Andy Carroll - Best Striker in the World

[Rowan]

lol - a nice scouse bird that wants to settle down, stay in and not go clubbing when they're married to a millionaire footballer!!! not going to happen

Did you let out a huge, sad sigh after you'd typed that?

[PTP]

I always feel I should defer to your experience in matters of this sort.

- i have many tales of wags or wannabe wags in liverpool but i couldn't possible tell the stories on here.

[kingfunk]

I fear Andy might be developing Schizophrenia.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

- i have many tales of wags or wannabe wags in liverpool but i couldn't possible tell the stories on here.

FFS Ptp do tell, i just read the whole thread.

[Rudo]

Tony Barrett: Andy Carroll totally different than I'd expected today. Quiet, shy, polite, nervous even.

[spud_gun]

@honigstein
raphael honigstein
btw. I'm told Mike Ashley brazenly upped Carroll prize by £10m on Monday. Liverpool thought they had understanding for £25m

[Cormack74]

@honigstein
raphael honigstein
btw. I'm told Mike Ashley brazenly upped Carroll prize by £10m on Monday. Liverpool thought they had understanding for £25m

Once the fact that we were skinning the chavs for £50m came out, I guess the Carroll fee was only ever going to sky rocket.

Thank goodness Suarez was wrapped up by then or no doubt Ajax would have done the same.

[Rudo]

Kenny:
"I am desperate to see him because I want to see one hung up in the box, in front of the Kop, and him charging in on a header. I would love to be inside the mind of the defender who is standing underneath it waiting for it to come in, and waiting for Andy to plough over the top of him,"

[Kenneth]

Kenny:
"I am desperate to see him because I want to see one hung up in the box, in front of the Kop, and him charging in on a header. I would love to be inside the mind of the defender who is standing underneath it waiting for it to come in, and waiting for Andy to plough over the top of him,"

[Mostar]

Kenny:
"I am desperate to see him because I want to see one hung up in the box, in front of the Kop, and him charging in on a header. I would love to be inside the mind of the defender who is standing underneath it waiting for it to come in, and waiting for Andy to plough over the top of him,"

Love it

[Mostar]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/feb/04/andy-carroll-liverpool

Andy Carroll says he has matured but vows not to change at Liverpool

To Andy Carroll, the price of becoming Liverpool's record signing is not £35m but a life under greater scrutiny than he has ever known. He did not fare well before swapping Newcastle for a city of split loyalties and the mantle of Britain's most expensive footballer, as a conviction for common assault, training-ground scraps and the repainted garage doors at Kevin Nolan's house illustrate. Yet he sees no reason to alter a character that, more than Luis Suárez's goalscoring debut, has encouraged Liverpool to look beyond Fernando Torres.

"I don't mind a pint now and again but that is the way I have been brought up," Carroll said at his official Anfield unveiling yesterday. "That's who I am and I am not really going to change. I am not. I am just going to carry on playing my football, keep my head down and do it at the right time. I have made some mistakes in the past but they are all behind me."

The 22-year-old insists he has matured, although it was only four months ago that he was ordered to live with Nolan as a condition of bail following a charge, since dropped, of assaulting an ex-girlfriend. Kenny Dalglish, his new manager, was unhappy at the line of questioning to his new recruit and stressed that Liverpool are content with their acquisition and to leave doubts over Carroll's temperament and transfer fee to others. He need not have bothered, as Carroll handled the introduction as confidently as he has taken to the Premier League.

Anyone expecting six foot, four inches and £35m worth of immaturity and aggression would have been deeply disappointed at Anfield. Carroll told Dalglish he was initially apprehensive of facing the media but was relaxed, self-assured but not arrogant as his manager wants Liverpool to be, and acutely aware of his responsibilities.

"It is a lot of money to spend," admitted Carroll, who refused to divulge any details of his acrimonious exit from St James' Park. "I have only really had half a season in the Premier League; but that is the confidence the manager has in me and that is what I am here to repay.

"I am aware that the spotlight's on me. Whoever it was, given the money they have spent on me, was going to be followed around. I know they will be watching what I'm doing. I am aware of that. I have to deal with it and take it in my stride. Newcastle was my home town; I loved it and I loved the fans. I have come down for something like that and to love the fans like I did up there."

Carroll has already had a taste of Liverpool's nightlife through his friendship with Newcastle's Scouse trio of Nolan, Joey Barton and Ryan Taylor. He would have set foot on the Anfield pitch before his introduction against Stoke City on Wednesday but Barton's dismissal against Liverpool in May 2009 stopped his imminent substitution. His assimilation into Liverpool holds no concerns for Dalglish.

"Apart from his abilities as a footballer I think what will be endearing to our supporters will be his innocence," the Liverpool manager said. "It is a difficult thing to leave your home city and he has only just turned 22 so it is massive for him. They can relate to him and will accept him as one of their own."

The only annoyance for Dalglish, aside from the questions, is the thigh injury that will postpone the Carroll-Suárez partnership for a few more weeks.

"I am desperate to see him because I want to see one hung up in the box, in front of the Kop, and him charging in on a header. I would love to be inside the mind of the defender who is standing underneath it waiting for it to come in, and waiting for Andy to plough over the top of him," he said.

Off-the-field has proven problematic but the centre-forward's nature is what also led him to ask Chris Hughton for the revered No9 shirt at Newcastle, to leave Fabio Capello in raptures at his introduction into the England squad, and to take the No9 shirt vacated by Torres at Anfield.

"I have been in the headlines for the wrong reasons and been reading headlines about me travelling to Sunday games, but I know I can play football, I know I can score goals and so I can handle the spotlight," Carroll said.

"How good is he going to be?" Dalglish pondered. "I don't know. But right at this particular moment in time I would say he is as good as anybody that could play for the English national side."

[SB]

They're doing their job.

You'll understand when you get one

And i already have one by the way :bird:

So how is the paper run going by the way ? And the lemonade stand going well too ?

[SB]

Dom, that place is a total joke. I once took a girl there on a sunday for coffee and teacakes and it cost me almost £20 ****ing quid! And she still dumped me a few days later. Slut

She was probably a Tequila slammer girl and you gave her coffee and tea cakes.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

Lemonade stand? that's a usa/Australia thing,no?

[Alex]

Apparently Nolan has had to aplogise to the Newcastle fans for saying Carroll has joined a good club.



We should have asked them to lump Nolan in, just to keep Carroll under control.