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title: "Liverpool: Fans did not like Michael Owen’s claims about Steven Gerrard"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/liverpool-fans-did-not-like-michael-owens-claims-about-steven-gerrard/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Liam Togher"
section: "Liverpool Football Club"
published: "2019-09-06T14:20:55Z"
modified: "2019-09-06T14:20:55Z"
---

# Liverpool: Fans did not like Michael Owen’s claims about Steven Gerrard

**Former Liverpool player and [current club ambassador](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/announcements/217017-michael-owen-becomes-lfc-international-ambassador) Michael Owen has claimed that the Reds were trying to get rid of ex-captain Steven Gerrard two years before he left for Los Angeles Galaxy in 2015.**

[Sky Sports](https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11669/11803142/liverpool-wanted-steven-gerrard-gone-earlier-says-michael-owen) reported extracts from Owen’s new autobiography *Reboot*, in which he alleged that the Anfield club had wanted Gerrard out a couple of years before his move to the United States.

Sky Sports Premier League on Twitter ([@SkySportsPL](https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1169718063031291905)) posted the story, along with a pull-quote, to their followers.

> "I've heard that the club wanted him out two years prior to when he actually left."
>
> — Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) [September 5, 2019](https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1169718063031291905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

In his new book, Owen wrote that his [former Liverpool team-mate](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michael-owen/gemeinsameSpiele/spieler/1397) had become “bigger than the club” and “become so symbolic and so powerful” that he was forced out of Anfield, with Owen doubting whether Gerrard truly wanted to move to LA Galaxy, as reported by [Sky Sports](https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11669/11803142/liverpool-wanted-steven-gerrard-gone-earlier-says-michael-owen).

Owen [scored 158 goals in 297 games for the Reds](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michael-owen/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/1397) before [leaving for Real Madrid in 2004](https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/3560542.stm) and later [played for Manchester United](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michael-owen/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/1397), while Gerrard had a [17-year career in Liverpool’s first team](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/steven-gerrard/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/3109) and [captained them to Champions League glory](https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=games/decade/2005liverpoolmilan) the season after his former team-mate left for Spain.

These Liverpool fans on Twitter ridiculed Owen over his comments about Gerrard:

> And this is who u have as a club ambassador [@PeterMooreLFC](https://twitter.com/PeterMooreLFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@Linda\_Pizzuti](https://twitter.com/Linda_Pizzuti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) please distance our beautiful club from this stain as soon as possible.\
> Agger for ambassador!!
>
> — Ur fav bartender (@1choicelfc) [September 5, 2019](https://twitter.com/1choicelfc/status/1169719817051525120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/poggiolino/status/1169719381288529920

> Enough is enough. Remove Owen as Liverpool's ambassador. [@PeterMooreLFC](https://twitter.com/PeterMooreLFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [@Linda\_Pizzuti](https://twitter.com/Linda_Pizzuti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
>
> — Sudarshan (@SrinzzzLFC) [September 6, 2019](https://twitter.com/SrinzzzLFC/status/1169851682219364352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/TwerpyDerpyDerp/status/1169720992182231041

> Who cares what he says he had a few good years and turned into a fraud
>
> — Ronald (@RonaldIAmClever) [September 5, 2019](https://twitter.com/RonaldIAmClever/status/1169730181399011329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Id give Gerrard 5 years too many and infinite years more than a snake…
>
> — SeanTheRed (@SH090983) [September 5, 2019](https://twitter.com/SH090983/status/1169730350177603584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***What did you think of Owen’s claims about his former Liverpool team-mate? Share your views in the comments section below!***