If his injury is a straightforward thigh strain, why does he have to go to Sweden to get it looked at?
Have we given £35m to NC irrespetcive of his appearances for the club? If we have, then we've gambled on this being a simple strain when it could be the first signs of a chronic problem. I know you're going to say that the medics will, of course, have considered this, but when? The deal was concluded so quickly that a proper assessment would have been nigh on impossible.
Carroll has a huge hulk of a frame and if anybody is going to have problems he'd be one. His lifelstyle is hardly likely to compensate for this and, to my mind, this is potentially, very bad business.
OK he might recover and turn into a goal machine but I don't see how, on present evidence, this is any kind of certainty and for the money we've handed over I'd like to at least start with a clean slate re-injuries.
Adam would have added more for less and we could have spent the rest of the money in the summer. By the time Carroll's fit the season wil be drawing to a close and we'll have had no benefit from his arival.
