Andy Carroll - Best Striker in the World

[Kenneth]

Agree re the owners, but absolutely nobody would have outbid a 35m bid from us this summer.

[lickedlollipop]

Or maybe not buying an injured player in Jan would have made more sense. Pretty sure we could have bought him this summer for less than we paid and Newcastle could have paid 6 months of wages.

i agree. and i don't know why we paid so much for injured player. yes i know we build for the future, but... (it was same mistake with Aquilani)

[EwarWoo]

Well, there were a couple of good reasons to go for him in January (although admittedly not entirely sure how 1 works or if I'm assuming rightly).

1. New financial period. FFPR comes into effect. Any profit from the January window would not carry over so it was spend it or bank it. They probably plan on sticking the max allowed amount in already, so whilst it would have aided their back pocket, it would not aid the club.

2. It didn't work out that way unfortunately, but if he'd clicked we'd be starting the season with 2 established strikers rather than having to spend the first half a season bedding 1 in.

[Bender]

i agree. and i don't know why we paid so much for injured player. yes i know we build for the future, but... (it was same mistake with Aquilani)

Panic buy ?

[Daniel 7]

Absolutely a panic buy designed to show the fans they weren't going to asset strip like the last lot.

Horrendous waste of money in wages and transfer fee. We could have had any number of better purchases across the team. Yes I know there wasn't much time, but they could have picked a far better option for the statement of intent.

The fans would have been hysterical with love for Suarez whatever

[Mostar]

Well, there were a couple of good reasons to go for him in January (although admittedly not entirely sure how 1 works or if I'm assuming rightly).

1. New financial period. FFPR comes into effect. Any profit from the January window would not carry over so it was spend it or bank it. They probably plan on sticking the max allowed amount in already, so whilst it would have aided their back pocket, it would not aid the club.

2. It didn't work out that way unfortunately, but if he'd clicked we'd be starting the season with 2 established strikers rather than having to spend the first half a season bedding 1 in.

FFPR were the main reason why spent 35m on Carroll + Athletic Bilbao didn't want to sell our other target Llorente and the whole Nando's saga happened at very end of the transfer window and we had to pay the premium for Newcastle's inability to find a replacement quickly.

[lickedlollipop]

Panic buy ?

probably only reason, yes.

[Daniel 7]

Just wish Mike Ashley had been in charge of Athletic Bilbao

[JohnDoe]

I'm still waiting for our team to set up Carroll with one good chance inside the box before ruling him out as a waste of money.

[Shaggy]

I'm still waiting for our team to set up Carroll with one good chance inside the box before ruling him out as a waste of money.

Haha. He hasn't had one, has he?

*racks brain*

Poor header over the bar v Spurs, and a header on target at Sunderland that was blocked on the line.

That's it, I think.

[Reece]

The header he scored against Citeh?

[Shaggy]

The header he scored against Citeh?

Ah, yeah. Well maybe it was just me as no-one else seemed to mention it but IMO he never touched that. Clear OG, all day long.

[Reece]

Lies!

[Shaggy]

He really didn't touch it.

Not that I'm complaining.

[Fredo]

Is he good just with just headers though? Wing play does seem so antiquated these days. How many goals have Barca scored via headers?