The buyer could reinstate the billiard table in Owen's home

The house in Ewloe, Flintshire, is on sale for �595,000.

The 24-year-old player lived at the house for about four years and bought a whole row of houses down the road for his parents and other members of his family.

Owen, who has a baby daughter with his partner Louise, no longer needs the home where he stored his England football caps because he has moved into his �1.6m country manor house at Soughton Hall in Sychdyn, near Mold.

The property for sale has five bedrooms, two studies, a double garage, three bath or shower rooms and a top floor billiards and games room.

Owen, whose girlfriend is recovering in hospital after breaking her pelvis in a horse accident at their Soughton Hall home, was previously embroiled in a row with ramblers over the Ewloe house.

Michael Owen bought a cul-de-sac for his relatives

Ramblers claimed that a public footpath ran through his front room and they had the right of way.

However, the path has now been diverted and the property has four CCTV cameras, a gate entry system and burglar alarm, and the rear gardens are set behind a brick wall for privacy reasons.

One neighbour who did not wish to be identified said a number of people had been to see it.

"Most seemed interested in buying a beautiful house rather than who lived there before."

Coincidentally, his childhood home in Cromwell Close, Hawarden was put on the market in April last year.

That was advertised for �190,000 and the sale is said to be proceeding with the house "under offer".