Author Topic: Andy Carroll (Read 115245 times)

stoa · « **Reply #760 on:** August 17, 2019, 06:37:49 pm »

Quote from: Rick-40 on August 10, 2019, 12:21:29 am

Its all air.

Like a beachball...

Chakan · « **Reply #761 on:** August 17, 2019, 06:38:45 pm »

Has he played a game yet?

Zlen · « **Reply #762 on:** August 17, 2019, 06:52:27 pm »

Quote from: Chakan on August 17, 2019, 06:38:45 pm

Has he played a game yet?

Since he left Liverpool?
Don’t think so.

Chakan · « **Reply #763 on:** August 17, 2019, 06:53:24 pm »

Quote from: Zlen on August 17, 2019, 06:52:27 pm

Since he left Liverpool?
Don’t think so.

Money well spent Newcastle

Clayton Bigsby · « **Reply #764 on:** August 18, 2019, 10:11:34 am »

Gérard Houllier told RMC of an anecdote from his time as Liverpool manager, convincing central defender Jamie Carragher of lifestyle changes.

“One day I was speaking with Jamie Carragher and I said to him… do you like football? He said to me: of course. I said well you know that you will be finished at 25 or 26. He said: what? I said now you feel like you can go out, drink. But at 25 you will start to have physical problems, slight muscular things, etc. If you love football and you want to play until you are 35, I suggest this (a different lifestyle). Of course it is tempting because you have money and are well-known. I said to him: instead of going to a nightclub at 25 you could buy one at 35. That stayed with him.”

THat should be imprinted on every wayward footballer

Black Bull Nova · « **Reply #765 on:** August 19, 2019, 06:49:29 pm »

Strangely enough would have suited Everton perfectly, something about that club that suits a big guy, even these days. Would have been a hero at Goodison, especially with Ferguson as a mentor.

Always wanted him to do well and came close to saving Kenny's job with that last half hour at Wembley. But for Cech may have been a legend.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1085285577027665921

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULlhhfWJ3M8

City double also

https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolFC/videos/581302792350775/

JoeCole · « **Reply #766 on:** August 19, 2019, 07:02:15 pm »

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And Carroll, who returned to boyhood club Newcastle this summer, has reiterated how he had to Google some of his new team-mates on the way down to signing on the dotted line at Anfield.

“When I was last here (in Newcastle), I’d go home, mess about with my mates, play football, go out, whatever, but I’d never watch football, I never knew any players," he said, speaking to the official Newcastle United website.

“When I was in the helicopter down to Liverpool, I was like, ‘I know Stevie G, I know Carragher... who else?’. My agent at the time had to tell me, and I would get it on Google and find out the team.

“It’s bad because it’s Liverpool players, but it’s not disrespectful – I just literally didn’t watch football, so I didn’t know."

Carroll arrived at Liverpool on the same deadline day as Luis Suarez joined and Fernando Torres left for Chelsea in a £50m move.

And he recalled: "It was mad. I was in the gym on the bike doing some work and it came up on Sky Sports News – £20m rejected, £25m rejected, £30m rejected.

"Everyone’s coming in saying, ‘what’s happening?’, and I was like, basically, ‘I’m not going anywhere, I’ve got a new contract here’.

"And then suddenly it was, ‘go and see the gaffer’. Next thing I knew I was in a helicopter to Liverpool.

“I was happy, just about to sign a new deal, and then gone. I’d just bought a house, I’d just got a cat. It was in the house, and I never went back to the house – I left in the helicopter and my brother had to have the cat!”

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/andy-carroll-makes-fresh-admission-16781343

CraigDS · « **Reply #767 on:** August 20, 2019, 07:35:12 pm »

Don't blame him, I'd have had to search who the likes of Poulsen and Konchesky were.

newterp · « **Reply #768 on:** August 20, 2019, 09:29:46 pm »

Is he sober yet?

I've been a good boy · « **Reply #769 on:** August 21, 2019, 02:39:00 pm »

Forget about being sober, I just don't think he's playing with a full deck.

pathetic · « **Reply #770 on:** August 21, 2019, 02:50:53 pm »

I actually quite liked Carroll. I remember seeing him for Newcastle in those six months in the premiership and he was amazing. So dominant in the air and strong. He wasn't that bad for us too. Pity he got hampered by injuries.

Alan B'Stard · « **Reply #771 on:** August 21, 2019, 03:47:23 pm »

Quote from: pathetic on August 21, 2019, 02:50:53 pm

I actually quite liked Carroll. I remember seeing him for Newcastle in those six months in the premiership and he was amazing. So dominant in the air and strong. He wasn't that bad for us too. Pity he got hampered by injuries.

