Makes it easier that we didn't go in ofr him after all

Andy Carroll suffers fresh foot injury in West Ham training
West Ham striker Andy Carroll has suffered a fresh foot injury on his return to training.

The 24-year-old, a club-record £15m signing from Liverpool this summer, has not played since picking up a heel injury in the final game of last season.

And the England man has now sustained a separate injury in training on Monday.

The club said: "Although it is in the same part of his foot as his previous injury, it is a new injury."

A West Ham statement added: "West Ham United can confirm Andy Carroll suffered an injury to his right foot during his return to full training.

"There will be no prognosis until he has seen a specialist."




Good player. Good lad. Body can't stand the strain.

 

Christ he's had like 2 runs of more than 6 games since he left us, that 35 mill is making more sense every injury that occurs

 

There was never a time when 35 mill didn't make sense. Well, to NUFC at least.

Now it's looking like the 15m Liverpool got back was good business.

 

Well, when you consider we're a team that evidently harbours few ambitions you can imagine fans not seeing the sense in getting rid of our geordie no.9 for money we never really saw. I'm sure I felt that way at the time.
Yeh i think it says it all that they were lucky to make a loss of 25 mill.
It begs the question, what was a fair evaluation of him at the point in time we sold him? Bout 12 mil?

 

Cold facts would suggest about that, yep. Subsequent value would still have diminished as he barely played afterwards, so a fair price this summer would have been around 7/8m. What I think we were prepared to offer. To be honest, if there were a central hub that set players based on a core set of values, then it would make the World a much fairer place. This central 'price list' could run in line with interest rates, global economies and so on. If you had that and a wage cap, football would be solved overnight. There'd be no need for Financial Fair Play rules, as the players would all be worth a certain price. It would be down to the player to decide - do I go to Man City, earn £50kpw and be fifth choice. Or do I go to Tottenham, earn £50k and be second choice but have no CL football?

Wow, can you imagine that?

That said, you'd still have Joe Kinnear offering 50% less for the same player and about £2k a week.

 

Poor old Andy, always gave 100%, pity he he seems to be very injury prone.

 

Ah, the joys of a centrally regulated market. Worked a treat in the USSR I believe.

 

Would be good. Keep everything relative to us all. Could maybe have stopped this gulf between player and fans getting larger and larger, nothing more alienating than watching players like Tevez pick up over 100 g a week after tax when we were all in the middle of a recession. Also imagine the good it would have done for the english game!? The careers of Parker, Sinclair, wright-phillips, adam johnson etc. could have been even better had they not had those few years warming benches.
Shame the players would never allow it.
Tbh i think kinnears that far behind the times Ashley's probably paying him in potatoes and he thinks he's got the sweetest deal in England

 

It's not the players that prevent a wage cap, it's the owners.

There are wage caps in a number of American sports. They work fine because there are only a couple of dozen teams in the world in the market. Get agreement amongst the couple of dozen owners that they won't pay more the $X and Bob's your uncle. What are the players going to do - - refuse to play and get a job stacking shelves ?

The trouble with football is that it's a worldwide sport. If the EPL brought in a wage cap, the top players would just leave for Spain, Russia, Dubai or where ever. Unless you could get the owners of those leagues on board, you'll always have someone breaking the strike (as it were).

 

This.

 

You say what would players do in the first paragrah, then answer your rhetorical question in the 2nd.
Considering the NBA took ages to start last year because players were striking until their money increased tells me players can do more than you give em credit for, they wouldn't just accept a cap considering ashley cole nearly crashed his car at the horrendous thought of earning 50k a week

 

Because better regulation of football and communism are almost the exact same topic....

 

By the standards of this forum, yeah

 

I naively thought that we might see him again in black and white. Feel a bit for him that his comeback has been shelved for the next few weeks.

 

Feel very sorry for him. Hope it's only a few weeks

 

Shame that its worked out this way for him.

It looks as though he's going to be injury prone throughout his career and maybe shows why footballers need to do whats best for themselves.

 

Selling him was the best bit of business we've ever done.

Some Hammers are claiming that he'll be out for the season, but most sources are just saying it's another few months.. but still!