The young Liverpool forward who started his career at local club Newcastle United and went on to win promotion to the premier league with them, before a mid season move to Liverpool, has had to deal with enormous amounts of criticism and praise in his short career. He has been hailed as the new Shearer, and future of England's attack, and been called a talentless no hoper who lucked his way to a move to one of the most well-known clubs in the world off of 4 months of decent form. This is my opinion on how good he really is, and on his potential.
In my opinion, Andy Carroll is not ever going to be a target man good enough to play against the worlds best. He will be a premiership striker, and will have a good career, making huge sums of money for himself, but he has got nothing in the way of technical ability with the ball nor the speed of thought to cause defenders of the Nesta, Stam, Lucio or Blanc mold. For a player of that style to cause problems against the cream of the crop of defenders all over the world, they have to be far more talented than Andy Carroll. Fernando Llorente is the ideal, he is what Carroll aims to be, but bigger, stronger, more intelligent and talented in far more aspects of forward play.
Carroll has come in for a lot of abuse he has never deserved due to the price tag/expectations placed upon him. He is a good player though. He has good movement. He can cause problems and can score goals.
But against a top defence, we genuinely might as well play Martin Johnson. At least then, they would feel fear for some reason.
Carroll will inevitably fail at Liverpool, and I feel for him, but he's just not good enough for a club with the heights they have their eyes set on. My Brother happens to be only a few weeks Carroll's senior and I still see him as a kid who I need to look after at times. Carroll will end up at a Stoke or some such, and probably be a superstar there. But that will be his level. England's future forwards will be,
Welbeck (certainly)
Sturridge (certainly talent-wise, hopefully will not spoil it for himself)
Chamberlain (if he develops his game to play as a wide forward, ala Sturridge)
And a back up of new youngsters yet to fully emerge.
Andy Carroll - Joking aside
posted on 18/4/12
It was a panic buy and I don't think he will ever be good enough for a club like Liverpool. Just look at the striking talent that has come through your club over the years; Andy Carroll doesn't come close and I don't believe he will ever cut it at the top level.
Liverpool will have to give him a chance to prove everyone wrong, simply because they spent £35 million on him, but I can see him being given a season - at most - to find his form before being loaned out and finally sold at a huge loss; because if he doesn't produce the goods, you won't recoup anywhere near what you paid.
posted on 18/4/12
I'm not saying Carroll is an exceptionally bog-thick barking Geordie, it seems he is less sensitive to criticism than the other fella
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The Press:- 'Carroll drinking shocker', 'Carroll 35m waste of space', 'Carroll - Donkey'.
Kenny:- take notice of these parasites son. You can dae a gud job for us, ignore it.
Carroll:- Alreet! Why Aye boss!!! can we go oot and see boyzone again?
Kenny: Naw... we canny.
posted on 18/4/12
It was a panic buy
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It wasn't a panic buy.
The way the transfer unravelled on the last day of the January transfer window as Torres was leaving makes it look like we took him on a whim, but we'd been looking at him for some time.
posted on 18/4/12
comment by FatJanMolby (U4297)
posted 6 minutes ago
It was a panic buy
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It wasn't a panic buy.
The way the transfer unravelled on the last day of the January transfer window as Torres was leaving makes it look like we took him on a whim, but we'd been looking at him for some time.
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Yeh, the price may have been affected by the lateness of the deal, but he must have already been on your radar. Whether the club were forced into moving for him before they were sure he was the right man is another matter - but I am sure that he was already been looked at by LFC.
posted on 18/4/12
He was flavour of month at the time, he played 4 months of PL football, and you paid £35m for him following the sale of Torress for £50m.
Regardless of weather he'd been previously scouted or enquired about, it certainly comes across as a panic buy.
posted on 18/4/12
It was a panic buy. No idea why people claim it wasn't.
The fact is though many teams would have liked to sign him at the time, just we were the only ones with the money available to sign him at the time.
Spurs bid 30m pounds for example.
posted on 18/4/12
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posted on 18/4/12
Perhaps you're right greatteams.
Most of what we hear is hearsay though.
posted on 18/4/12
Carroll was a panic buy, because Suarez was purchased to play with Torres, not replace him.
Ourselves and Spurs were interested. but the price paid and the fact that the new owners had to bring in a replacement in a very short period of time, it certainly looked that way to me.
Could you have imagined the furore if they hadn't bought another player? At the time the perception would have been that the new owners were no better than H&G who basically asset stripped the squad in the last couple of years.
I nearly choked on my morning cuppa when I saw the fee, but that doesn't mean I don't believe he can be an asset for the team.
The heat was on to bring in a replacement, hence a degree of panic and the grossly inflated fee paid.
posted on 18/4/12
"He has been hailed as the new Shearer"
"He will be a premiership striker, and will have a good career, making huge sums of money for himself, but he has got nothing in the way of technical ability with the ball nor the speed of thought to cause defenders of the Nesta, Stam, Lucio or Blanc mold."
Sounds like Shearer already...