Apart from the return of Kenny, the signing of Suarez and the league cup win. Those were dark times for Liverpool with regards to the squad.

afc tukrish · « **Reply #772 on:** August 21, 2019, 04:41:54 pm »

Quote from: Craig 🤔 on August 20, 2019, 07:35:12 pm

Don't blame him, I'd have had to search who the likes of Poulsen and Konchesky were.

Or just could have asked his Mum...

Black Bull Nova · « **Reply #773 on:** August 21, 2019, 11:38:17 pm »

Quote from: Alan B'Stard on August 21, 2019, 03:47:23 pm

Apart from the return of Kenny, the signing of Suarez and the league cup win. Those were dark times for Liverpool with regards to the squad.

To be fair, Reina, Johnson, Skrtel, Agger, Gerrard, Carragher, Henderson, Suarez, Kuyt, Maxi not too shabby plus a few lessers added, which was the problem really

might not be up to current requirements but I'd take it over the Souness or Hodgson squads, the really dark days.

In theory Charlie Adam corners and Stuart Downing delivering balls into Carroll with Suarez sniffing about seems like a potential recipe. Downing forgot how to cross and Charlie had peaked before he came here. Not really a Liverpool style either, more of an Everton.

Simplexity · « **Reply #774 on:** August 22, 2019, 10:38:03 pm »

Quote from: pathetic on August 21, 2019, 02:50:53 pm

I actually quite liked Carroll. I remember seeing him for Newcastle in those six months in the premiership and he was amazing. So dominant in the air and strong. He wasn't that bad for us too. Pity he got hampered by injuries.

Carroll had about 5 decent games for us, he was absolutely horrendous outside of that, not that one can blame him that much, he was in an out of the team perpetually his one full season with us which made it impossible for him to get any sort of rythm going.

Fortneef · « **Reply #775 on:** November 11, 2019, 04:16:08 pm »

Carroll was a ludicrous signing, because even if he'd cleaned up and kept fit, a Big Lad like that is only suitable to be a Plan B for a top-4 club.

PS if you disagree, you have to take Benteke back.

Adeemo · « **Reply #776 on:** November 11, 2019, 04:19:54 pm »

Quote from: Fortneef on November 11, 2019, 04:16:08 pm

Carroll was a ludicrous signing, because even if he'd cleaned up and kept fit, a Big Lad like that is only suitable to be a Plan B for a top-4 club.

PS if you disagree, you have to take Benteke back.

Drogba? Because that's the sort of player I guess they envisioned Carroll developing into.

Jon2lfc · « **Reply #777 on:** November 11, 2019, 07:39:19 pm »

Quote from: Fortneef on November 11, 2019, 04:16:08 pm

Carroll was a ludicrous signing, because even if he'd cleaned up and kept fit, a Big Lad like that is only suitable to be a Plan B for a top-4 club.

PS if you disagree, you have to take Benteke back.

In hindsight it was a bit of an odd signing for a club like ours..

But when you view the signing in the context of the spin below, it seemed like a master-stroke at the time:

Carroll was bought because he was a dominant striker in form, banging in headers for fun.
We also bought his supply line in Downing and Henderson who would ensure he continued to bang those headers in for fun.
Aaand to top it all off, we also bought a cheeky, little striker called Luis Suarez who would profit from the big man's knock downs and flick-ons.
Oh yeah, and we also had deadball specialist Charlie Adam to further increase the opportunities for Carroll to be supplied with decent balls to bang in for fun.
What's there not to like?
Sounded like a plan.

Ravishing Rick Dude · « **Reply #778 on:** December 7, 2019, 11:58:50 am »

"Steve Bruce says Andy Carroll would have made a 'world-class centre-half'"

to be honest he's not wrong. Maybe not world-class but probably would have had a better career than a striker.

newterp · « **Reply #779 on:** December 8, 2019, 01:23:44 am »

Quote from: Ravishing Rick Rude on December 7, 2019, 11:58:50 am

"Steve Bruce says Andy Carroll would have made a 'world-class centre-half'"

to be honest he's not wrong. Maybe not world-class but probably would have had a better career than a striker.

Not if you played a high line.

Jon2lfc · « **Reply #780 on:** December 9, 2019, 11:52:24 pm »

Quote from: newterp on December 8, 2019, 01:23:44 am

Not if you played a high line.

cos he was slow to turn n run?

newterp · « **Reply #781 on:** December 10, 2019, 02:43:58 am »

Or just slow in general

paulrazor · « **Reply #782 on:** December 10, 2019, 09:50:06 am »

belter of a cross for Shelveys goal (think it was Shelvey)

Charlie Adams fried egg · « **Reply #783 on:** December 16, 2019, 12:03:57 pm »

Wonder if his injuries will clear up now that he's back with a club he actually wants to play for?

Red-Soldier · « **Reply #784 on:** December 16, 2019, 05:43:53 pm »

He's got a decent left foot for a big lump.

Strange player was/is Carroll. The injuries and mentality have definitely held him back to.