen punt

    By Chris Murphy

    Friday, July 3, 2009

    It appears there was at least one avid reader of Michael Owen's self-gratifying sales brochure, and it just happened to be the country's most shrewd manager. Many derided the preposterous hyperbole proffered by Owen's current management company, Wasserman Media Group, in their attempt to snare him a new club, while the only flickers of interest seemed to come from other experts at trumpet blowing; Hull manager Phil Brown and Stoke's Tony Pulis. But Sir Alex Ferguson was clearly leafing through ...

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