Andy Carroll

[Bender]

think BR should keep carroll am sure carroll can learn tikitaki football also it's about having a a proper squad not just a starting 11

[Gibbo]

Word on the Twitter waves is that West Ham have offered £18million for the big guy.

Do we take it?

[Lee]

Doesn't matter if we accept it. Because he won't.

He's better than West Ham.

[Mattshark]

Doesn't matter if we accept it. Because he won't.

He's better than West Ham.

[expected comment] He isn't, that is his level [/expected comment]

[Chris]

Word on the Twitter waves is that West Ham have offered £18million for the big guy.

Do we take it?

Defo, though it's only come from David Sullivans school kid son saying they were trying to do a deal that would double their transfer record.

[dom9]

BBC ticker

FOOTBALL West Ham step up interest in Liverpool striker Andy Carroll by making a bid that could potentially break their transfer record

[Shaggy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18995674

[Leyton388]

We are not going to loan him out as we have said that already. BBC saying it could be a loan with a £15m transfer next summer. That isn't going to happen IMO Rodgers has already said as such.

[kris90210]

We are not going to loan him out as we have said that already. BBC saying it could be a loan with a £15m transfer next summer. That isn't going to happen IMO Rodgers has already said as such.

I hate deals like that as they invariably favour the buying club. Say he was to go there and play out of his skin, we're locked into a 15mil fee. If he goes there and is ****, there's no way they'd honour the agreement.

I'd rather he was loaned without a committment to buy than loaned under those circumstances.

[Exiled_red]

I'd keep him.

If we let him go and get £15-20m for him, we'll still need to buy a striker, as there don't seem to be any obvious bargains out there we'll probably spend it all on a replacement. Plus we'll have to pay a signing on fee, maybe pay Carroll off (and maybe be forced to pay some of wages), I don't see us being any better off by selling him, his form was promising towards the end of last season and now he has a point to prove, if it doesn't work out with him I don't see his value dropping, and if he does well his value will rise.

[Fan65]

Go back to my first reply and you will find the answer in there










It winds me up when people start doing accounting analysis with bollocks such as "we actually got Carroll for free plus £15m on top". It's all cobbles and is incorrect anyway as people disgard the original money invested in wages and transfer fees - in this case the fee LFC initially paid to acquire Torres. As Cream and Dan have said - we paid/wasted £35M. The whole whole Carroll saga and the sums involved is surreal

What a daft reply.

[Kenneth]

What a daft reply.

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[Shaggy]

Persistent West Ham make club-record bid for Andy Carroll

Tony Barrett, Gary Jacob
Published 1 minute ago

The race to sign Andy Carroll intensified last night when West Ham United offered a club-record transfer fee for the out-of-favour Liverpool forward.

West Ham will pay £2 million to loan Carroll for the season, meet his £80,000-per-week wages and will guarantee a permanent deal for a further £16 million, if the club avoid relegation.

Carroll is understood to prefer a return to Newcastle United, who have offered to take him on loan for the season with the option of a £15 million deal next summer. Liverpool immediately rebuffed that proposal and were perplexed by Newcastle’s request for them to continue paying a significant portion of the England striker’s £80,000-a-week wages.

Alan Pardew, the Newcastle manager, had attempted to put pressure on Liverpool by claiming they would have to accept making a significant loss on Carroll but West Ham’s offer has put the ball back in Newcastle’s court.

[Daniel 7]

Pardew's been a bit cunty about all this

[cream]

The West Ham deal sounds good, hope it comes off.