.West Ham's Sam Allardyce says Andy Carroll's future will be decided in summer. Source:http://www1.skysports.com/football/...dy-Carroll-s-future-will-be-decided-in-summer Sam Allardyce says West Ham can't afford Andy Carroll. Source:http://www1.skysports.com/football/...rdyce-says-West-Ham-can-t-afford-Andy-Carroll
Reminds me of the Aqualani Saga all over again. If WHU can afford his wages for a season and they made an agreement in principle to sign if they stayed up, it goes to show clubs are still trying to dictate terms on transfer dealings with our club. Bring him back and make him useful tbh.
When west ham published thier losses it was quite clear they didn't have the moeny to buy him at all so i'm quite surprised anyone is shocked at this. West ham will always try it on cos they've spiv owners who really should never have passed fitness to won rules and a spiv manager too... they'll TRY to get him cheap but Carroll has no interest in them. he wants to play in the championship with newkie.
Just bring the ****er back and get the best out of him - I don't care about this whole wage thing everyone bangs on about as well - our current owners agreed to his move so why do we as fans suddenly give a **** what he earns per week?
Personally I can see him going back to Newcastle for £10m. I would like to see him stay as an impact player. God knows we could have done with him in last couple of games
All I can say is look at this http://www.whufc.com/staticFiles/62/99/0,,12562~170338,00.pdf westham stuck it out in january there is NO WAY west ham ought to be paying any player 80k a week nor 17mil in a transfer. This is how newcastle got relegated you know, michael owen and silly spending by shepard. West ham have a golden chance coming for gold and Sullivan to sell up and move on. In 2016 there's a big stadium coming and all the rich play boy idiots will be looking at this london club for their play thing.... no way are they going to put that in jeopardy by splashing on one guy who was injured half this year again. 10mil? who knows but we aint going to go do that either.
Mandy's gone, he (and we) just don't know it yet. Rodgers has no intention of playing Mandy, none whatsoever, and he's publicly said there is no plan B. As far as he's concerned, there is just plan A, plan A and more plan A, and he has decided to sell Mandy. All this posturing over £17mil is just that. If we're offered £12mil and the chance to get his wages off the books, Radgers will whack the big man over the head, tuck him in the boot of his car, and deliver him himself...
I copied the link out of my browser, its a pdf and the link just worked for me. its a long document with lots of minuses... just like lfc balance sheet!
Still think Carroll can be useful at Liverpool. He doesn't need to be referred as 'plan b' but a different way to approach the game. Against Reading on Saturday, they knew with the front three of Countinho-Suarez-Sturridge they were getting short passing, advanced dribbling and always looking for a killer ball. If we went with a front three of Coutinho-Carroll-Suarez that brings why I've already said plus, height, strength, good in the air nod danger from set pieces. With Readings defence already looking shaky thu season, having three different approaches would of killed them. But en, Carroll would be useless against your West Hams, Norwich and Stokes as there defences play to his style, leaving him frustrated. I wanna keep him.
I am of the opinion that these new rules are anti competition. I will mention United but will mention other clubs, this is not about United, it is about the top earning clubs in the PL Liverpool too, United Chelsea Arsenal City Spurs. All have good sponsorship deals and can add other deals as United have done recently with the AON and DHL deals. The new rules prevent others from investing in the PL to the degree of Roman and the Sheik, is it just a coincidence that as well as European football the PL has had challenges to it's status quo, United have dominated transfers and wages for a very long time in the PL until Chelsea and City muscled in, same as Europe, PSG and the Russian sides have muscled in with record fees and wages which before were the domain of the few like Real Madrid Juventus AC Milan and others. The only clubs ot pay penalties have been lower teams with none of the big boys, like the top Spanish English and Italian sides who have well spend outside of their means paying any price for their overspending. Every team that cannot get a new "Deal" to rename a training ground, imo as dodgy a deal as can be, renaming stadiums and adding logos to training grounds and kits, all extremely exploitative of the new rules and only an exploit the top sides can pull off to any effect. So now we will have the best most expensive players all going to the few sides and everyone else making do. Even with investment, the cornerstone of building up a business clubs can no longer plan long term recoups and will now be limited in transfer fees and wages. The gap will just widen and the rich clubs will get even richer while the poor clubs get poorer. Yet another pyramid scheme where all the big money gets funneled upwards with john everyman clubs losing their best players and in this new environment they will take what they can get rather than holding out for big money as it will not come, good young players, if missed by scouts of big clubs will go for less and less as these clubs struggle for cash, I see these new rules in their current context as anything but fair. A fair system would be the draft system but this would never be singed off by greedy corporate football types running our leagues and European football.
It doesn't make it impossible but it is much harder for an unestablished club to make a challenge on the top four or the title. The clubs nearer the top get more money for finishing higher, they get more following (fickle fans seeking glory) and better sponsorship as a result. I agreed that something needed to be done to prevent clubs overspending but this certainly favours the rich IMO. It is a 'the rich get richer' system. You could also argue that this favours us since Liverpool Football Club is a very well known the world over and remains the most successful English club to date (for now). We should be able to attract top sponsorship and have a massive following too. We just need a bigger and better stadium and team
The general concept of FFP is correct and it should help level the playing field. Unfortunately, some of the rules implemented aren't the greatest e.g. you can only increase your wage budget by a certain percentage every year. Therefore, the highest spending teams will continue to have high wages whilst the smaller teams will continue to spend small amounts which then makes it more difficult to attract players. A simple salary cap (a straight figure, not a percentage) which is consistent with all clubs should be implemented.
