Carroll signs

TaniaP wrote:

Tony P wrote:

SemiOldIron wrote:

Dan C wrote:It will directly affect West Ham though dude - the unearthed gems will start wanting to go to France and Germany if the money goes there and it will become increasingly difficult for us to attract the unknown Yossi Benayouns and Demba Bas that we have in the past. The big money from the Sheikhs and oil barons does help the rest of the league too - where would we have been without £12.6m of Abramovich's money when Chelsea signed Joe Cole and Glen Johnson just after we'd been relegated in 2003?

Having players like Suarez in our league also helps our young English players and, therefore the national team. James Tomkins and James Collins both had excellent games testing themselves against Suarez at Anfield. Daniel Sturridge will learn plenty from him in training too to make him a better player at both club and international level.

But Dan, the man is a shit - a talented shit, but a shit nevertheless. If he turned out in a West Ham shirt I would be ashamed ( I had enough trouble with Bellamy till I learnt about his charity work). IMO the Mousers are reluctantly coming to the conclusion that most people have already reached, that the man tarnishes their club no matter how many goals he scores.

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JulianDicksLeftKnee wrote:No brainer really. 20+ goals a season.

Far as I have seen he has done nothing worse on the pitch than bite someone-as in put his mouth on their arm, and whatever went on with Evra-if anyone here can say they never racially abuse anyone in their own language-let alone a foreign one-then they could disagree.

Football fans are fickle-ten minutes and 3 goals and he would be the next PdC-a player who came with history is now revered.

It won't happen anyhow!

Tony P wrote:You probably approve of hate preaching too Stoobs

Stooby Doo 2002 wrote:

Tony P wrote:You probably approve of hate preaching too Stoobs

Stooby Doo 2002 wrote:I would have Suarez in my team any day of the week. Sure he has his moments but he doesn't bite people every week, he doesn't handball a goal on purpose every week, he doesn't get given a penalty every week........PDC pushed a ref over and whacked up a fascist salute, beat one of his players up in the tunnel for poor performance and an argument, broke into his old office to get things when he could have quite simply asked for them back.......Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a football fan (all be it one who was abusing him) and was the most arrogant footballer I had ever seen.......Half the premier league have cheated on their wives.......Roy Keane deliberately went out to end a players career.......Vinny Jones and Dennis Wise were some of the most nastiest pieces of work the premier league had seen.......Sir Alex Ferguson intimidated officials on a weekly basis (A managerial version of simulating a foul)going back further George Best was an alcoholic, Tony Adams was a drug user/alcoholic/gambler, Gazza had the diet of a sumo wrestler, Bruce Grobbellar was given bungs, top players have coincidently missed drugs tests on more than one occasion.......This stuff is a talking point for fans of the game, if everyone was clean cut and salt of the earth then football would be a boring game with interviews starting with "What a jolly good show"

Controversy is a somewhat essential part of the game be it a players behaviour, a bad decision from a ref, a dive, a crowd incident, a transfer coup etc

Going back to the main point, the fact that he has bitten 2 people, SOMETIMES uses his hands to gain an advantage (Every player would if they knew they could get away with it) and dives a bit I would still have him up front banging in 20 goals a season......No questions asked!

Campo wrote:New kit is officially released on Thursday, bet Carroll's signing is announced then

JulianDicksLeftKnee wrote:Kieron Dyer




Indeed ! If any player should only have been signed on a "pay as you pay" deal it was him