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Sir Alex interested in bringing young sensation to Old Trafford.


Sir Alex Ferguson is apparently lining up a move for Newcastle United’s in form young forward Andy Carroll. The Manchester United boss wants to bring in more youth to his Old Trafford squad and believes that the Gateshead born 21 year old has the potential to become a Premier League star and may decide to make a summer move for the St James’ Park starlet.

Carroll has had a marvelous season in the Championship where his 17 goals have been crucial to the club’s success. The youngster has of course had some off field problems but Ferguson is probably just the type of boss who could help keep the player on the right path.

Chris Hughton is sure to fight off interest in a player who appears to have the footballing world at his feet and clearly Carroll loves playing for his local club and may feel that Newcastle are on their way back up the footballing ladder but he could still have his head turned by interest shown in him by the Premier League champions.
 
i think he is quality.
but with welbeck, macheda, mame biram , and now hernandez in our squad, i don't see the the point. though i rate him higher than macheda and mame biram
 
I've only watched him a few times at the U21 level and he's never really impressed me. Seems to be a bit of a cnut as well.
 
Oh my fecking god. The most talentless fecking lump. Lets bring Ameobi in to complete the line up of useless lumps.
 
Domzi said:
Oh my fecking god. The most talentless fecking lump. Lets bring Ameobi in to complete the line up of useless lumps.
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:rolleyes: To compare Carroll with Ameobi shows you have not got a clue...it would pay you to actually watch some of his games.

Carroll has bags of potential and would certainly become a better player learning from Ferguson and his coaching staff.

Hopefully the lad stays with Newcastle United...that's if he's not banged up at his forthcoming trial.
 
Caroll's good but does he offer much more than Macheda? Aerial ability, English and long hair I suppose. He would be shit with short hair.
 
He's never seemed particularly mobile when I've seen him. But he is good in the air, and I guess he'd thrive on the sort of delivery we've been getting in from the wings this season.

If I was pressed, I would say he won't be good enough for us, but you never know. Depending on Newcastle's financial situation, Fergie might fancy bringing him in if the fee was right.
 
Brophs said:
He's never seemed particularly mobile when I've seen him. But he is good in the air, and I guess he'd thrive on the sort of delivery we've been getting in from the wings this season.

If I was pressed, I would say he won't be good enough for us, but you never know. Depending on Newcastle's financial situation, Fergie might fancy bringing him in if the fee was right.
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Do you not have any faith in MU's coaching team making what, to a large extent, is currently raw talent/enthusiasm/youth into something better/special?

Admittedly he's only done it in the Championship and the PL is a huge leap but currently Carroll wins everything in the air, works his socks off, has great strength and is suprisingly quick footed for a big lad.

With the right manager/coaches I think he has the potential to do well.
 
Marching said:
Do you not have any faith in MU's coaching team making what, to a large extent, is currently raw talent/enthusiasm/youth into something better/special?

Admittedly he's only done it in the Championship and the PL is a huge leap but currently Carroll wins everything in the air, works his socks off, has great strength and is suprisingly quick footed for a big lad.

With the right manager/coaches I think he has the potential to do well.
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It has nothing to do with faith. But coaching only goes so far. You won't make a good player a great one unless he has the ability. I don't watch him as often as you do. But no, I don't see enough there for us to be able to make him 'special' or even good enough for us. The margin is so fine between being 'good' and 'good enough'.

But as I said, I don't watch him, so I'm forming that opinion on the basis of maybe 10-15 games. Perhaps I'm wrong. If he does well in the PL next year then he may get the chance to prove it.
 
Needs a season in the PL first

seen him play a couple of times, impressed me

I was actually thinking that he's more of a Rafa player though
 
Brophs said:
It has nothing to do with faith. But coaching only goes so far. You won't make a good player a great one unless he has the ability. I don't watch him as often as you do. But no, I don't see enough there for us to be able to make him 'special' or even good enough for us. The margin is so fine between being 'good' and 'good enough'.

But as I said, I don't watch him, so I'm forming that opinion on the basis of maybe 10-15 games. Perhaps I'm wrong. If he does well in the PL next year then he may get the chance to prove it.
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I hear what you are saying and certainly being 'good enough' for MU is different again to being 'good enough' for most of the other PL teams...I haven't seen much of Macheda so can't be certain but Carroll IMO could be the better player and certainly offers something different.

It also maybe the case that the future MU stars are already in the OT youth set up and even at the tender age of 21 Carroll has missed the boat.
 
I like how the article say Fergie wants to bring in more youth;

King, Keane, Macheda, Welbeck are all younger and all have good potential. I'd sooner develop them than buy Carroll.

Then you have Diouff and Hernandez, who are a year older than Carroll I think. Add them 6 to Rooney, Owen and Berbatov we have 9 strikers next season. 7 of whom have played at some time this season.

