Re: Liverpool Thread
PLF said:
Again, my only reason for comparison with Drogba and van Nistelrooy to just name two was to emphasize how IMPORTANT it is to get the RIGHT moves/transfers at the RIGHT Age. Too early or too late and it can KILL your career! Wrong club and it can kill you!
indeed. i agree with Sina on this one. sure, chances are carroll won't ever be the next drogba or the next ruud or the next toni.... but he will most likely improve his game and develop into a good player (perhaps a very good player, who knows).
and even if he wouldn't, what do u guys have to lose at this point? loaning him would be just plain silly (as many of u seem to realize)... selling him is virtually impossible right now (which club would buy him and at what price?).
signing carroll for that ridiculous pricetag was a monumental mistake... that transfer will probably go down in history as one of the biggest fails on the market.
but selling carroll right now would be an even bigger mistake (and would also make liverpool owners look like complete idiots). u don't sell your assets when they're worth absolutely nothing. u wait until their value goes up a bit (and by "a bit" i mean "as much as possible").
no one would ever do something that stupid. and if liverpool owners would even consider such a possibility right now, that would make them the biggest clowns in european football. they're newbies, okay, and it seems they still have a lot to learn about how to run a football club..... but they're certainly not that stupid or naive... to put carroll on the market right now.... i just refuse to believe they would really consider such a move.
carroll has the potential to become a good player. it might never become a world class player, but he certainly will do better than he did last season (and his pricetag will grow accordingly).
besides, like i already said, what have u got to lose at this point? u already lost everything u could possibly lose on this guy last summer (when u signed him). it's not like he's on such a heavy contract, so why not give him a chance to grow and prove himself... right now u ain't gonna get any serious money for him anyway, so u might aswell keep him.
u liverpool fans are a very passionate bunch (wich is nice), but u're way too intense in the way u feel about your club, and u let that passion cloud your judgement far too easily.
i know, this could be said about millions of fans over the world, but u guys really bring this thing to a whole new level!!! just look at the way u guys seem to rate your players: u either massively overrate them (turning an average player into a great player and a good player into a world class God), or u hugely underrate them (carroll and downing being the first examples that pop into my mind right now).
take the drama down a notch will ya?!!
i'll tell u what, i actually believe carroll will do better than borini this season. i'm not gone mad, i realise borini is a better player than carroll... and i also realise fabio probably won't have any adaptation problem (as he's already been in EPL), but i just don't see how he could fit into liverpool's football.
fabio is a particular kind of player... he relies a lot on his teammates passing game. he's much more dependant on his teammates than, say carroll and suarez. borini doesn't have suarez's ability to go past his marker with dribbling, and he also doesn't have carroll's build and body balance. in order to deliver borini needs some accurate vertical passers at midfield with above average vision; liverpool has only one player with theese abilities (aquilani), and he's one of the most fragile (therfore unreliable) players in europe.
so if u ask me who's gonna score more goals this season, between carroll and borini, my money is on andy.
Cheers. We'll take him back now, thank-you very much.
