http://www.caughtoffside.com/2012/0...tch-but-club-must-offload-andy-carroll-first/ If it happens it will effectively be a straight swap, Huntelaar in for £18m, Carroll to Newcastle for £17m. I know he's 29 but top scorer in the Bundesliga last season shows he still has it. Quite frankly I'd love him to come. Thougts? Twitter is buzzing about it, and as you know, once it's on Twitter, it's a dead cert.... .... ... .. .
Hmm I'm not so sure. I think a lot of people on here were concerned with spending £10m on another 29 year old who plays for Fulham ... I think he's a good striker but the fee is far too high. I would prefer we use £10-15m and buy Sturridge as he appears to be more suited to our style of play.
I like K.Hunt. He's older than Carroll obviously more of a "now" signing. He's got several good years still but won't give us much sellon value. Hopefully we can get him for a little less due to age. I'm also not sure I want Carroll to go. But if he must...
I think in the right role, Sturridge could be prolific. He is very confident, has an eye for goals and the boy can definately finish (almost Torres like). I think Sturridge would represent more value for money - young player, fast, skills and tricks who has the attributes to fit into our style. Rodgers doesn't want a one prolific goal scorer to get 20+ goals. He wants the team to get 60+ goals.
Anything over £10m is too much for me, would probably rather spend an extra 6-7m and get Sturridge (if that's possible).
I can't see it happening, yes Huntelaar will be a great addition, but it would mean a 1 in and 1 out. Is that really worth it long term?
We need someone who is an experienced goal scorer at the highest level, someone that doesn't need to learn as much and can hit the ground running. Whilst our younger strikers take a little more time to settle and gain some confidence. United have RVP and Rooney, Chelsea have Torres (yes, an experienced goal scorer) and City have Aguero and Tevez. We have Borini and Carroll who are yet to find their feet in front of goal to become natural goal scorers.
Borini, for me, at least looks comfortable with the ball and seems to fit in well with the rest of the team. Carroll always looked like a bus being forced into a key hole, occasionally a part of him would click into place only for the rest of him to fall over. Kenny might have made more of him with time, but he's certainly not a BR-type player. I'd be surprised if we went for Huntelaar, too old and too expensive for a short term role.
Although our overall business strategy must be to bring in younger players, a stop-gap solution for our goalscoring problem is not that bad an idea. Any player who can get us 25 per season for three or four years and help us get to a CL placing has surely earned his fee regardless of sell-on value? The question is, could he do it?
Id love to have Huntelaar at the right price as he is class, 18 mil is expensive. Who in their right mind would pay that kind of money for a 29 year old Dutchman with one year left on their contract........ It is hard to say as if he did score 20 a season for 3 seasons then he'd be worth it. Don't like the idea of one out one in, we were short last season and we've lost Bellamy and Kuyt who provided cover and only got Borini in.
I would just ****ing love it if we got a top striker in. Someone who can score and create is just what we need.
And Assaidi, I can see Dempsey coming in rather than Sturridge. And obviously Huntelaar will only come if Carroll goes, which I'd be up for tbh.
If we can manage to dump Cole, Adam and Spearing, maybe just maybe we will have the cash to land Dempsey. Strong reports suggest Aston Villa are keen on Adam for £5 million, Fat Sam wants Joe Cole, maybe we could stiff him for £4 million as revenge for 2009, and Bolton want little Jay and a fee is close to being agrered. That approximately works out at £12 million, if my sources are correct. That would be enough to nail Dempsey.