We honestly do not need him, and I don't think he'll suit our style of play.
 
Marching said:
I hear what you are saying and certainly being 'good enough' for MU is different again to being 'good enough' for most of the other PL teams...I haven't seen much of Macheda so can't be certain but Carroll IMO could be the better player and certainly offers something different.

It also maybe the case that the future MU stars are already in the OT youth set up and even at the tender age of 21 Carroll has missed the boat.
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Sorry, but :lol:

Come and talk about this when Carroll scores a goal of the quality that Macheda produced for us on his debut against Villa.

Carroll is a lump.
 
Complete cnut of a person. Or so I've heard.
 
Feed Me said:
Sorry, but :lol:

Come and talk about this when Carroll scores a goal of the quality that Macheda produced for us on his debut against Villa.

Carroll is a lump.
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This makes me laugh. Macheda might be considerably younger but as of right now Carroll has proven far, far more. 19 goals for him this season, yes it might be the Championship but the Championship is at a much higher level than the reserve leagues that's for sure.

Evidently Carroll is twat off the field but he's fantastic in the air, not just big either he's got great heading technique. Definitely there's plenty potential there and it wouldn't suprise me to see him scoring a lot of goals in the Premiership somewhere down the line.
 
Myxomatosis said:
This makes me laugh. Macheda might be considerably younger but as of right now Carroll has proven far, far more. 19 goals for him this season, yes it might be the Championship but the Championship is at a much higher level than the reserve leagues that's for sure.

Evidently Carroll is twat off the field but he's fantastic in the air, not just big either he's got great heading technique. Definitely there's plenty potential there and it wouldn't suprise me to see him scoring a lot of goals in the Premiership somewhere down the line.
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I'm not judging his off field character.

Macheda clearly has a lot more ability - this is clear from the cameos we have seen. Carroll is a one dimensional player.
 
Myxomatosis said:
This makes me laugh. Macheda might be considerably younger but as of right now Carroll has proven far, far more. 19 goals for him this season, yes it might be the Championship but the Championship is at a much higher level than the reserve leagues that's for sure.

Evidently Carroll is twat off the field but he's fantastic in the air, not just big either he's got great heading technique. Definitely there's plenty potential there and it wouldn't suprise me to see him scoring a lot of goals in the Premiership somewhere down the line.
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That depends on how you define proven. There are a lot of players that are great in the Championship, that does not manage shite when they get to the Premier League. Ebanks-Blake was great with our reserves, good at Plymouth and then great at Wolves... until they were promoted, he has only been able to score 2 this season. Frankly a lot of players that has been great at Newcastle this season was awful when they left the Premier League a year ago.

Macheda has already been a key man to a Premiership title, two extremely important match winners last season, his injury plagues this season are really misfortune to his development. Even though I can't know, but my educated guess is that he would be one of the top players in the Championship if he played for Newcastle this season too. He does not have many minutes, but on the short time he has played in the Premier League - Macheda has proven quite a bit.
 
Even if he's scored a bundle of goals in the Championship his finishing and composure doesn't really impress me that much, missing loads of sitters at times.

He is just a targetman and while I think he'll have a future in the England team, he lacks the quality to become a top four striker.
 
Marching said:
:rolleyes: To compare Carroll with Ameobi shows you have not got a clue... it would pay you to actually watch some of his games.

Carroll has bags of potential and would certainly become a better player learning from Ferguson and his coaching staff.

Hopefully the lad stays with Newcastle United...that's if he's not banged up at his forthcoming trial.
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Why? Everything you are saying was said about Ameobi when he broke through. And he did it in a decent premier league team, not the championship. Also Eriksson was talking about him being a key player for England in the future. Of course Eriksson soon lost his job :lol:
 
Ekeke said:
Why? Everything you are saying was said about Ameobi when he broke through. And he did it in a decent premier league team, not the championship. Also Eriksson was talking about him being a key player for England in the future. Of course Eriksson soon lost his job :lol:
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Eriksson must have been on drugs if he said that about Ameobi....he's one of the worst players I have ever seen...with most things that go right for him being down to luck. I laugh at him regularly.


Feed Me said:
Sorry, but :lol:

Come and talk about this when Carroll scores a goal of the quality that Macheda produced for us on his debut against Villa.

Carroll is a lump.
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And what's he done since 5th April 2009?
 
Feed Me said:
I'm not judging his off field character.

Macheda clearly has a lot more ability - this is clear from the cameos we have seen. Carroll is a one dimensional player.
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Sure he is. But so are plenty of solid Premiership strikers. Macheda has some way to go to become one of those. I don't want to comment on Macheda's potential, but right now Carroll is evidently the better player.
 
We already have 4 "they may develop into a top class striker" prospects, we don't need another.
 
Sean_RedDevil said:
Carroll´s hair > Torres hair
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:lol:

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