Adver News: 'Is Carroll 20 times better than Austin?'

[News Monkey]

'Is Carroll 20 times better than Austin?'
           


  CHAIRMAN Andrew Fitton believes the final days of the January transfer window creates a freak marketplace in English football, but admits that ended up working in Town’s favour.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/8828899._Is_Carroll_20_times_better_than_Austin__/?ref=rss
           

[suttonred]

Doing the rough maths , that's 1.75 Million for Austin then.

[Arriba]

the fee paid for carroll was utter lunacy.
he is a risk signing for sure,and at that price an expensive one

[mrverve]

Carroll isn't even worth half of the £35m Liverpool spent on him.

David Villa cost £33m in June.

[Nemo]

I saw this on another site, very clever:

I scored 24 goals helping my side win promotion back to the Premier League aged just 22.

In my first season in the top flight I had 15 goals by the end of Jan. Including a goal against the reigning champions, away at Arsenal and in a home win vs Liverpool. My form earned me an England call-up and debut in a friendly....

Am a I £35m striker?

No. I am Michael Ricketts, February 2002. Note to Liverpool fan's don't be too shocked if Carroll goes the same way!

[tans]

I saw this on another site, very clever:

I saw it on sickipedia

[Don Rogers Shop]

the fee paid for carroll was utter lunacy.
he is a risk signing for sure,and at that price an expensive one

Thing is liverpool won't look at it like that. They have got 50m for Torres and paid 55m for suarez and carroll. They have just done some great business in my opinion

[london_red]

Thing is liverpool won't look at it like that. They have got 50m for Torres and paid 55m for suarez and carroll. They have just done some great business in my opinion

Agreed. They've overpaid for Carroll but they could afford to because of the silly money they got for Torres. They've improved their attacking options overall IMO for a net outlay of 5m.

[suttonred]

By the by, still utter madness from all concerned.

[tans]

Sky Sports News.

Andy Carroll after record £35 million signing for a British Football player: "I want to be treated like everyone else at Liverpool"

Well, as a coked up girlfriend beater out on bail I don't think you'll struggle.

[suttonred]

And he'll be able to make use of his burned out car now. That'll fit right in round there.

[pauld]

Agreed. They've overpaid for Carroll but they could afford to because of the silly money they got for Torres. They've improved their attacking options overall IMO for a net outlay of 5m.

Quite. It's ridiculous money, but it's Chelsea's money, not Liverpool's. Chelsea have overpaid for Carroll, Liverpool have replaced one effectively non-playing striker with a proven quality player and a decent prospect (who may or may not work out)

[london_red]

On the subject, its a bit nerdy and I'm not sure I agree with how he's done all his projections but found this very interesting on relative value of these transfers.

http://betoftheweek.net/2011/02/85-million-questions/

[jonny72]

Quite. It's ridiculous money, but it's Chelsea's money, not Liverpool's. Chelsea have overpaid for Carroll, Liverpool have replaced one effectively non-playing striker with a proven quality player and a decent prospect (who may or may not work out)

They said something similar on MotD last night. Torres has been playing crap for a while now, replacing him with Carroll and Suarez at a net cost of £5m is good business for Liverpool. Chelsea paying £50m for Torres is totally crazy though.

[pauld]

They said something similar on MotD last night.

In which case, I withdraw my comment unreservedly