Before the Liverpool fans start to bite my head off after reading the title of this post, please allow me to firstly let you know that I am also a Liverpool fan writing this post and all I am simply doing is airing my opinion to you and interested to hear your thoughts:
In January, we lost Torres to Chelsea as he wanted to leave. Good riddance to Torres as any player who does not want to play for Liverpool should be sold. So I have no problem at all in us selling Liverpool and it was great that we received £50million pounds for him from Chelsea. Yes, we were under pressure to reinvest that money we got for Torres to get a replacement striker and Torres did not help us at all in that by his deal only going on on the final day of the transfer window, thus giving us very little time to sign a replacement.
So in what I term a panic buy, Liverpool ‘had to’ go out and buy someone. I use the word ‘had to’ very lightly as I do not believe we had to buy someone especially under the timing pressure we had. In all fairness, we were already having a bad season and all we aimed for was for Dalglish to just steer us to safety with the squad we had for the rest of the season and then we rebuild this summer. If we had hung onto that £35million we spent on Carroll until the summer we would be in a better position to buy someone better than Carroll or even get Carroll at a lower fee this summer as Newcastle knew we had the cash and we were desperate so they inflated his price. There is no way Carroll was worth £35million.
Coupled to that, Carroll was signed injured. Should we not have learnt from this mistake from signing Aquilani? But then again, FSG wanted to stamp their authority and show us the fans that they mean business and thus they spent the £35million on Carroll. What a waste of money in my opinion.
Yes, there was a possibility that Carroll could have done a Suarez and burst onto the scene and been a brilliant player, those are some of the gambles you take when signing a new player. But Carroll has not really set the Liverpool scene alight since he signed. Carroll has featured 9 times for Liverpool since he signed and has scored two goals. There is no doubt that Carroll has struggled with injuries and that has limited his ability this season.
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So just because we sold Torres for 50m we can go out and buy an unproven and inexperienced Carroll for 35m. That’s the new Liverpool way of doing things is it. Carroll is a good player and will only improve over time but 35m for him is a joke. I know Kenny was desperate to find a replacement for Torres but in retrospect, how much has Carroll actually contributed to Liverpool’s cause? 2 goals against Man City and that’s it and his performances have been hardly impressive. Every time he’s played we’ve been forced to play hoof ball and abandon the pass and move football that saw us thrash the likes of Birmingham and Fulham. Carroll was clearly an one-off panic buy. Kenny and Comolli should have simply kept the money for the summer transfer window where more players will be available and for a lower price. Liverpool have made a huge mistake on signing Carroll for 35m.
How have we “been forced to play hoofball” just because Carroll’s in the team. I’d be willing to bet that he doesn’t get in the changing room and start lecturing players that he doesn’t want to ball to feet and would much rather battle for balls launched from 60 yards away!
Chelsea have had the best big man in the Premiership for years and haven’t felt obligated to play hoofball, just as Fulham don’t with Zamora in the team, and neither should we with Carroll. His power can be a massive asset to the team, if used correctly.
Maybe it was a risk that didn’t need to be taken (if we could’ve spent the money elsewhere before the window shut), but it was a calculated risk, not a panic buy
What a terrible piece of s***e that you are after churning out. You talk about aguero and he would only cost 5 million more. Would you then play suarez and aguero together? That would never work. Dalglish has stated he has been purchased for the future. So you are prepared to judge him over a handful of games when that is exactly what dalglish has asked the fans not to do. Carroll will only flourish in a side that players wingers and it looks like dalglish is trying to sign wingers in this transfer market. What carroll gives dalglish is options. If we need to play a big man he can now do that if he wants. Give the player time. Did he not play well and look dangerous in the game that he scored 2 goals? Cant belive you are prepared to judge him after so little time. Moronic pointless article
FSG wanted carroll’s price + £15 for torres. good deal.
hey to be honest our big number 9 is little bit overpriced bt we have a long contract with him and before he got dat ingury he was flying high just score goal for fun rememba he score against us a good goal and so if you look for the future the big man will be our main man and he is great player so these tactical analysis of just few games and try to judge him in almost 9 games its nonsense coz he has already prove it is good striker and he still develope and learn the liverpool way whch require a striker to perform in dependence of midfield player
everyone knows he wasn’t worth £50mil but the deal was that Chelsea would pay £15mil more for Torres than the price we got Carroll for.
Because it was a last minute deal we had to pay over the odds to get him but that didn’t matter to us as it was Chelsea who stumped up the extra.
Can we move on from this story now…
Surely what John Henry said about the transfer is relevant here
“The negotiation for us was simply the difference in prices paid by Chelsea and to Newcastle. Those prices could have been £35million [from Chelsea for Torres] and £20million [to Newcastle for Carroll], 40 and 25 or 50 and 35. It was ultimately up to Newcastle how much this was all going to cost. They [Newcastle] made a hell of a deal. We felt the same way.”
You’re assuming that a player’s price is dictated solely by how good they are at playing football. Whereas you also have to consider a huge number of other variables (not all of which are relevant to the Carroll transfer)… e.g. length of contract, existance of buyout clause, need of selling club to raise funds, need of buying club for a player, the price of other similar players that are available, etc.
In our case, I believe that we had a need for a player, but also perhaps a greater need for our owners to show intent. To show that we weren’t going to allow one of our best players to leave, without replacing him with somebody who has the potential to be just as good/better. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ambition of the Carroll signing, helped convince Reina to stay. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it helps us to attract other star names.
Essentially, I feel that your question is one dimensional, and not very well thought out.
the biggest problem with andy carroll is trying to think of a song that fits his name.
LOL…
I think luis suarez is now worth 50Million.. and I think his presence and skill will improve Carrolls overall game.. and also up his worth..
great business!! Kenneth ya wee glaesga canny lad!
buy falcao…he’s class and great goal getter