The Kopinion: 31+6=35,000,000?

DO THE MATH, DOES 31 APPS + 6 GOALS = 35 MILLION POUNDS? 


Stats Don't lie. Andy Carroll's big money move from Newcastle last January had many a football pundit scratching their heads and rubbing their chins in amazement and rightly so. When I first heard we had signed Andy for 35mill i nearly fell over. Deep down i knew it was too much for a player that hadn't truly proven to be a world class striker at all. Too young and to inexperienced is what i thought and for that kind of money we should be buying a Villa, Messi or Ronaldo.

We as Liverpool fans are a patient bunch, we know to give our new players time to settle in and get use to how we run things, and get into the way we play. A year has passed now and i for one am getting tired of Andy's poor performances. OK people are saying that he's not getting the service. he's not getting any games but one has to earn the right to be in the 1st team regardless of your price tag.

Looking at the above stats from Wikipedia Carroll has played 31 times for us only netting 6 goals.  that's a goal every 465 minutes of football while in a red shirt. simply put not good enough!

Then we need to pose the question why? is it Tactical? psychological or is Andy just not fitting in at the club socially?

Tactical?
English football is built around the tall man and the little man up front package. The tall man wins balls in the air, opens up space for his team mates and is lethal in the air from all parts of the final third. The short man is pacey, energetic, hassling defenders and running into the spaces created by the tall man, he also looks for flick on's and scraps from players in and around the box. Andy fits the description of the tall man to a tea. Does he fit into Kenny's system? does Kenny even have a system? the last 4-6 games would suggest he doesn't and this unsettles players big time. The way Kenny has us playing at the moment it's hard to see where Carroll fits in our team without another striker to play off.

Andy Clarifying with the Kop to which way the goal is

Psychological?
Football is a confidence game. Carroll must be feeling a little stressed out about the growing pressure on his poor performances.  We as a club need to make sure that when he takes the field non of that stuff gets in his head during the game, easier said than done. Player are people so we can't really blame Andy for his lack of confidence instead we should help him get out of his rut as Liverpool fans this is the best way to start getting the best out of Andy.

For the time being Andy is a Liverpool player and as rubbish as he is getting on his back week in and week out will not help him improve his on field performances. Like many Liverpool fans i am so fed up with his total lack of form and involvement in the game that i am about ready to call for his head. He's not the 35 million pound player we bought a year ago, he wasn't the 35 million pound player at Newcastle so as a club we have to put our hand up and say yes he was a panic buy to replace Torres and we totally over paid for him. Is that Andy's fault? No.  Not everything you buy in every day life is good value for money, and in a footballing sense Andy is the same.

I hope we see the best of him for the rest of this season but i feel he'll be moving on in the summer should his form continue.