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Because if someone comes in with a bid of £30m for a player, no matter who he is, that's a serious offer that would be accepted by most chairmen and for most players.

 

Only Man City would offer that much for a striker with 11 goals in the Premier League. I would imagine Spurs' offer to be somewhere near half that.

 

But anyway, even if we did receive a tempting offer such as that, everyone knows you're loaded and you won't get deals like the Ben Arfa or Tiote one. A they know you're desperate for a replacement and B they know you're flush with cash. Look how much Liverpool forked out for Aquilani after the whole world saw them get a huge amount for Alonso.

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And the 'breaking' Carroll news is hardly revelatory either. Redknapp was told there'd be no sale after the game at Spurs last Tues.

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Because if someone comes in with a bid of £30m for a player, no matter who he is, that's a serious offer that would be accepted by most chairmen and for most players.

 

Of course it is.

 

He's a very promising player, but 30 million pounds is a huge amount of money for a player with so little top flight experience. This isn't just about Ashley or Newcastle, every single chairman in the league - bar one or possibly two - would think very, very seriously about that sort of cash.

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http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6635801,00.html

 

How can they keep stirring like that?

 

"The controversial business plans of Mike Ashley are also a factor, with conjecture suggesting that the Newcastle owner is running the club as a business in his long-term plans to sell-up and that he would be prepared to listen to offers for any player."

 

We've just been asked how much we wanted, and we said fuck off.  How can this suggest we'll listen to any offer?

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How can they keep stirring like that?

 

"The controversial business plans of Mike Ashley are also a factor, with conjecture suggesting that the Newcastle owner is running the club as a business in his long-term plans to sell-up and that he would be prepared to listen to offers for any player."

 

We've just been asked how much we wanted, and we said fuck off.  How can this suggest we'll listen to any offer?

 

This is what I hate about the football press... they just invent absolute bollocks based on total speculation.

 

It also annoys me when my Dad believes it all and is convinced Ashley is looking to asset-strip the club.

 

Totally infuriating.

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http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6635801,00.html

 

How can they keep stirring like that?

 

"The controversial business plans of Mike Ashley are also a factor, with conjecture suggesting that the Newcastle owner is running the club as a business in his long-term plans to sell-up and that he would be prepared to listen to offers for any player."

 

We've just been asked how much we wanted, and we said f*** off.  How can this suggest we'll listen to any offer?

 

They do have around the clock sports and news channels to keep going. They can, arguably, get more mileage out of inventing stories than they do out of reporting real facts.

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Because if someone comes in with a bid of £30m for a player, no matter who he is, that's a serious offer that would be accepted by most chairmen and for most players.

 

Of course it is.

 

He's a very promising player, but 30 million pounds is a huge amount of money for a player with so little top flight experience. This isn't just about Ashley or Newcastle, every single chairman in the league - bar one or possibly two - would think very, very seriously about that sort of cash.

 

Yup agree with this, I would not sell for less but 30M is serious money. For some perspective of how much 30M is, VDV cost 8M, Edin Dzeko the most sought after striker cost City 27M, Ozil the hottest property after the WC cost Madrid 16.6M...so if we put sentiments aside, 30M for Carroll is a lot of money.

 

I take Ohmelads point that prices might be inflated if other clubs know that we have 30M to burn, but we can do the transfers simultaneously and only pull all the triggers at the same time when we got the deal we want, in other words don't sell till we got the deal for the 3-4 players we want sorted. 

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Carroll's nowhere near good enough man  :lol:

 

Your mental if you think Carroll has suddendly become a good player after playing a good twenty mins for us,every other time I have seen him play hes being pure shit.

 

Carroll is shit.

 

He'd be out of his depth in the baby pool at wet n wild.

 

Awful, awful footballer. At this level anyway.

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Anyone actually think Fat Mike got a plan for this? I mean, £30+ mill and he still says NO? I think that's a highly doubtful scenario... Fat Mike will unfortunately be willing to cash in any priced assets to try to run his cash account in ++++++++++ cuz them McDonalds are starting to increase in price - needs to keep his weight up! :)

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Carroll's nowhere near good enough man  :lol:

 

Your mental if you think Carroll has suddendly become a good player after playing a good twenty mins for us,every other time I have seen him play hes being pure shit.

 

Carroll is shit.

 

He'd be out of his depth in the baby pool at wet n wild.

 

Awful, awful footballer. At this level anyway.

 

Are you Stu? Are you Stu? Are you stuey in disguise?

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Carroll's nowhere near good enough man  :lol:

 

Your mental if you think Carroll has suddendly become a good player after playing a good twenty mins for us,every other time I have seen him play hes being pure shit.

 

Carroll is shit.

 

He'd be out of his depth in the baby pool at wet n wild.

 

Awful, awful footballer. At this level anyway.

 

2 years ago he didn't look a 10th of the player he does now, his improvement has been nothing short of ashtonishing. 

 

Petty as fuck to bring that up. 

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At that time he was nowhere near ready.

 

Even this time last year he was struggling to score in the Championship!

 

I think even 4 or 5 games in this season I am on record saying he looks decent but lacks a goalscoring threat

 

Yeah, only scored a hattrick against Villa. :lol: (That was 2 games into the season, btw)

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One season wonder.

 

nobody knows but when we talk of potential it could go both ways. He could be England's next main striker or he could just be a one season wonder. That is why taking 30M and getting a player who has been proven at the highest level many seasons over plus 1-2 more players is a really good deal

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I remember seeing him play against Birmingham when they beat us 5-1 in the League Cup a few years ago. At the time he was so awful that I just wanted to punch him, and I was hoping that they wouldn't offer him a pro contract.

 

How times have changed.

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I remember seeing him play against Birmingham when they beat us 5-1 in the League Cup a few years ago. At the time he was so awful that I just wanted to punch him, and I was hoping that they would offer him a pro contract.

 

How times have changed.

 

Aye, when he was a "white Shola."

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One season wonder.

 

nobody knows but when we talk of potential it could go both ways. He could be England's next main striker or he could just be a one season wonder. That is why taking 30M and getting a player who has been proven at the highest level many seasons over plus 1-2 more players is a really good deal

 

There's also the factor that while Ashley is always one crazy decision from the next, you also get the feeling Carroll's one night out away from his next incident that could end him in jail.

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