Please explain

How on earth can a player like Andy Carroll who has a solitary England cap command a 35 million pound transfer fee? When you have the likes of Charlie Adam selling for around 8 million. This is complete lunacy on whoever is responsible's part.

Hes worth around £15-20m IMO.

£35m is taking the piss.

He's overrpriced, that's a given. But Adam isn't worth +8 million.

JMB_94 wrote:Hes worth around £15-20m IMO.

£35m is taking the piss.

Agreed yeah. This is outrageous tbh.

It's mad, although I think Adam is a pretty poor example. David Villa would be a better one.

Carroll is worth no more than £10 Million imo.

Ben wrote:It's mad, although I think Adam is a pretty poor example. David Villa would be a better one.

Yes and no Ben. Yeah it's mad what Newcastle are asking for and no it's not a poor example by any means. Adam is a mint player well worth 8 million quid.

forestfcfan wrote:Carroll is worth no more than £10 Million imo.

Hes a top striker and a consistant goal scorer as we've seen this season, worth more then £10m.

I can't wait for the financial fair play rules. It's just getting fucking ridiculous now.

jeb4eva wrote:

Ben wrote:It's mad, although I think Adam is a pretty poor example. David Villa would be a better one.

Yes and no Ben. Yeah it's mad what Newcastle are asking for and no it's not a poor example by any means. Adam is a mint player well worth 8 million quid.

I meant positionally, but I also don't think I'd pay much more than £8m for Adam.

£35m for Caroll will be the most ridiculous transfer fee of all time if it goes through IMO. That would make him the 8th most expensive signing ever.

forestfcfan wrote:Carroll is worth no more than £10 Million imo.

And I kinda think you're being serious here m8.



But no, he's worth a decent amount tbh, like 16-22 million.

In a non-inflated market, Carroll would have cost £9-£12 million. With natural Englishman inflation, £15-£18 million. But £35 million takes the piss, and to be honest, I doubt Even Man City would have paid that much.

jeb4eva wrote:

Ben wrote:It's mad, although I think Adam is a pretty poor example. David Villa would be a better one.

Yes and no Ben. Yeah it's mad what Newcastle are asking for and no it's not a poor example by any means. Adam is a mint player well worth 8 million quid.

Bet you're only saying that so nobody takes the piss when you buy him for £12mill.

He's quite overrated of late, offers nothing at all defensively and I think his positional play might get him caught out playing for a bigger team where all his faults will get noticed more. At Blackpool people only tend to see the good stuff as they're punching above their weight, at a bigger club he will be under a much tougher microscope.

I think he is worth around 5-6million until he proves himself with another good season. Same with Carroll, about £15million till he proves himself further. Age is on his side though.

Nice hair and is English.

End of the day it's a big risk to take. He's had half a good season in the prem, so why is he worth so much?

Peter Odemwingie has had a good half season too, maybe he's worth like £25m. Oh wait he's not English

ZlatanFabregas wrote:In a non-inflated market, Carroll would have cost £9-£12 million. With natural Englishman inflation, £15-£18 million. But £35 million takes the piss, and to be honest, I doubt Even Man City would have paid that much.

In a non inflated market players would cost £1 from when football first started

Inflation is part and parcel with our economy....that's just how it works.

ZlatanFabregas wrote:In a non-inflated market, Carroll would have cost £9-£12 million. With natural Englishman inflation, £15-£18 million. But £35 million takes the piss, and to be honest, I doubt Even Man City would have paid that much.

lol He wouldn't go for 15 normally I think. And Citeh are known for spending way over the odds for a player but even they wouldn't spend that ludicrous sum for him.

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As for Adam, well Holloway has done a good job of pipping his boy up. He gets a bit of cash from that deal too right?

kyro7 wrote:Nice hair and is English.

Yeah, lovely hair.

I wouldn't of paid anymore than £18million for him, maximum.

dena wrote:English Premium

As for Adam, well Holloway has done a good job of pipping his boy up. He gets a bit of cash from that deal too right?

700k of it.

Royal wrote:

kyro7 wrote:Nice hair and is English.

Yeah, lovely hair.

Pikey hair...and it's probably true based on his antics.

Rio Ferdinand's twitter:
David villa cost 34m tweeps....integral member of successful spain team and played regular CL...UK market is crazy right now!

It's true, it really is a crazy market in the UK.

Fucking stupid deal.

kyro7 wrote:Nice hair and is English.

Nice long greasy hair I bet.

Dan wrote:Fucking stupid deal.

This coming from a true LFC fan. Dan may I ask you a question m8?

Anyone else find it ironic that Rio is the one to be talking about high transfer fees when he cost £30million, a sum which by defender transfer sums would suggest he was by a country mile the best defender in the world?

yarnbury11 wrote:Anyone else find it ironic that Rio is the one to be talking about high transfer fees when he cost £30million, a sum which by defender transfer sums would suggest he was by a country mile the best defender in the world?

A bit but he was class then.

yarnbury11 wrote:Anyone else find it ironic that Rio is the one to be talking about high transfer fees when he cost £30million, a sum which by defender transfer sums would suggest he was by a country mile the best defender in the world?

That stupid shit he did with the ban aside he was worth it.