Yeah - as much as Carheex loves to bash Carroll in every thread it doesn't make much sense to sell a player for a 2/3 loss after one and a half seasons, especially when that player is better than quite a few other players in the squad.
And this is the problem - his original fee....it's not what he's worth so we shouldn't be baseing our valuation on anything to do with that figure. It cost people thier jobs so was obviously a huge mistake.
Put it another way, if he'd just spent 12 months at any other club with only a handful of half decent performances and scored just 4 league goals would you be saying he's worth a lot more than £12m??? Not a chance. If he'd been at Aston Villa last season and had exactly the same season, no one would pay more than £4m or £5m for him. People like you, think he's worth 4 times that figure just because we got ripped off ourselves.