Ronaldo Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 A fit Carroll can be absolutely deadly. Shearer, Les, Drogba, CRonaldo.. there's not that many strikers that you could say has the potential to match them in the air but he is one. I think he's better in the air than all of them, personally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Sticking around where you're emphatically told you're not wanted always works out well. Get out of town. They told him to fuck off, didn't they? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixx Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Carroll's sale measures up disappointment wise with us being relegated, for me. Finally seeing a really talented player coming through the ranks, and that a nr. 9 of all things, just to see him leave for a club I despise so much on the last transfer day was a massive kick in the nuts and should have confirmed to all that there is something fundamentally wrong with this regime. The transfer fee was of course ridiculous but making him leave on the last day without a replacement was insane and an insult to fans. No one knows if Carroll could have at least justified some of his transfer fee if he'd escape massive injuries in the past couple of years but Ashley and Pardew got lucky and Carroll's injuries "rationalized" the sale over time. For a sensible amount of money and if he's been injury free over a sustained period of time, I'd have him back in a heartbeat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 For a normal club, though, £35m for Andy Carroll is basically unrejectable, it's stupid money. When I say a normal club I of course mean one which isn't owned by a sovereign state like Southampton and one which will re-invest the money in players. For us we might as well have kept him, we need a decent forward more than a big wedge of cash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 For a normal club, though, £35m for Andy Carroll is basically unrejectable, it's stupid money. When I say a normal club I of course mean one which isn't owned by a sovereign state like Southampton and one which will re-invest the money in players. For us we might as well have kept him, we need a decent forward more than a big wedge of cash. We could have bought him back and still had a big pile of money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 A fit Carroll can be absolutely deadly. Shearer, Les, Drogba, CRonaldo.. there's not that many strikers that you could say has the potential to match them in the air but he is one. I think he's better in the air than all of them, personally. Fantastic at the leap/run up... but Shearer at least was able to score more types of headers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest n4e Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 A fit Carroll can be absolutely deadly. Shearer, Les, Drogba, CRonaldo.. there's not that many strikers that you could say has the potential to match them in the air but he is one. His aerial ability alone would earn us more points than Shola has in his entire career. I don't know what it is about the long haired freak, but I can't help but feel happy when he's doing well, even after he tried to con us playing for Pool. Remember begrudgingly grinning like a cheshire when he scored at Wembley for England. I'm absolutley convinced he hasn't once tried to score a goal against us b/c he clearly doesn't want to. I know he's a bit of a partier, but everything I've heard is that he's a cracking lad. I do get a rush of pride seeing him bully defenders man - the way he attacks headers is a work of art as well. Still bit pissed Nolan and Carroll are gone - esp Nolan. Top leader man. I would have had a lot more respect for him if he scored and just didn't celebrate like a dick. He tried to get a player sent off and they probably still would have scored if the ref fell for it. If he really didn't want to score he should have just pretended to try and smash it in an hoof it way over the bar/wide. He chose the worst option possible and knew exactly what he was doing. That'll never sit right with me. Cracked me up when Shane Long done both against WBA the other week mind. Refused to celebrate when he scored out of respect but was happy enough to take a dive and cheat against them later in the game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Only 13 mins in and easily the best player of the pitch so far. Never seen so much football in the air mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlelunchbox Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Pardew would quite literally wank himself to death every night if he had a player like AC back in his team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 So would I. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlelunchbox Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 fair enough Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leazes1986 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Rumours going around he could be out for 4 months with an ankle problem. Such a shame the way his career is going. I have heard on more than one occasion that his ankle is fucked over the last year like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 It'll be a beautiful day when the people who want Carroll back finally give up and admit he's worth nothing and hasn't been for years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 £50m plus in two transfers man. Even in the over-inflated English young player market that's just stupid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Rumours going around he could be out for 4 months with an ankle problem. Such a shame the way his career is going. I have heard on more than one occasion that his ankle is fucked over the last year like. Why is it a shame? Pisshead footballer who shit on his hometown club at the first opportunity possible. Beggars belief how people still fawn over Carroll. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 He's got a major injury again?! Man, that's messed up. This guy is done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Too bad, but saves us from any potential panic buying. Hope he returns to proper full and extended fitness but it's looking grim at this stage, not just physically but mentally right now he most. We on the brink. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leazes1986 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Rumours going around he could be out for 4 months with an ankle problem. Such a shame the way his career is going. I have heard on more than one occasion that his ankle is fucked over the last year like. Why is it a shame? Pisshead footballer who shit on his hometown club at the first opportunity possible. Beggars belief how people still fawn over Carroll. The club wanted him out just as much as he wanted to make the move, probably more. I am not bitter or angry about it, I just liked him as a player and don't have any bad feelings about him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Rumours going around he could be out for 4 months with an ankle problem. Such a shame the way his career is going. I have heard on more than one occasion that his ankle is fucked over the last year like. Yeah but ankle in London means Mam or Dad's brother. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Rumours going around he could be out for 4 months with an ankle problem. Such a shame the way his career is going. I have heard on more than one occasion that his ankle is fucked over the last year like. Why is it a shame? Pisshead footballer who shit on his hometown club at the first opportunity possible. Beggars belief how people still fawn over Carroll. Being sold for big money from a club who make it clear they want you to leave doesn't constitute shitting on anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest H09 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Any correlation between heavy drinkers and injuries because Gazza and Bryan Robson were made of glass as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Rumours going around he could be out for 4 months with an ankle problem. Such a shame the way his career is going. I have heard on more than one occasion that his ankle is f***ed over the last year like. Why is it a shame? Pisshead footballer who s*** on his hometown club at the first opportunity possible. Beggars belief how people still fawn over Carroll. Being sold for big money from a club who make it clear they want you to leave doesn't constitute shitting on anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 His style of play is more to due his injuries than his life style for me, he keeps getting ankle injuries and quite frankly he wouldn't be the first big striker to suffer that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 The most criminal thing about the Carroll deal was that we didn't have a contingency plan. Anyone would have sold him for what we did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I doubt we were counting on anyone being desperate enough to pay that mind. Didn't we reject about £25m from Spurs the day before? We ended up with Ba in the next window so worked out in the end just about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now