Andy Carroll mega-thread

[Einch]

Mental day. Glad I had a day of admin instead of meetings and calls. FSG will have seen the extremes of the football transfer market in action in this window and should, I hope, have a better plan moving into the summer.

[WhiskeyJar]

Fucking made up now....Babel was deadweight and Torres could not be arsed.

 

Fuck em both.

 

I missed having a big guy up front. Him and Suarez will be good for us.

[Phoenix]

Emerging that carroll didn't want to leave and was told to go!

Don't think I fancy having a player who doesn't really want to be here.

 

Why did he hand in a transfer request then?

[Guest davelfc]

[Torvald Utne]

Fuck, he's shorter than me...looks absolutely massive.

[Ramjet]

Fuck, he's shorter than me...looks absolutely massive.

 

Yeah, he looks like a monster alright, mate at work is massive Newcastle fan and he is gutted that Carroll is gone.

[karl1987]

Built like a brick shithouse.

[Pidge]

May have been posted but...

 

The Mags official calendar 2011:

 

[Arl arse]

Carroll & Suarez - Toshack & Keegan?

[Moschops II]

Could have been worse. When Hodgson was here, we were in for Jay Bothroyd.

[Jose Jones]

Harsh but true?

 

"Andy has been likened to Duncan Ferguson, and I can see why, but he is quicker than Big Dunc was.”

 

This is going to sound stupid but on his day Duncan Ferguson was unplayable (quite often against the Mancs). It’s just his day didn’t come very often, he was happy to just be a cult hero, he was a nutcase and liked boozing.

I can see the Carroll comparisons really – both big fuckers who can win everything in the air but also decent on the ground, and a bit of a nutter. If Carroll can decide he wants to be brilliant he can be a monster player.

[Liquid football]

He can be an outstanding signing for us, it's up to him. I'm happy with this.

[Mathewbet1]

Good luck to him. I still think we may have paid 10m too much. But if he continuous to develop could be a great player for us.

[redsfan]

Ok, am gonna just say it....he scares the shit out of me!!!! God help defenders!!!!!!!

 

Total surprise signing but one that has me very excited!!!

[The Acolyte]

Why did he hand in a transfer request then?

 

Apparently told to go.

There are now fears that Newcastle won't see a penny of that 30+M as it will go straight in Ashley's pocket

Don't shoot the messenger.

[Captain Turdseye]

Theres going to be massive pressure on him to justify that fee but hopefully he can. Nobody better in the air in the premiership IMO. Welcome to Liverpool Andy, you've got the potential to be massive here, just give 100%, thats all we ask.

[Liquid football]

Good luck to him. I still think we may have paid 10m too much. But if he continuous to develop could be a great player for us.

 

Under normal circumstances i'd agree that £25 million would be a fairer figure based on potential, being English and being at his boyhood club but are we going to be crying over 10 million pounds if he turns out to be a good signing? Nope. No-one is going to give a fuck. So it might as well have been £25 million, we aren't going to notice. What we are going to notice is how well we do for the rest of this season, so unless you think he's just flat out shite then you've got nothing to moan about.

[Einch]

Any legal types about who can clarify what needs to happen for him to move down to Liverpool? I guess at a minimum we need to supply the name and address of a suitable "warden" for the lad and probably character references for whoever this is and get the judge/magistrate to approve a change in location.

[Faustus]

Any legal types about who can clarify what needs to happen for him to move down to Liverpool? I guess at a minimum we need to supply the name and address of a suitable "warden" for the lad and probably character references for whoever this is and get the judge/magistrate to approve a change in location.

 

I could be wrong, but I heard he's got to stay with Kevin Nolan's mum.

[TheHowieLama]

Under normal circumstances i'd agree that £25 million would be a fairer figure based on potential, being English and being at his boyhood club but are we going to be crying over 10 million pounds if he turns out to be a good signing? Nope. No-one is going to give a fuck. So it might as well have been £25 million, we aren't going to notice. What we are going to notice is how well we do for the rest of this season, so unless you think he's just flat out shite then you've got nothing to moan about.

 

If he can play at or even near the level of Torres in his pomp it is a steal.

[Chinandeler Bong]

ANDY CARROLL completed an astonishing £35million move to Liverpool yesterday but claimed he had been forced out of Newcastle.

Striker Carroll, 22, told close friends he did not want to leave Newcastle and texts seen by the Daily Express confirm that.

In one, sent to Steve Wraith, editor of a Toon fanzine, Carroll says: “They have kind of said we don’t want u but want me to say I wanna go. And I said I don’t wanna go.”

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Asked what was going on, Carroll replied: “I don’t know mate. Gutted tho. They said they wanted the money. Gutted to be leaving my home club but I was practically told to go. Don’t want to leave. That’s why I signed five-year deal.”

Carroll makes it clear that the motivation for the move was based around the Magpies board, who wanted to cash in on his blistering early-season form and felt £35m was too good an offer to decline.

Carroll made his late-night switch to Liverpool for a record fee for a British player as manager Kenny Dalglish quickly spent some of the £50m he received for Fernando Torres’s move to Chelsea.

When Carroll signed an extended deal in November he said: “That’s it, 100 per cent. I’ve just signed a five-year contract and as it stands I want to be here forever. This is my home, what I want to be doing, the club I want to play for, the shirt I want to wear.”

Newcastle said Carroll left of his own accord, having handed in a transfer request and had moved for vastly increased wages

 

 

Read more: Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | Sport | Football

[redsfan]

Any legal types about who can clarify what needs to happen for him to move down to Liverpool? I guess at a minimum we need to supply the name and address of a suitable "warden" for the lad and probably character references for whoever this is and get the judge/magistrate to approve a change in location.

 

How long has he left do you know under house arrest or what ever it is?

[Liquid football]

Apparently told to go.

 

I am open to the fact that i'm not getting onto something here but why would being told that you had to go make you hand in a transfer request? If you were being forced out you wouldn't need to hand one in surely?

[fowler9]

I could be wrong, but I heard he's got to stay with Kevin Nolan's mum.

 

the original case was that he had to stop with Nolan till the case came up again in January however the charges were then dropped on lack of evidence so think he should be okay to live on his own

[Einch]

How long has he left do you know under house arrest or what ever it is?

 

Not sure about any of this. Faustus (couple of posts up) says he has to stay with Nolan's mum. I would rather the club kept a closer eye on him and hope we can get him focussed on his football rather than his social life.