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Andy Carroll sold to Liverpool for a record £35m

Published by Row 'S' Army on February 1st, 2011 - in Season 2010/2011

So Andy Carroll is sold to Liverpool for a record £35m on the last day of the January transfer window.

Gutted. Simple as that.

Mike Ashley has no fucking clue what he is doing with OUR football club. We should be building a team around Andy Carroll for the next 10 years. Yes £35m is amazing money, but do we need the money that much? Ashley won’t reinvest a third of that so it makes no business sense what so ever.

A player of Carroll’s talent, potential and goalscoring ability don’t grow on trees for a club like Newcastle United. Throw in the fact he is a local lad and it is heart breaking stuff.

Toon Talk fanzine editor Steve Wraith has claimed he exchanged a series of txt messages with Andy Carroll yesterday, with Carroll saying “They have kind of said we don’t want u but want me to say I wanna go. And I said I don’t want to go.” and when asked “any message you want put across to the fans?” Carroll replied “They said they wanted the money. Gutted to be leaving Newcastle but I was kind of pushed out the door. Gutted to be leaving my home club but I was practically told to go. Didn’t want to leave that’s why i signed a five-year deal.”.

Of course Mike Ashley has a track record of selling key players without replacements lined up so we shouldn’t be surprised by this move. For example, James Milner was sold for £12m at the deadline in August 2008, while Charles N’Zogbia and Shay Given were sold for £5m and £6m respectively at the deadline of January 2009.

Where does Alan Pardew go from here should be interesting. After insisting Andy Carroll “is not for sale” all month does this make his position untenable? Or does it prove he is just an Ashley puppet? I think we know the answer.

All in all this is another sad chapter under the Mike Ashley era, and while Ashley stays at the club you can’t see how we can ever move forward. Sad times.

Andrew McTernan – Row ‘S’ Army

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Congratulations to Andy Carroll England International

Published by Row 'S' Army on November 18th, 2010 - in Season 2010/2011

Congratulations to Andy Carroll for making his England debut at Wembley in England’s 1-2 defeat to France on Wednesday night (GMT).

Carroll was one of the few England players to enhance their reputations in what was an awful performance by England who were outplayed by their French opponents. Playing mainly as a lone striker Carroll received little service, but he battled away admirable and looked more than comfortable at international level. On 72 minutes Carroll left the field, apparently uninjured, and was replaced by Cardiff City striker Jay Bothroyd.

Speaking after the game Fabio Capello heaped praise on Carroll:

“It is important for me that some young players play here at Wembley against a good team like France. In this friendly fixture it was important to know the value of the young players. I told the players it is different to play with the Under-21s than to play here. In the first half France played better, in the second half we played better. I am happy for Carroll for his performance and I understand he is a good player for the future for England”

The 21-year-old Geordie striker spoke to Evening Chronicle afterwards:

“I was happy with my performance on the night and it obviously leaves you wanting to experience a bit more. For me, it was a great experience to be out there and playing with top international players. I’ve really enjoyed it. The atmosphere in front of 86,000 people was a real buzz and it’s something I’ll never forget. Now I’m just looking forward to Bolton Wanderers on Saturday.”


In a spooky coincidence Carroll made his debut at the same age, against the same team, and at the same venue as Alan Shearer did in 1992. England needs a good Geordie in it’s team, see Bobby Charlton, Peter Beardsley, Chris Waddle, Gazza and Shearer, so well done Andy we are all proud of you.

Andrew McTernan – Row ‘S’ Army

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Calderwood gone and Carroll going down?

Published by Row 'S' Army on October 20th, 2010 - in Season 2010/2011

Firstly apologies for not doing a match report on the 2-2 draw at home to Wigan game last Saturday. A combination of being in Mornington all weekend, a hectic work week and the depression of actually watching the re-run has halted my efforts to bring it to you. You can read my comments and thought in the Match Thread on our forum if your bothered.

It has been another interesting week in the life of Newcastle United FC with again all the headlines being off the field sadly.

Firstly on Sunday the news broke that striker Andy Carroll had been released on bail following a charge of assault. Carroll is alleged to have attacked his former girlfriend Laurie Henderson in her Ponteland home in the early hours of Sunday morning. Carroll denies the charge and oddly has a bail condition where he must live with Kevin Nolan, what relevance Nolan has to all this is unknown.

As ever the UK tabloids have had a field day with this piece of juice news. The Sun yesterday ran a story with the headline Toon star ‘beat me after sex with pal’ as rumours circulate about what, if anything, actually happened.

This fresh allegation of assault is hardly what Carroll needs as he has another court appearance due on Monday (25th) where he will face a different charge of assault after an alleged brawl in a nightclub last year. This can’t help that court appearance in the slightest and you have to think that he is in serious danger of going to jail. Innocent until proven guilty naturally and Carroll does deny both charges, but one thing is for certain he really needs to keep his head down and have a serious think about the people he is associated himself with. It is typical that all this has comes out just a week after the club agreed to give Carroll a 5-year contract, he won’t be much use to us if he is spending time in Durham prison!

 

In other news this week assistant manager Colin Calderwood has left the club to become new manager of Hibernian. This one has surprised most people as we didn’t see this coming, Chris Hughton and Calderwood have worked well together over the last year or so, but I guess the lure of a management position, especially back in his native Scotland, was probably too much to refuse for Calderwood. Anyway good luck to the bloke I hope he does well.

There has been no mention of any replacements so far by Hughton or the club so it will be interesting to see if they promote from within, hire a new guy, or alternatively not replace Calderwood at all. Speculation is rife about possible replacements or re-shuffle in the club management but the Daily Mirror take the award for the biggest pile of bollocks, they claim Joe Kinnear is set for a sensational return to the club as manger alongside Peter Beardsley with Kevin Nolan player-coach.

Just your average week at Newcastle United FC then!

Andrew McTernan – Row ‘S’ Army

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