Andy Carroll - Best Striker in the World

[Shaggy]

I like him too, as a person...he seems sound, nice guy, and as you say never said a bad word about us. But as a professional paid about £100k a week he's a bit of a joke.

[BobTheCharmer]

I like the fact he still does the things he would had he not been paid milions. Ten years agonid have loved to go out on the piss with him. Old school footballer. He never badmouthed us. I like him.

[Bender]

Dedicated professional

[ChesterDave]

Is Andy Carrol massively tall or is that midget next to him the taller sister of Jordan from The Apprentice

[Shaggy]

He's a joke really. I know they're entitled to let their hair down a bit but he repeatedly gets into massive tangles. £35m for that FFS

[Chazza]

Working hard in pre season.

[Gibbo]

Enjoying himself at Wireless.

[McDermotX]

Only £1m, that's pretty good on our part.

I think the tone of the article is that it was £1m more than we originally had agreed to settle on with Carroll. He'd be due a portion of the fee, as stipulated by his contract termination rights. What that is, God knows ? But the story is that we squeezed a little more of the overall transfer fee from WH in order to finagle Carroll agreeing to move.
Nothing earth-shattering if true, just best to get it over with and allow Brendan to move forward with other priorities.

[EwarWoo]

Only £1m, that's pretty good on our part.

That was my thought. Seems like he's taken a light pay off to ease through the transfer if anything.

Dunno how these reporters get away with it :/

[Muddled]

Isn't it normal to pay off players leaving at the clubs request?

Which is right ... and let's face it, we could say West Ham have paid for it with their initial loan fee or the £2m they give us when (or if) he meets certain targets.

£15.4m for Carroll.
£2m (?) for the loan.
£2m in potential extras.

It could have been *a lot* worse.

[cream]

Only £1m, that's pretty good on our part.

[Sarb]

Isn't it normal to pay off players leaving at the clubs request?

Yeah. If they don't ask for a transfer they usually get some sort of payment. As it's us and it's Carroll, the papers just want to ram it home what a waste of money that deal was

[Chazza]

Isn't it normal to pay off players leaving at the clubs request?

He didn't put in a transfer request so would have been due some sort of pay off.

[EwarWoo]

Isn't it normal to pay off players leaving at the clubs request?

[McDermotX]

Seen that alright.......I'd well believe it despite the source.

We're not very good at transfers.