{"id":1102631,"date":"2019-08-20T17:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1102631"},"modified":"2019-08-20T17:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:42:39","slug":"andy-carroll-google-liverpool-teammates-newcastle-united","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/andy-carroll-google-liverpool-teammates-newcastle-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Carroll: I had to Google my Liverpool teammates after joining from Newcastle United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andy Carroll has admitted that he had to Google who his new Liverpool teammates were upon his arrival at the Merseyside club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carroll left Newcastle in 2011 to join the Reds, but has now returned to the Magpies eight-and-a-half years later.<\/p>\n<h2>Carroll&#8217;s struggles at Liverpool: Five things to know&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll signed for Liverpool on deadline day in January 2011.<\/li>\n<li>He became the most expensive British player of all time (\u00a335m) when he joined Liverpool.<\/li>\n<li>His first goals came in a 3-0 win over Man City, but he ultimately struggled to consistently find the back of the net.<\/li>\n<li>He left Anfield in 2012 for West Ham in a loan deal that became permanent a year later.<\/li>\n<li>Carroll has now spoken about how he wasn&#8217;t fully aware who played for Liverpool when he signed.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7343141-chelsea-can-get-excited-about-n-golo-kante-s-messi-impression<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his transfer to Anfield,\u00a0Carroll was recently asked by Newcastle&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nufc.co.uk\/news\/features\/i-ve-grown-up-massively-i-ve-realised-my-mistakes-in-the-past-and-realised-what-i-want-to-be-and-what-i-am-big-interview-andy-carroll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>\u00a0whether the rumour that he didn&#8217;t know anyone who played for Liverpool at the time was correct.<\/p>\n<p>He said:\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s actually true.\u00a0When I was here, I\u2019d go home, mess about with my mates, play football, go out, whatever, but I\u2019d never watch football, I never knew any players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d come in on the Friday or wake up on the Saturday morning saying, \u2018who are we playing?\u2019 I was just completely oblivious to all the football that was going on. I would work at the training ground and knew my tactics, but until we had a meeting I didn\u2019t know who we were playing unless I asked someone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was in the helicopter down to Liverpool, I was like, \u2018I know Stevie G, I know Carragher. Who else?\u2019 My agent at the time had to tell me, and I would get it on Google and find out the team. So that\u2019s actually a true story. It\u2019s bad because it\u2019s Liverpool players, but it\u2019s not disrespectful \u2013 I just literally didn\u2019t watch football, so I didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aaron Wan-Bissaka Explained! Squawka Tactics w\/Statman Dave\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UKAT3FOkTg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Carroll looks to bring back the feel-good factor<\/h2>\n<p>On paper, it appears that Newcastle have done a decent job of making up for Rafa Benitez&#8217;s inevitable exit to China.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve smashed their transfer record with the signing of Joelinton as well as bringing in tricky winger Allan Saint-Maximin. They&#8217;ve also brought back Carroll and got local lad and boyhood Newcastle fan Steve Bruce to lead the charge towards Premier League safety.<\/p>\n<p>However, for Newcastle fans, nothing will replace Rafa. He was the difference between relegation and survival for the past two seasons and it&#8217;s hard to envisage anything but a season of struggle at St. James&#8217; Park.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, however, is a fan favourite. His return was met with jubilation by the Toon Army and, should he fire them to a fourth consecutive season in the Premier League, perhaps the pain of Rafa will fade.<\/p>\n<p><script>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='https:\/\/embed.playbuzz.com\/sdk.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','playbuzz-sdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"playbuzz\" data-id=\"9fed2a1e-e3a3-46d7-b0c4-f7c53b7cee74\" data-show-info=\"false\" data-show-share=\"false\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Carroll has admitted that he had to Google who his new Liverpool teammates were upon his arrival at the Merseyside club. Carroll left Newcastle in 2011 to join the Reds, but has now returned to the Magpies eight-and-a-half years later. Carroll&#8217;s struggles at Liverpool: Five things to know&#8230; Carroll signed for Liverpool on deadline&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":1102651,"parent":0,"menu_order":5542,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"%%title%%","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Andy Carroll has admitted that he had to Google who his new Liverpool teammates were upon his arrival at the Merseyside club.","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1102631","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"external_featured_image_url":"","hide_featured_image_pattern":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Andy Carroll: I had to Google my Liverpool teammates after joining from Newcastle United<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Andy 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