Andy Carroll is going nowhere!
Posted on November 9th, 2010 | 68 Comments |
With no quotes or sources to back it up, I pretty much disregarded as utter rubbish, but now Chris Hughton has had his say and put the rumour to bed for good.
Carroll’s stock on the football pitch is rising rapidly and it is expected that he will get a call-up to the next England squad when it is announced later on in the week. Whether it is too early or not for the player is a separate issue really, all he can do is try his best, but it does mean that his star will be burning that little bit brighter, which perhaps inevitably will draw some interest from some of the ‘big-boys’.
“He’s not for sale and we don’t worry about that,” Hughton told The Guardian.
He added; “It’s obvious that, as he continues to improve, his profile will be lifted and interest will be lifted. That’s a normal process that happens with young players.”
I very much doubt that Carroll will want to leave Newcastle anyway. The media types just don’t get it, but Carroll is playing for his boyhood club, in the legendary shirt of that boyhood club, and in the Premier League. What more could be possibly want? Carroll has even said exactly the same himself I beleive, when he signed his new five-year contract recently, and that contract is another reason why Hughton remains certain that bigger lad won’t be going anwhere.
“The best thing from our point of view is that he’s just signed a new contract, was very happy to do that and is delighted to be playing here in his home town.”
Still, at least it shows that Carroll is proving himself where it matters – on the pitch! The problem Carroll has at the moment is that everytime you mention him or talk about him, his off-field antics get called into question. It’s something he will have to live with for a while to be honest.
As for the speculation, don’t believe the hype!
It’s just the next story in the “lets put undue pressure on the Toon and see if we can knock them down a peg or two” merry-go-round that fleet street are peddling at the moment. Maybe they’re getting bored of the Hughton contract non-story and are moving on? After all, it didn’t work to mess up the toon vs arsenal, or the makems, nor did trying to suggest by implication that Caroll was doing drugs.
The most annoying part for me is that us fans – the ones who see through this shoddy so-called journalism – inevitably get sucked in to talking about it, thereby keeping the story alive. So frustrating >_<
HOWAY THE TOON!!