As the news settles in this morning that Newcastle forward Andy Carroll has joined Liverpool for a record breaking fee believed to be in the region of thirty five million pounds, football fans across the country will wake up this morning wondering how high transfer fees will spiral to next! With only one cap under his belt and a current injury hanging around, is he really worth it?
Not only that but leaving the Merseyside club, Spaniard Fernando Torres joined Chelsea for fifty million making him the fourth most 'valuable' in the world. Unlike Carroll's brow raising deal, Torres' move is less controversial with numerous pundits suggesting that the player deserves the high price tag despite a dip in form at the start of this season. But is football going mad? Are transfer fees becoming a little ridiculous!?
With the country suffering through a recession, is it fair that large quantities of money are bouncing around from club to club? Should players such as Torres be earning one hundred thousand a week while our nurses are getting no more than twenty five grand a year or our fireman on about twenty eight million!?
Newcastle fans won't be pleased to have lost their most valuable player and manager Alan Pardew will have a lot of explaining to do at his next press conference. Who can he turn to fill the void left by the Geordie hitman? Having not secured any type of replacement before the deadline closed at midnight, can Newcastle really survive with only unreliable Shola Ameobi, inexperienced Leon Best or nineteen year old Nile Ranger at their disposal.
And having promised to keep the services of the Magpies number nine, Pardew will have to face the wrath of the passionate Geordie fans. They'll be angry that public enemy number one, Mike Ashley sold Carroll down the river but the realists will understand the offer was too tasty to turn down!
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