Former Liverpool midfield maestro Jan Molby has admitted that he isn't sure how Andy Carroll fits in at Anfield, and he's suggested that the ex-Newcastle striker might be best served by leaving Anfield for a club that's more suited to the way he plays.
When asked by Dutch website Onside.dk whether he thought Carroll would ever fit in at Liverpool, Molby was brutally honest in his response:
"I'm not so sure he will, but I'm sure he'll have a career somewhere.
"I was watching the Newcastle vs Everton match recently and I was thinking to myself that if he'd been playing he would've scored four goals. Newcastle play exactly like he prefers.
"This is why I still see him having a career in a different club that that plays the way that really suits him. Liverpool play football in a different way that's designed to get the best out of players like Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez".
Carroll has struggled for goals since arriving at Liverpool, and his current strike rate is one goal every 363 minutes, but Molby argues that the excuses have to stop some time:
"When things don't happen [for Carroll] then excuses start to pop up about how he was injured when he first arrived at the club, about how he's still young.
"Those excuses won't cut it in the long run. He's been with the club for almost a year and he has to deliver, but he isn't doing so.
Jaimie Kanwar
When asked by Dutch website Onside.dk whether he thought Carroll would ever fit in at Liverpool, Molby was brutally honest in his response:
"I'm not so sure he will, but I'm sure he'll have a career somewhere.
"I was watching the Newcastle vs Everton match recently and I was thinking to myself that if he'd been playing he would've scored four goals. Newcastle play exactly like he prefers.
"This is why I still see him having a career in a different club that that plays the way that really suits him. Liverpool play football in a different way that's designed to get the best out of players like Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez".
Carroll has struggled for goals since arriving at Liverpool, and his current strike rate is one goal every 363 minutes, but Molby argues that the excuses have to stop some time:
"When things don't happen [for Carroll] then excuses start to pop up about how he was injured when he first arrived at the club, about how he's still young.
"Those excuses won't cut it in the long run. He's been with the club for almost a year and he has to deliver, but he isn't doing so.
Jaimie Kanwar
I think onside.dk is a Danish website, not Dutch
ReplyDeleteOnside.dk is from DK = DENMARK (where Molby origins)!!!!
ReplyDeletea bit harsh on a 22 year old, no? or am I being too easy on him
ReplyDeletejamie yes big jan molby is right andy carroll is shit micheal carroll is better another drunk who blew millions
ReplyDeleteIt horrified me when they bought him. He is a Sunday League player but far too slow moving, too slow thinking and clumsy for the top echelons. Send him back to Geordieland with a six-pack.
ReplyDeleteFinally an ex pro who isn't blowing smoke up Carroll's arse. It's about time people came to their senses. The guy isn't cut out for a pass and move team, just another long ball forward and we all know where he belongs
ReplyDeleteSend him and Henderson and Adam and downing to stoke...just because some idiot signed em are we meant to pretend that they are lfc quality ...they are not and never will be
ReplyDeleteyou dont know what your talking about. Obviously u havent watched any of liverpols games otherwise u would know henderson and adam have been playing very well recently !!!
ReplyDeleteNope, Molby isn't saying Carroll is no good. In fact, he acknowledged how good Carroll is by saying he could've scored a number for Newcastle against Everton. He's just saying Carroll and Liverpool aren't a good fit.
ReplyDeletePlease watch some football before making any comments...thank you
ReplyDeletei am undecided on carroll at the moment. I agree that we have not seen the best of him so far. What i dont understand is some liverpool fans calling for torres to come back. here is a player just as out of form as carroll, not even at liverpool as he left on his own terms but is getting more backing from liverpool fans than our own player. i do think the remaining part of the season is a big one for carroll. it will be the next 6 months that will signal whether he has a liverpool future. for this 6 months i will give him my backing and hope he comes good, but if he displays the same form and ability with little improvement then i think i will be with the rest who have already made their descision that he should not be wearing liverpool red.
ReplyDeleteI do accept alot can change in the next few years, Carroll can become a goal scoring machine. But why isn't that happening right now?
ReplyDeletePeople were quick to bash N'gog when he played for Liverpool, and the same people are giving Carroll the support and time that N'gog never had.
My point is this, Carroll should be performing right now, but he isn't. I don't like the excuses of age and body maturity, he was bought for 35 million. So he should at least be performing better.
And now that brings us to him fitting in at Liverpool, which is just another challenge that he is failing to step up to. I've seen numerous times where he just hobbles around 3 or 4 yards, receives a pass, fumbles control, passes awkwardly, while Suarez is making attacking runs receiving passes delicately and passing them first time to an open attacker. They are so mis-match that it is depressing to watch.
Its the little things like just bursting into the box and reading the other players attentions of a pass. There was this one game, dont remember which team it was against, but Carroll made a lunging attempt for a shot after Suarez squared the ball inside the box. Before the lunging attempt he had the movement of a toddler learning his first baby steps. If that was Hernandez he would have been able to get in a position to put his foot through the ball. These little things are what makes strikers lethal, and others mediocre. Right now, Carroll needs to put his head down and just watch himself in the video room and improve. I think he has the pressure in his head to score 30 goals a season and is forgetting that it is the little things on the pitch that get a player to that stage.
Really should have gone for Cavani instead.
ReplyDeleteBaffling that Liverpool didn't go for him, considering they already had Suarez to partner him with. Cavani-Hamsik-Lavezzi is kinda like a Cavani-Gerrard-Suarez, in terms of dynamic of each player.
Last season wasn't a one-off, he is still bagging the goals in.
A better centre forward is Cavani, who can do a shift out wide too.
Pool missed a trick on that one.
Maybe the hunt for 'british-ness' to add to the team has blinded Dalglish in this signning of Carroll.
well said jan molby.
ReplyDeletewe might aswell have kept ngog instead of pissing away millions on carroll.
Have I missed the part where Molby said "He'll never make it at Liverpool..."?
ReplyDeleteStrange.
Yes, you have missed it. In the Dutch article, Molby was asked 'do you think Carroll will make it at Liverpool', to which he responded 'I'm not sure he will'. He then goes on to suggest that Carroll will play better elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteThat part we know. The problem is the price Liverpool payed too much for him so they cant sell him. But lfc need a new striker.
ReplyDeleteGive him more time.
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