I actually find myself agreeing with carrabuh here, so on such a memorable occasion, I thought it deserved a verse or two, I wouldn´t touch him with a barge-pole An extraordinarily tall waste of space, And physically built like a privvy With a temperament of a nut case, In last night´s game up against Vidic He elbowed him straight in the head, And having already a yellow It ought to have given him red, So thanks but no thanks to A. Carroll Especially with his wages too, The ´wolf´ way is so, so much better Not someone we would come to rue.
If it's true West Ham are struggling to finance a move due to Carroll's wage demands, then the player is going to single handedly ruin his own career. Liverpool don't want him, West Ham and Stoke are about the only clubs that suit him, and he's trying to price both of them out. Madness. He won't be coming here though, because of expense, and hopefully because we've got something better lined up (if indeed we are even after another striker). Benteke would also be too expensive, I could see him at West Brom or Everton though.
I like Weimann from Villa, I know it was only a cup game I saw him in but we do not have anyone with his attacking movement and striking ability at Norwich.
Im shocked to be honest. As a club that have called Grant Holt a legend I thought you guys would embrace the idea of a better version of him (ok not on those wages but still). And regardless of what you think, Carroll with good service would score plenty. He can hold the ball up better than Holt, he wins more balls in the air than Holt does, he is stronger than Holt and he would batter defences left right and centre allowing RVW to exploit gaps and tired defences. I think he would be perfect foil infact. Alas, I am out numbered. Its just a thought and in any case with the wages mentioned its a massive no go even if Hughts wanted him
The advantage Holt has is he is (believe it or not) that little bit quicker, is actually more mobile, works harder and is better at the little flick ons, etc. Holt is not an out-and-out target man/lone striker, whereas Carroll is the very definition of one.
You only sign Carrol if you play long ball, its the only thing he knows. He's a lumbering aerial threat which reduces a team to the lowest of the low. I want us to have nothing to do with him.
Carroll is currently at his true spiritual home. I can't visualise him anywhere other than Wet Sham or maybe Stoke. He's only effective if the whole team is built around him, pumping high hopeful balls for him to muscle onto. Surely that's the last thing we want to see at Carrow Road
Carroll is not a patch on Holt. One thing Holt never get's enough credit for is he has quite a good footballing brain on him, his very cunning too and I don't really think his a too bad finisher although this season he hasn't reached his usual form. Andy Carroll is one of the worst players in the past decade I've seen get an England cap and there is a lot of players in that bracket. I don't understand the hype about having some big guy to bully people up front, yes Holt is great but you only need it when you don't have the pace up front, it also works well against confident and cultured defenders as it gives them less time on the floor, but you don't need to be 15 stone and 6'4 to bully defenders though or some lanky streak of piss in Carroll's case.
I actually agree with you; West ham and Newcastle do /did not only play a long ball game, so the comments along the line of only a battering ram are a little misplaced, exactly the same unjustified criticisms that Holt has suffered over the past few seasons. Carroll has scored some great goals that involved a level of skill way beyond the level of ability afforded to him on this thread
Adrian Durham said on talkSHITE last night that Norwich would be the ideal club for Carroll to progress his career, he did, honestly
