I hate to be negative about any of our players, but I just feel that Carroll will never be good enough, and the longer we hold onto him the more his value will drop. On his day Carroll can be unmarkable, I know this, but unfortunately his day only comes a handful of times a season, and we need to be playing a particular style to facilitate him to have such a game.
I think Carroll is our 21st Century version of Emile Heskey. A pretty honest player, who will have a few great games a season, but overall will flatter to deceive. I think, like Heskey, Carroll will only ever score 10-12 league goals per season no matter who he's playing for, and we need somebody who can give us more return...who that player is, I don't know, but I sure hope we find him soon. Suarez is a typical No. 10 in my book, if we could sign a real goal scorer to play the No. 9 role then we'd have a very dangerous forward line when you throw the likes of Borini, Gerrard, Sterling and hopefully Assaidi into the mix.