Alot of people won't like my opinion but I'm going to say it anyway...
This January has been a nightmare.
Our talisman, our best striker, our Fernando has left us for 30 pieces of silver, stabbed us in the back, prostituted himself to our rivals, dragging our club's name through the mud while doing so...anyway, he's gone now and good riddance.
I can't help but feeling that we paid WAY TOO MUCH for Carroll - please, £35 M? - he is worth £20M maximum. I cant help feeling it is a panic buy and he is totally overated by jingoistic idiots in the media like Adrian durham on talksport..
Caroll is the product over an over-enthusiastic English media over-hyping English players.
another example, why is everyone going totally mad regarding charlie adam? Who is Charlie adam? Why are we so desperate to buy this mediocre player and allowing that loud obnoxious mouthy tart holloway to publically humiliate and ridicule King Kenny's offers for this Championship-level player?
Charlie adam had two good games where he played some Hollywood balls BUT THEN MADE DEFENSIVE MISTAKES where he didn't track back and allowed the opposition to penetrate the midfield (as highlighted in Match of the Day) - anyone can have a run of two good games, it doesn't mean they're suddenly worth £8M.
let's stop over-hyping and over-valuing MEDIOCRE players like caroll and Adam and wanting to buy them just because they had a string of good games - like when Breda Hangelund was flavour of the month and everyone wanted him when Hodgson was in charge of fulham and took them to the europa final - Hangelund was touted as being worth TRIPLE what he is now just because he had a run of good games, eveyone wanted him, Tottenham, Chelsea Arsenal with their crap defence etc...but now, he has shown what an average player he is, making mistakes etc and his value and interest has dropped accordingly. That's just one example, there are many other players who are hyped up beyond belief on the basis of a few good games: Daivid Bentley is another example. Mediocre players with over-inflated price tags.
Charlie Adam is definitely in this category - and Caroll is over-priced and over-hyped as well. £35M???!!! PFFFTTT...
Suarez is the only saving grace to come out of this transfer window - him and King Kenny - King Kenny has dealt with the whole Torres thing really well - allowed the Judas to go without draggng our name in the mud (although the judas did try) and responded with a few transfers of our own (albeit for too much money).
All in all, a NIGHTMARE transfer window for us.
Thank God for Kenny and Luis.
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