you may disagree

but i hope carroll does well
although he did leave in bad circumstances i still like the lad! i more blame liverpool than ashley or carroll for the transfer anyway. yes he left but weve now got 35m to 'hopefully' spend in the summer! i just like to see a northern lad to do well, at least hell get a sniff for england playing for them :L

 

I hope the twat fails miserably, clearly went for the money, could have stayed, had a contract, not a true geordie in my eyes.

Also we will get 10 mil of the transfer money max IMO.

 

ino but in the modern game im starting to think theres very few *apart from tiote and barton* who would stay for fans and footballing reasons, but i just like the lad dont know why probably because he did do well for us :L but i just think id be a shame to waste soem good talent,

 

That's like your girlfriend dumping you to get with your best mate and then you saying "I hope they do well together".

 

Couldnt have put it better myself haha

 

I dont really care much for England any more so even there I have no interest in him and hope he fails miserably. No chance of being a worse transfer than Torres though.

 

I hope he fails spectacularly, wastes his talent and then spends the rest of his life wishing he hadn't stabbed us in the back. ****er.

 

I don't hope he fails but I hope he regrets moving away. Must win a trophy before he does!!!

 

Was nice to see Kaka give him a whack on the nose... if only it had broken his face

 

You're confusing personal relationships and emotion with cold hearted business. And like it or not, football is now a business where more often than not, the club that flashes the most cash gets the best players, then wins the most trophies.

I don't doubt for a minute that NUFC is loved by Carroll. But he's still a kid and as such will have been easily influenced by huge pressure from his agent and other "advisors" looking to get a nice percentage of the huge transfer fee.

And lets not forget his departure left us with £35m in the coffers. I don't think anyone on this board really believes Carroll is worth anything like £35m, so what on earth is the problem? We're quids in!

As far as i'm concerned, we should all be raising our glasses to the young lanky bugger and wishing him all the best in a place where he won't feel at home for some time, if at all. After all, we got the best of the deal. By far.

 

I hope he does well and gets sold at the end of next season for £50+ million, then we get £12.5 mil. Hope he 'breaks a leg' after that...

 

To us, the fans, football is a personal thing with emotions involved. I'm not going to sit here and say that I don't mind because it's a 'cold hearted business'. It doesn't feel like that to the fans, and it never, ever will.

 

Was nice to get £30mil up front and a 25% sell on clause like

Can see him struggling with the nightlife, if not on the pitch. Here he was at a one club town and loved by anyone he ran into, imagine if a bunch of Everton fans run into him in the state he gets into on a saturday night.

 

Good point - of course it doesn't feel like that to the fans - thats why we go back year after year no matter how much we get crapped on. From an fans/emotional point of view, if Carroll had gone for (say) £10m, I would be as angry as you, but as it stands I still say its a good deal that should eventually leave us in a stronger position with a bigger/stronger squad. But at the end of the day, you don't like it, I don't like it, but it *is* business.

 

I'm not angry at the sale. I'm angry at Carroll for deserting us at the thought of more cash. Everything he said about this being his dream club was quite clearly a load of crap. For passionate fans, that's hard to take. Formalities aside, we rightly feel cheated and, as you put it, crapped on. The £35mill is a superb piece of business, but it doesn't change how people feel about what he did.

 

I'm not so sure. When I saw the first footage of Carroll arriving at Liverpool I thought he looked like a frightened rabbit in the headlights. Yes he was squeezing out the odd smile, but it seemed to me like he was caught up in something way beyond his control.

It would be nice to know *exactly* what the events were behind the scenes up to the transfer. Like I said, he's just a kid, and by all accounts, not the brightest spoon in the cutlery drawer - so would that make him easy to manipulate and pressure by advisors who were just thinking about the money? Maybe. Maybe not. But if that is what happened then that doesn't make him a bad person.

All IMO anyway

 

This!

 

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