The big transfer rumour breaking this evening was that Newcastle United were lining up a bid to take Liverpool striker Andy Carroll back to Tyneside on loan and while the Magpies’ initial offer has been rebuffed, don’t expect this bit of football news to go away anytime soon.
Mirror Football are reporting that Newcastle are willing to pay £17 million to take Andy Carroll back to the north-east, less than half the amount that Liverpool paid for the Geordie striker just 18 months ago.
While there are developments on this bit of Newcastle transfer news all the time, it is thought that the Magpies offered to take Carroll back on loan for the 2012/13 Premier League season, with a view to a permanent deal.
However, within hours Liverpool turned down Newcastle’s approach, with the two Premiership clubs thought to be way off in terms of their valuations for the 23-year-old striker who netted for England at Euro 2012 last month.
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Liverpool are thought to be demanding that his £75,000 – £80,000 a week wages (different amounts quoted by different sources) are to be paid in full during any loan deal, something the Mirror understood Newcastle were prepared to do.
But Liverpool’s quick rejection suggests that’s not something that Newcastle will agree to, which also puts in doubt the rumour that Newcastle will fork out £17m for a player who struggled last season.
Whether Carroll fits into new Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers’ plans at Anfield remains to be seen, but with Newcastle, West Ham and even AC Milan all circling, don’t expect this rumour to go away anytime soon.
Despite being devastated when he left Newcastle in January 2011, I’d definitely take Andy Carroll back and if a season-long loan deal could be arranged that would be a great bit of business for the Magpies, but of course Liverpool will have other ideas.
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If Newcastle can’t afford his loan wage of £75k, how can they afford a transfer and his wages?
Is Andy Carroll going to take a pay cut?
17 million plus ba and yeah it’s on
He is not worth 17 million! Liverpool were just fools at the time! Hahaha
You’ve missed the decimal point after 1.
Come on be serious, u lot loved him not long ago, second half of last season he was better than ba anyway? He won’t fit into our new style but he will be ok with u lot, yes we had a shocker but this season 5th will be liverpools lowest position
get real will ya u b lucky t finish in the top 8
wot new style the brendan rogers style u be lucky if ur not batlling f relegation watch this space n remember where u heard it first
LOLs
17million and ben arfa! Ba plays just like Carroll so that is a defo no no!
matt the mug
J75J u right if they cnt paid that where will they get the money to pay for his transfer and thy should offer 19.5million then I’m sure liverpool will accept
You having a laugh mate! You’d have to pay us £17million plus Carroll to even speak to Ben Arfa!
Let’s not get carried away here, Newcastle had a very good season and their players over achieved , but let’s not go crazy over good players, Ben arfa is good but not consistent and injury prone, the only player in Newcastle worth over ten million is cisse and cabaye
why is it wen nufc do good weve over achieved get real man w got quality players unlike liverpool who to be honest are sh1te scoucers do me head in the just cant accept the fact that nufc are a better team ur crap man get use to it u never gna be top 4 material u useless
tiote the best plyer in the prem by a country mile so u kna fick all collochinni aknall s taylor wen fit is top dog ur just bitter cos w wallop u this season aknall so sit there w u shell suit n aidas trainers on thinking ur a fashion statement just like ur club behind the times
Sorry boys, I’m from Kent, so please don’t talk to me about being behind the times, u unemployed skint mugs can’t even afford tops, when was the last time u won anything anyway? Fools, finish fifth and u get all carried away! Bless , haha
Mickthemug, u gone all quiet, too drunk? Or do ya need to put fifty pence in the meter, I hope u can borrow it from someone so we can continue our chat! Loser
Tiote best player in the prem? Put your glue bag down and behave yourself!
Matt I too am from Kent but I support NU and have done so for many years… to suggest all Newcastle fans are “unemployed skint mugs” is just taking it completly away from football and is just a poor attempt in my view to troll.
Your angry I get that, I would be too if I supported Liverpool this season
I think you’ve got a slight vein of bitterness there in Newcastle’s ability to acquire world class players who are still improving compared to Liverpool’s ability to acquire Jordan Henderson and Stewart Downing for the cost of the entire Newcastle team.
No doubt the former regime paid far too much although Henderson will come good, Enrique was cheap tho and already has improved vastly at Liverpool, Bellamy was free and he would walk into your team and as for Louis Suarez, he is world class and whatever talent you have there, it will never compare to him, I’m not an idiot who thinks lfc are gonna win the league etc but last year we were about ten to fifteen points down due to horrific luck and missing gerrard and Suarez for 2 months didn’t help, please don’t get carried away with coming above us for once, we both know it won’t happen again anytime soon
We will continue to beat Liverpool next season just as we showed we can beat both them and Rogers’ old team last season…with 4 goals from Cisse!
We did beat u at anfield to be fair and only again down to bad luck and a certain hand ball on the line I believe from Simpson from ironically a Carroll header and a red card for pepe reina did u win at your place, no doubt u will ignore these facts, if only we could put a bet on who will finish higher, I love the Geordie enthusiasm but it does lack common sense
Newcastle were missing tiote and ba during acon and did not sign cisse till end of jan so missing two players is just a load of bull the toon were a better team last year and will be this year. And the ifs and buts during games don’t stand if that chelsea player got sent off in the second min if taylor didn’t get injured. We would have won the league
Liverpool is in no hurry to sell with Milan being interested I think they will wait and see.
