if there's someone out there willing to pay 18\20 million pounds for him, than sure, go for it. if the coach doesn't want him, let hiim go, as u're probably never gonna get more than this. but do u sincerely believe there's a nutcase willing to pay that sum for carroll right now??? i find it extremely unlikely.
however guys, by reading your posts, i realise u lot are completely unfamiliar with the very concept of "loss"
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capitalloss.asp#axzz20sOGAC9Y
....the key part being "
This loss is not realized until the asset is sold"
i see u guys making comments like "
we gotta cut our losses" or "
One basic in business, is that you cant let bad decisions from the past influence in decisions for the future." this is absolutely not correct, people. infact it's the exact opposite. u define your losses (or profits) by considering how much u did invest (wich is obviously what u'd call "a decision from the past").
the truth is, right now u haven't lost anything yet on the "carroll investment", because u haven't sold him yet. only once u will have sold him, u will have realised a loss (or a profit).
simple example: a company buys a building for 100. the following year the market goes down and the value of that building decreases to 50. is that a loss? NO, because u haven't sold the building yet. if u sell the building when the market is down then yes, u have generated a loss. but if u don't sell it and wait, then u haven't lost a single cent. perhaps in 3 years the market could go up again and u might be able to sell that building for the same price you bought it for, or even for a higher price (in wich case u'd make a profit).
the same applies to football players: palermo bought ilicic 2 years ago for 2 millions. by the end of his first season in palermo he was worth 15 millions (as a matter of fact we rejected a 15 millions offer). but we didn't sell him then. his second season was a disaster and now his value on the market is about 5 millions. are we going to sell him this summer? hell no! we're gonna wait for his performances to get better (and for his pricetag to grow accordingly) so we can make a better profit. our new coach made it pretty clear ilicic isn't in his plans, but the club told him "
well change your plans then, coz we can't lose a shitload of money only because u don't believe in him".
as u can easily realise, all those pricetag fluctuations are absolutely irrelevant. the only value that will actually matter will be the value we eventually decide to sell him for. it's pretty obvious, isn't it?
so far ilicic isn't a loss nor a profit for us. and the same goes for carroll; carroll will only become a loss (or a profit) once u decide to sell him. so saying "we gotta cut our losses" makes no sense, because there's no loss yet.
and to say that the club has got to ignore how much they paid for carroll is nonsense too. because only by considering how much u paid for an investment u can value that investment as a profit or a loss. the fans should ignore his pricetag...... carroll himself should try and ignore his pricetag..... but the club can't afford to ignore that.
the only tool to evaluate an investment as a loss or a profit is "capital gain\loss" and u can't even assess that value if u ignore how much u spent on the investment in the first place.
carroll just had a pretty lousy season, wich obviously effected his value. if u sell him now then yes, u will realise a monumental loss. if u keep him his value can only increase (because seriously how many of u really believe he will score less than 6 goals next season!?!). even if he had another poor season, it will inevitably be at least a bit better than the last one (6 goals in 42 appearances... he just can't do any worse than that).
and even if he wouldn't improve and his pricetag wouldn't increase, keeping him one year more would allow u to distribute the capital loss over 2 financial years (wich would make the capital loss a lot less dramatic for your balance sheet).
if u would sell carroll right now for, say, 18 millions pounds, that would mean a capital loss of 17 millions over a singe financial year. in any industry, such a monumental failure would force the ceo to resign. such an operation would make liverpool the laughing stock of european football. plain and simple.
