Andy Carroll

[AngerManagement]

£30m is a massive fee for Carroll, who ever pays such fees better have assessed his potential fully. I would hate the large fee to weigh him down and effect his development as an England striker because there are hardly an abundance of top young English strikers coming through.

Personally I would be very surprised to see us sign him for that amount of money but Liverpool have to make the gamble if they are losing Torres.

I think the Liverpool interest, if true, seemingly raising the price to £30m probably sees the end of our interest in the player this window.

 

[SuperSpurs69]

£30m is a massive fee for Carroll, who ever pays such fees better have assessed his potential fully. I would hate the large fee to weigh him down and effect his development as an England striker because there are hardly an abundance of top young English strikers coming through.

Personally I would be very surprised to see us sign him for that amount of money but Liverpool have to make the gamble if they are losing Torres.

I think the Liverpool interest, if true, seemingly raising the price to £30m probably sees the end of our interest in the player this window.

have to agree about the fee weighing him down. Thing is though he is the kind of forward we need, big and strong and can play upfront on his own. I know this is his first full season in the prem but he's certainly doing very well, plus he was scoring for fun in the championship and that is a tough league in itself.

Plus he would be eligible for the CL. Unless it's changed anyone playing in the europa cup can't play in the CL, whereas if you play in the CL then you can play in the Europa league.

Just had a look on his wiki page, scored 19 goals last season, already scored 11 this season, his record is 31 goals in 80 appearances for newcastle since 2006. I would say that around 60 of them have been over last season and this season, so a ratio of a goal every 2 games isn't too shabby

 

[Paolo10]

Especially as he's 21 and Newcastle are a relatively poor side, team of the season last year and all.

 

[DoublePivot]

Don't worry. We won't spend the money on him. Liverpool will

 

[danielneeds]

We will regret it if Carroll goes to Liverpool... Way overpriced, but he will become a legend there.

 

[AngerManagement]

We will regret it if Carroll goes to Liverpool... Way overpriced, but he will become a legend there.

Good luck to him.

£35m they are saying now, to me that is far to big a gamble for a player who is purely potential right now.

He looks a prospect no doubt but it is at best 50/50 whether he will go on to be a great striker or fade away after his bright start. £35m to me is too rich for that gamble. He isn't an established elite striker, he has basically only had one half season in the top flight, it's impossible to know whether he will sustain his success and continue to improve.

His off the field antics are a concern too.

 

[camaj]

I'd be slightly worried if he went to liverpool. Just from past experience when they've signed a player that we've been interested in and they've been a hit at anfield. Then again it's not been like that recently.

 

[AngerManagement]

It's always a concern when someone you are linked to moves to your rivals, but what can you do?

If they are prepared to make such a gamble they deserve to live or die by it, if he is a big hit and transforms them fair play but if he is just a flash in the pan and doesn't have the same impression once defenders are used to his style of play or he buckles under the pressure it will be an almighty waste of money (same to be said for Suarez, another of our targets)

We can only focus on ourselvs and not cry over spilt milk and what ifs. The way Carroll's price has sky rocketed means he is beyond the value we would be prepared to offer for a player in his position I think personally.

 

[Crow]

Agreed, £35 million is way too much.

 

[kaz Hirai]

:lol: 35 million. good luck to pool, seems like last minute panic purchase do to losing torres, could be their frazier campbell or he may turn out to be awesome.

be interesting to see how he plays in that system rather than newcastles long ball thug rollerball style play

 

[hughy]

As I said in the Discussion thread, he has a fucking lot to live up to now. More than Tevez, more than Adebayor, more than Dzeko. It's bloody unreal.

 

[WexfordTownSpur]

I think we need to understand. If we want to go further if we want to comPete yes we are going to have to pay inflated prices now. It is just part of the game now. Liverpool and Chelsea both know they are i'n trouble this season so they got out the checkbook. We could have had surez Forlan Carroll whomever we wanted bullets face it we will never get the big boys while DL is running the club.

We have done well with what we have had and got real lucky with vdv i'n the summer. But sorry guys these last two windows have shown we will go no further and may now start to fall back.

 

[THOWIG]

When you consider that Lukaku could be available for between 15-20 mil just makes this look like daylight robbery! Any reaction from newcastle fans? Im away from the country so can't watch ssn

 

[3Dnata]

He's about the only person that could increase crime and anti-social behaviour in Liverpool.

 

[striebs]

:lol: 35 million. good luck to pool, seems like last minute panic purchase do to losing torres, could be their frazier campbell or he may turn out to be awesome.

be interesting to see how he plays in that system rather than newcastles long ball thug rollerball style play

They would not have let Torres go without having Carroll lined up .

Newcastle and Liverpool have done very well out of Chelsea's owners money .

Sadly if Spurs had been in the same situation , they would have sold Torres and pocketed the difference rather than bring in a replacement at an inflated price .

Liverpool acting decisively like this have proved they are a big club .

All Levy's faffing about trying to get a Rolls (or a Rangerover) for Ford Focus money has backfired .

Sad thing is all the Levy bummers will take this as further evidence that the NPD is unviable and the club needs to move to cheap and nasty Stratford .

 

[si_yidarmy]

i do really rate him. but he did play at newcastle so he would have stood out anyway.

 

[Jody]

When you consider that Lukaku could be available for between 15-20 mil just makes this look like daylight robbery! Any reaction from newcastle fans? Im away from the country so can't watch ssn

I wonder where his likely destination is now?

 

[PT]

But, according to the sauces, Carroll preferred LFC over THFC. Nowt about bids being accepted etc, this one was down to player preference. Shit happens.