Andy Carroll - Best Striker in the World

[Tee]

And lets not forget how long it took a certain Peter Crouch to get settled.

Yes it is frustrating, but from the odd glimpses of AC's real potential we have already seen, I am certainly expecting him to come good and show us the player he really is.

[Slinky Skills]

I wish people would just get over his ****ing price tag, its done, the money has been spent, the best thing we all can do now is get behind the lad and encourage him and whilst the rest of the world might be getting on his back including the so caled fans of his own cities football club, the Liverpool faithful should be able to show him why we beleive our club is special otherwise we will turn into Chelsea with just a sea of cunts if we are not careful

People will always bang on about it, it's done now and we need to get on with it it's not going to make a blind bit of difference now.

Carroll is a good young player and under the guidance of those around him his career is only going to move forward and improve.

People will soon stop once he starts banging them in which like Crouch is only a matter of time.

[RichC]

Again you are linking the Torres and the Carroll buys. Why?

Just because Chelsea paid £50m didn't mean we had to spend money like a drunken sailor on shore leave.

You argument seems to be that its ok because we are not the biggest idiots in the room because there is someone even thicker than us. This does not hold water.

Why not try to be the smartest person in the room....

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/875987/john-w-henry:-andy-carroll-purchase-was-a-'hell-of-a-deal'?cc=5739

JWH explains the deal.

Are you now questioning the owners of the club?

[RichC]

Craig - Truefan

stop antagonising each other

Thanks.

[truefan999]

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...-deal'?cc=5739

JWH explains the deal.

Are you now questioning the owners of the club?

Yes! If they agreed to pay £35million for Andy Carroll then yes that decision needs to be questioned. Once Newcastle started asking for that kind of silly money we should have looked at other options.

[Alex]

If the owners are willing to pay, and we have the money. I really dont see a problem? Its not like buying Andy Carroll effected other purchases did it?

[truefan999]

Errrr yes it did.

1:It means that less money was available for other transfers
2:It means that all fees we have paid since have been vastly inflated unless dealing with players with little left on their contract.
3:The owners spent our club money on this and not their own. Thus far they have not spent any of their own money on transfers

[Rich]

Errrr yes it did.

1:It means that less money was available for other transfers
2:It means that all fees we have paid since have been vastly inflated unless dealing with players with little left on their contract.
3:The owners spent our club money on this and not their own. Thus far they have not spent any of their own money on transfers

But they did spend a sum paying off the majority of our debts and acquiring the club.

[Alex]

Errrr yes it did.

1:It means that less money was available for other transfers You assume
2:It means that all fees we have paid since have been vastly inflated unless dealing with players with little left on their contract. You assume
3:The owners spent our club money on this and not their own. Thus far they have not spent any of their own money on transfers Proof?

Tell me one incident where we didnt go for a player because we couldn't afford him? We got all of our targets, and the ones we supposedly lost out on were for footballing reasons.

[Neil Young]

Errrr yes it did.

1:It means that less money was available for other transfers
2:It means that all fees we have paid since have been vastly inflated unless dealing with players with little left on their contract.
3:The owners spent our club money on this and not their own. Thus far they have not spent any of their own money on transfers

This is a scandal.

They must be taken outside and shot to death until they admit the errors of their ways. It's the only solution.

[Fivex]

You're talking about truefan999 and who else?

[Neil Young]

To be on the safe side, everybody.

[truefan999]

But they did spend a sum paying off the majority of our debts and acquiring the club.

I never said that they did not. They bought the club and hence getting rid of most of our debts.

But that was a capital purchase and they got a bargain at the price that they paid.

But I do not think that we shall see them dipping into their own pockets to fund spending sprees. We will spend what we earn.

I do not have a problem with that. But that means wasting £35m is even more of a crime

[Neil Young]

Indeed. A crime of the very greatest magnitude.

[Alex]

I never said that they did not. They bought the club and hence getting rid of most of our debts.

But that was a capital purchase and they got a bargain at the price that they paid.

But I do not think that we shall see them dipping into their own pockets to fund spending sprees. We will spend what we earn.

I do not have a problem with that. But that means wasting £35m is even more of a crime

There you go. You see, you cant go around telling people what you think might happen is a fact.