Andy Carroll - Best Striker in the World

[spider-neil]

Downing?

Completely forgot about him. It's easily done

[spider-neil]

Surprised Newcastle haven't come in with a bid to bring on of their own back home.

[DKdan]

The 25% sell on clause is only applicable to profit made according to Tony Barrett.

I know - profit on £35m for him

We should have snug in a 25% sell on clause, only applicable to loss made. Damn accountants!

[Sarb]

Completely forgot about him. It's easily done

He's almost non-existent

[Lee]

That was my reaction upon reading.

Ineptitude of gargantuan proportions.

Sack Parry!

Just seen the updated news about the sell-on clause.

25% if we make a profit on him indeed.

[kingfunk]

Surprised Newcastle haven't come in with a bid to bring on of their own back home.

Mike Ashley is too busy rolling around the floor laughing since we bought him.

[Mattshark]

Mike Ashley is too busy rolling around the floor laughing since we bought him.

This has to be the most ridiculous transfer of all time.

[spud_gun]

I believe the 25% is on any profit made (Barrett just tweeted this). So you may as well forget us having to pay any of that 25%. Won't ever make a profit on that 35m

Oh well that makes is so much better.

Newcastle dry bummed us and then made us apologise.

[spider-neil]

Mike Ashley is too busy rolling around the floor laughing since we bought him.

You say that but Newcastle were flirting with relagation whilst West Ham were safe with weeks to spare.

[Lee]

This has to be the most ridiculous transfer of all time.

Difficult to think of a worse transfer really.

Shame. We all really wanted him to do well and he was excellent (well, from what I saw) at Newcastle in the couple of months prior to us signing him.

His limitations were hopelessly exposed though. Even when he had that run of good games towards the end of last season he was so frustrating. He'd knock the ball down on the halfway line, hold it up, lay it off and then just potter around rather than busting a neck to get up and support our attackers.

[Shaggy]

A truly insane transfer. So depressing and frustrating. To think most of us could and would genuinely have spent that money better than Kenny and Comolli did.

[RedReet]

It's possible that at the end of this transfer window the only Kenny signing left will be Henderson.

Adam
Carroll - virtually out the door
Suarez - will he be here come Aguust?
Enrique - I think Bendan wants ridHenderson - Doubt he'll be sold

What makes you think that?

I think he's won Brendan over, even if he does believe we can still improve that position. Definitely worth keeping as a versatile player IMO and also his strength can be useful against certain opposition.

[Neil Young]

Without amortising and P&I...zzzz

Just forget he has ever played for us for a brief second. Today is the day we bought Andy Carroll. We payed 35m. Ok so a minute later we are now in the present.
We had a pot with 35m in it, it's now empty, after we sell him to West Ham how much dough is in the pot?

I wouldn't for a moment suggest he was anything more than pretty crap for us and that £35m seems ridiculous compared to deals like, for instance, the one that got us Suárez. It adds nothing though to talk about the money spent (or wasted) in any detail if we don't know how accounting works.

It's the fallacy of detail really; it's used to bolster an argument that he was a bad buy and a poor player. Well, ok, but no one here really disagrees with that. So let's just say that and not get into speculation about how the club's accountants will choose to calculate the loss and offset it against tax liabilities or whatever.

Or if we have to then let's not just ignore what someone who does know what they're talking about because it doesn't fit our simplistic - and simply wrong - notions of accounting. Especially when it changes nothing of substance in the original contention which is that Carroll was not worth the money we paid and have lost, however much that might be.

[Neil Young]

A truly insane transfer. So depressing and frustrating. To think most of us could and would genuinely have spent that money better than Kenny and Comolli did.

I'd have bought a house and a few bikes and saved the rest.

[Sarb]

A truly insane transfer. So depressing and frustrating. To think most of us could and would genuinely have spent that money better than Kenny and Comolli did.

Yep.Remember the summer when we chased Downing for months and finally signed him towards the end of the window. Totally depressing. Not sure what Kenny was thinking buying the players he did that summer