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Most sources were saying we would accept £35m, based on not much AFAICS. SSN then said they had heard a bid had been accepted of £35m. David Craig then said he had it from good sources that Liverpool had offered £35m plus addons taking the deal to around £40m. Then Newcastle released a statement saying the offer had been rejected.

Common man, with £50m we could buy 5 or 6 players that would all improve their respective positions in our team. Its a team game and one player doesn't make a team.

£50m here we come

Bid rejected

This again, how many times do people have to say that we have never ended up in profit on transfers under Ashley before it sinks in. Why should this time be any different?

Quite a few on here have lost the plot completely, some of the shit being posted now is beyond mong level.

You're a mong, sorry but that post is thick as fuck

Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. Look, I understand that. I know its a lot of money. But Ashley should know that Carroll is irreplaceable. He's not going to get anyone better in, certainly not someone with the potential to be what Carroll could be for us over the next ten years. Ashley has fucked up so many times before, and Carroll does not want to leave. Ashley should get behind Carroll and the fans for once, and just hold on for one day. If Carroll went for the same price in the summer, at the start of the summer, then fair enough. We could rebuild the squad decently. But now, with no replacements that we know of lined up (since no one in January could replace him for sensible money), this is a stupid, stupid decision. Money is NOT everything in football. And if it is, now, then the game's a shadow of what it once was. Why do we need to get someone better in? How about using any money we receive (IF is happens) to improve the team overall. We could get a new winger (£10m), new striker (£15m), second striker (£10m). By 11pm tonight? We don't have goalscoring strikers. We could end up back in the Championship come May. Don't be fucking daft, we have goalscorers in the team, if you want any evidence of that, see our last 4 games without Carroll. We also have 30 points already, we aren't going to collapse and suddenly only get half a point per game average just because Carroll is gone. My point is its totally short sighted to talk about how any money we receive wouldn't get us a better striker then Carroll, as if the only way to go is to spunk £35m on a replacement. The intelligent way to go would be to spend it on 3 or 4 players that would all improve our first team.

The silly cunt is going on David Craig who actually said the opposite in his report. He said no price was put out by Newcastle and just said he thought any offer would have to be "significantly north of £30m for Newcastle to even consider it".

Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. Look, I understand that. I know its a lot of money. But Ashley should know that Carroll is irreplaceable. He's not going to get anyone better in, certainly not someone with the potential to be what Carroll could be for us over the next ten years. Ashley has fucked up so many times before, and Carroll does not want to leave. Ashley should get behind Carroll and the fans for once, and just hold on for one day. If Carroll went for the same price in the summer, at the start of the summer, then fair enough. We could rebuild the squad decently. But now, with no replacements that we know of lined up (since no one in January could replace him for sensible money), this is a stupid, stupid decision. Money is NOT everything in football. And if it is, now, then the game's a shadow of what it once was. Why do we need to get someone better in? How about using any money we receive (IF is happens) to improve the team overall. We could get a new winger (£10m), new striker (£15m), second striker (£10m).

Oh fuck off

Link? It's on his twitter. Did you actually take any notice of the account? It is definitely him. What? It is the real Shaun Custis. He is a bit of a clown but he is a Newcastle fan. I know who he f***ing is, and he isn't a joker who's going to make a twitter account like that.. He was the first to break the £35m done deal. The first to break what £35m deal?

Link? It's on his twitter. Did you actually take any notice of the account? It is definitely him. What? It is the real Shaun Custis. He is a bit of a clown but he is a Newcastle fan. I know who he fucking is, and he isn't a joker who's going to make a twitter account like that..

Yup, where the hell would our goals come from!? Thats right - they wouldn't. We've scored 8 goals (and gotten 8 points) from the 4 games Carroll has missed so far. I definitely want him to stay, for the future, but to say we can't score goals without him is nonsense.

Link? It's on his twitter. Did you actually take any notice of the account? It is definitely him. What?

Link? It's on his twitter. Did you actually take any notice of the account?

Link?

Nah can't see us telling them what we want when they've just gotten £50m for Torres, that's terrible negotiating, its just not Ashley.

Makes sense to cancel the press conference if we know that more bids for Carroll are going to come in. As all the questions in the conference will end up being about Carroll and the manager can't talk about it confidently until we know the outcome. Doesn't mean he's gone or a fee has been agreed at all IMO.

Why would cancelling a press conference mean we've sold Carroll?

Would be interesting/worrying to see how desperate Liverpool would get if Torres left, and we kept rejecting their bids. Well there's the flaw in that plan Ashley is the kind that can smell desperation a mile off. If Liverpool have just received £50m for Torres and there's only hours left I can seem him rejecting further bids from them and trying to milk them dry right up to the last hour. IF we sell.

Have to say my first thought when I saw the fee Liverpool had agreed for Suarez was "over priced", might be wrong, I suppose we'll see soon enough.

People are arguing that he's worth more then Suarez, and I'd agree simply because he's a very rare kind of striker. Arguing that one player is better then another completely different player, especially when they're playing in two very different leagues is pretty stupid IMO. Though obviously Carroll is the safer bet in this league.

says who? If you think Carroll is better than Suarez, you're daft. How exactly are you comparing two totally different players on who is better? Especially when one hasn't even played in this country, that's daft IMO. Carroll is probably the best striker of his kind I can think of, Suarez is very good, but there's plenty like him.