Stoke City manager Tony Pulis has suggested that striker Michael Owen is in contention for a new contract at the Britannia Stadium.
The 33-year-old, who moved to Stoke on a free transfer last summer after being released by Manchester United, has failed to cement a regular place in the first team due to a number of injury setbacks.
"We will review it at the end of the season with Dean Whitehead and three or four others," Sky Sports News quotes Pulis as saying. "It will help his cause if he is in the team, of course it will. Michael wants to play. He wants to play every week.
"I haven't got a player in that dressing room that doesn't want to play. There is no-one in there happy to just sit and pick up the money.
"He doesn't need to play a certain amount of games to win a contract. There is nothing like that in his deal. There are no strings attached to his contract."
The former Newcastle United, Real Madrid and Liverpool forward, who comes to the end of his current contract at the end of the season, has yet to make a Premier League start this season.
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