Andy Carroll - Best Striker in the World

[Lee]

I really want Carroll to do well for us, whether this happens is another thing.

However he really needs to put the fee thing to the back of his mind. Of course it's not his fault that we paid so much, he just needs to concentrate about what's happening on the pitch and not all the talk off it.

[lickedlollipop]

I really want Carroll to do well for us, whether this happens is another thing.

However he really needs to put the fee thing to the back of his mind. Of course it's not his fault that we paid so much, he just needs to concentrate about what's happening on the pitch and not all the talk off it.

i'd say, start him in every game until the end of the season, and we'll c

[Roboklopp]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...price-tag.html

EXCLUSIVE: Carroll's £35m fee despair: Liverpool striker reveals price-tag torment

Misfiring Liverpool striker Andy Carroll has admitted privately that he is struggling to cope with the pressure of the £35million price tag that made him the most expensive British footballer.

Carroll and his Liverpool team-mates head to Blackburn tonight hoping to win only their second Barclays Premier League game since the end of January.

The former Newcastle striker has become symbolic of Liverpool's struggles, scoring just three times in the league this season.

Now it has emerged that the England international has admitted to friends that he has struggled to deal with the attention and pressure that came with a transfer fee that shocked the Premier League when Liverpool bought him in January last year.

It is understood that the 23-year-old is determined to make things work at Anfield and still believes he has what it takes to prove himself a valuable asset on Merseyside.
However, he feels his best form will not come until he can forget about the enormous amount Liverpool paid to take him to the North West from his home city. One friend of the mentally weak Carroll said this week: 'Andy isn't unhappy at Liverpool - he thinks Kenny Dalglish has been supportive and he still thinks he can make it work.

'But one of his main problems is the fact that Liverpool paid so much for him.

'He feels that the size of the fee wasn't his fault but that he has had to deal with the consequences of it being so huge and a record.'

Carroll has scored only five times in the Premier League since arriving at Anfield and only eight times for the club in total.

At Newcastle, he had an impressive record of 31 league goals in 57 league starts.

Dalglish is preparing to leave some of his key performers on the bench tonight against Blackburn at Ewood Park in an attempt to safeguard Liverpool's FA Cup ambitions.

Skipper Steven Gerrard is likely to be the biggest name held back ahead of Saturday's Wembley semi-final showdown against Everton, while leading goalscorer Luis Suarez and defender Daniel Agger could also be rested.

[Mostar]

Andy Carroll vs Villa comp


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[lickedlollipop]

Andy Carroll vs Villa comp

fixed for you

[Mostar]

I felt bad for him as I was making that comp.

I'm not his biggest fan and I don't think he is good fit for us period but I cannot help but to think that he has been mismanaged and that his lack of progress is not entirely his fault.

I'd play him every game from now till end of the season.

[lickedlollipop]

I felt bad for him as I was making that comp.

I'm not his biggest fan and I don't think he is good fit for us period but I cannot help but to think that he has been mismanaged and that his lack of progress is not entirely his fault.

I'd play him every game from now till end of the season.

[JohnDoe]

People who are writing him off are being way too premature.

Every good performance Carroll has managed this season has been met with a relegation to the bench a game afterwards. It is impossible for a striker to build any kind of rhythm or confidence when he's getting dropped regardless of his contribution on the pitch. Dalglish's mismanagement of Carroll is one of the worst I've ever seen from a manager.

Andy Carroll was a top class prospect who was playing for his boyhood club in the city he's grown up in. He was living the dream and had a wonderful start in the Premier League last season. We come in and offer a ridiculous amount of money for him. He doesn't want to leave but his greedy chairman makes it clear he wants him out at that price, so off he goes from his comfort zone at Newcastle to the pressure cooker of a "big club" with extremely high expectations as well as a huge price tag on his head.

He comes in injured and can't get consistent minutes in his first six months while struggling to adapt to his new surroundings. So a new season starts and you'd expect the manager who has spent 35 million pounds on you to have some faith and give you a consistent run of games, yet Andy Carroll gets treated like a rotation player. He plays well, he gets dropped. He doesn't play well, he gets dropped and slagged off and written off.

Does anyone remember how Rafa persisted with Crouch week in week out despite not scoring to send him the message that he's got his back no matter what?
Does Dalglish not owe it to himself to play the guy he's invested so much money in for more than 2 games in a row and give him a proper chance to settle down?

It's just bizarre.

[Mostar]

People who are writing him off are being way too premature.

Every good performance Carroll has managed this season has been met with a relegation to the bench a game afterwards. It is impossible for a striker to build any kind of rhythm or confidence when he's getting dropped regardless of his contribution on the pitch. Dalglish's mismanagement of Carroll is one of the worst I've ever seen from a manager.

Andy Carroll was a top class prospect who was playing for his boyhood club in the city he's grown up in. He was living the dream and had a wonderful start in the Premier League last season. We come in and offer a ridiculous amount of money for him. He doesn't want to leave but his greedy chairman makes it clear he wants him out at that price, so off he goes from his comfort zone at Newcastle to the pressure cooker of a "big club" with extremely high expectations as well as a huge price tag on his head.

He comes in injured and can't get consistent minutes in his first six months while struggling to adapt to his new surroundings. So a new season starts and you'd expect the manager who has spent 35 million pounds on you to have some faith and give you a consistent run of games, yet Andy Carroll gets treated like a rotation player. He plays well, he gets dropped. He doesn't play well, he gets dropped and slagged off and written off.

Does anyone remember how Rafa persisted with Crouch week in week out despite not scoring to send him the message that he's got his back no matter what?
Does Dalglish not owe it to himself to play the guy he's invested so much money in for more than 2 games in a row and give him a proper chance to settle down?

It's just bizarre.

In fairness, Crouch is more complete footballer that Andy.

To me Andy has so many holes in his game to make him a success with us.

He can be very good for mediocre club like NUFC (Yes I'm aware of their run this year but still..) but not at a club like us where there is so much expectations and pressure that you just don't get with mid table ambition teams.

[JohnDoe]

I was a fan of Crouch, but Carroll is and will be a much better player.

[dww]

Carroll is not currently better than Crouch. What Carroll might become remains open for me but Crouch has a consistently decent first touch, better movement and scores goals - none of which Carroll has demonstrated on a regular basis at PL level.

[Mostar]

I was a fan of Crouch, but Carroll is and will be a much better player.

For me Carroll is about as good as Khari Jones and it is too bad Rafa could not sign him as we would never ever seen Carroll if that had happened.

[Mostar]

Carroll is not currently better than Crouch. What Carroll might become remains open for me but Crouch has a consistently decent first touch, better movement and scores goals - none of which Carroll has demonstrated on a regular basis at PL level.

[Chris]

Get rid in the summer but in the meantime I'd have him in the team. Theres definitely something in the "him just being there helps Suarez" stuff.

[JohnDoe]

Carroll is not currently better than Crouch. What Carroll might become remains open for me but Crouch has a consistently decent first touch, better movement and scores goals - none of which Carroll has demonstrated on a regular basis at PL level.

You're comparing a Carroll who has no confidence to Crouch at his best.

Carroll's form at Newcastle last year was better than anything Crouch has shown his whole career. He was genuinely dominant.