Andy Carroll has moved to Liverpool for £35m, which means he is the eighth most expensive player in the world and the most expensive Brit. The £35m fee puts Carroll up there with the likes of David Villa and Wayne Rooney. The ex Newcastle striker stated when interviewed, “I didn‘t want to go, I was pushed out, they wanted the money.” The England international has signed a deal worth £80,000 per-week. West Ham must have been distraught when they saw the £35m fee; after all, they did say that Carroll’s asking price of £1m in the summer of 2009 was unrealistic.
Questions have been asked about whether Carroll is worth the £35m paid for him, which is the equivalent of £1.7m per Premier League start for the young Englishman.
When asked Pardew insisted, “You don’t force anyone to do anything and we didn’t twist his arm to put in a transfer request or to get on that helicopter. He had a five-year contract here, a contract we said we would renew yesterday in the summer; but we wanted to renew it straight away and when he made it clear that he wanted to renew it now or he would to speak to Liverpool and that’s when the power shifted. We didn’t want to lose Andy yesterday and if Andy really wanted to stay he could’ve stayed, but he is not here. We don’t want bad feeling for Andy, he’s moved on and he’s moved to a big club, Liverpool are a good club and good luck to him. Nothing was mentioned to his representatives it terms of forcing him out. He indicated to me in my office that he wanted a new deal and if wasn’t going to get a new deal he wanted the option to move to Liverpool and I said you need to put that in writing Andy if your going to do that, and he did. One thing I said to Mike (Ashley) is that if this boy is going to go we have to reinvested the money in the squad.” The new Liverpool number nine has not started is Liverpool career in the best of circumstances, but Kenny knows a good player when he see’s one, and Carroll is just that.
Written by Thomas Munson
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