The Number Nine

[Louis VI the Fat]

Here's another one:

For the 35 million you could get:

-Mesut Özil(12.5)
-Sami Khedira(12.5)
-Javier Hernandez(6)
-Rafael Van der Vaart(8)

....and still have 6 million pounds left to blow on hookers and coke. The amount is retarded.

I am not at all convinced Carroll will manage more goals than battered girlfriends.


But a retarded amount...there's more to running a club than getting good value players. Top quality English players are scarce. But unless you are Arsenal, you will want to have a core group of English players, as Man Ure and even Chelsea have. For reasons of marketing, identity, fan appeal. The issue then is not that 35 million is too much - a quality English striker is easily worth that, more. The issue is that Carrol is basically a youth player, with I think four Premier League games under his belt.

I think Liverpool rushed it. (*tempted to rewrite that into a lame Rush pun*) Too much money in the bank from Torres' sale, new inexperienced owners, a new manager - with a history of spending big.