Why the Carroll loan deal is a failure for Liverpool

Though a die-hard Liverpool fan, I am compelled to say that this transfer season has been … tolerable. But the Andy Carroll transfer is something where I don’t know what I should do, cry or laugh or just live with the times. A player who you pay 35 million euros for and simply send him on loan just because he has a season where couldn’t catch his form. Though some may consider 11 goals in 58 appearances maybe more than just bad form.

Anyways, he goes to his new club and helps set up two goals on his debut. You can call that luck or maybe he got his form back or he is just suited to the style of play there. Might be anyone of these options or maybe even all of them. West Ham might have just carried out a transfer that might change their fate this season. A team which keeps the ball more in the air than on the pitch certainly suits Carroll and surely he’ll have a better time at the Hammers under Sam Allardyce.

Brendan Rodgers was a man I, and how many others, felt would guide Liverpool to a top four finish and the Champions League after a dismal last season. But after the Carroll loan deal, I began to wonder if I was being overly optimistic. Now begging for a striker, Rodgers ‘was sure’ of signing Clint Dempsey but he snubbed them and went to Tottenham. Rather overconfident, he should have bid for Dempsey first and once he had signed, then he should have  offloaded Carroll. But after Dempsey gave the royal snub and Carroll now enjoying life at West Ham, it’s going to be tough for the Reds. With rumors flowing that Del Piero or Drogba are on their way to Anfield, we’ll have to wait and watch. If they don’t come, well Liverpool may have to use Adam Morgan or Suso as 3rd strikers.

But let’s stick to our old phrase – “Man, he is new” or “The season has just started”. And if anyone remembers, Arsenal too had a poor start to the season before finishing third in the table. So let’s be optimistic, fellow Reds, and hope someone comes to the rescue.