If Milan sell Ibrahimović they can maybe do the deal with Liverpool, swap for Pato would be possible because both of them have similar contract terms, Pato struggled there while Carroll can find CL football in Milan.
Now, if Newcastle comes in with decent offer than the deal could be made but, and players like Ben Arfa would sure be interested to go to Liverpool, not that I think it would happen.
I have no reason to think Rodgers is interested in Ben Arfa.
‘We both know it won’t happen again anytime soon’ – The arrogance of Liverpool fans is the reason I don’t like the club, exemplified by you. It’s a shame really because I thought they were great when they won CL in 05. I hope for your sake that Henderson does come good…the lad is shocking. And as for Bellamy, he walked into our team 10 years ago. When he was decent. The fact that he dropped to the championship and that you let him go to West Ham shows that both he and Liverpool know that he is past it.
We signed him from man city? It’s not arrogant to say we’ll Finnish higher than Newcastle is it? Do you now claim to be bigger and better than Liverpool based on that one season, come on you seem to know your football and you’re better than that, we’ll come about fifth and you’ll be sixth or seventh, but it is nice to win a trophy every now and again
Bellamy would walk into nufc team??? Haha don’t be daft
Only cabaye and cisse worth over 10m??? Hahahah hilarious.
Krul
Coloccini
Tiote
Cabaye
Ben arfa
Cisse
Off the top of my head that is. Vuckic definitely one to watch as well and if Jordan Henderson is worth 20m Jonas Gutierrez is worth 50m.
And as for being unrealistic: our home game vs Liverpool was won based on the fact that we we much better than Liverpool on the day as was the case for the majority of the season, nothing unrealistic there. And Liverpool were already losing 2-0 when reina got sent off so hardly a gamechanger
Oh and Enrique hasn’t improved at Liverpool he was just as good for us – he is excellent, part of him will wish he’d stayed though but I understand why he chose to leave
So at 0-0 us having a penalty and you having ten men wouldn’t have changed things? You do have good players but all the names you mentioned, let me compare
Reina better then krul
Aggressive and skertal both superb and all top clubs r after them, a certain Steven gerrard who is still and proved in the euros is England’s by far and away best player, Lucas Leica who is Brazil’s centre midfielder and we missed soooo much last season, and Louis Suarez who again all top teams want, does that put things into perspective for you? Or is Nile ranger suddenly europes top property?
Aggressive btw is meant to be agger
You signed him from Man City after he signed for them from West Ham, whom he signed for from you. Then he moved to Cardiff…although fair play, probably for nostalgic/family reasons.
I’m not claiming anything about being bigger than Liverpool, but I believe at this moment in time we are managed better and playing better football, making more shrewd signings. I’d love to keep in touch with you to see who is right come May 2013. A Liverpool-Newcastle Europa tie would be perfect.
You claimed earlier that 5th would be the lowest possible finish, and now say that you’ll ‘come about fifth’. Do not come on a Newcastle forum with arrogant claims of grandeur that you are not willing to stick to and childish excuses for losing a match if you are not willing to respect our club and our players.
I haven’t been disrespectful at all, last season u were managed better and at times played better football, the handball incident was a game changer though, at 0-0 surely u can admit that, yes I think fifth this season and higher the season after and I hope you do well, I’ve always liked Newcastle, one of your lot called us Liverpool fans arrogant?? Really? By saying fifth and we’ll finish higher than Newcastle is hardly arrogance is it? Shrewd signings yes, we stupidly went for brittish talent which is pointless as we have the only decent English player already, I’d love cisse at Liverpool and cabaye so no I haven’t come on here and been disrespectful at all, just realistic
LOL@ Enrique has “improved vastly at Liverpool” comment.
You never saw play @the toon then.
him*
I just think it’s incredibly ironic that you’re licking Suarez’s boots while complaining about a ‘game-changing’ handball on the line!!!
‘does that put things into perspective for you? Or is Nile ranger suddenly europes top property?’ = Disrespectful, typical Liverpool fan.
Oh and by the way, it’s the same regime, just a different manager.
You called Henderson shocking so mocking Nile ranger is only fair, the regime I refer to is dalgliesh and commoli and Suarez got sent off and a penalty was given for his hand ball so that point was a bit irrelevant. To call Liverpool fans disrespectful is literally unbelievable, we clap returning players to anfield, we clap goalkeepers at the kop end, the abuse Carroll got was pathetic and disgusting. He may be back with u soon, will those mugs be shouting abuse at him then? Liverpool respect our own players and the opposition (unless it’s man united of course)
All these liverpool fans sending hate just remember what your amazing player said about joining from Newcastle to Liverpool… and not Andy Carroll.
“Newcastle will never finish in the top 6 the way they are going”
so he went to a club that would finish in the top 6…
was the same player who said after winning the league cup
“is great to be in a club where we win cups”
and if your still struggling on who I am talking about just remember who was in goal for you when we beat you 2-0 after your goalie was sent off (after perch dramaqueened a headbut)
yeah this may be a one off season we finish above you but you guys really need to improve before you can throw comments on one season wonders