Former Newcastle striker Andy Carroll has revealed his hopes of joining Liverpool were shaky at the time and he hoped it would fall through at the last minute.

    The big striker made his name with the Magpies and was hand the ทางเข้า ufabet https://ufabet999.app club’s iconic No.9 shirt before moving to Liverpool for £35m on deadline day of the 2011 summer transfer window. After the Reds lost Fernando Torres to Chelsea.

    However, Carroll said the move is something he never expecte. At the time, he did not understand what was happening because he was settling down by buying a new dream house, but had to move without even living in the new house.

    “I had just bought my dream house in Newcastle. I had just signe a new contract. With the club and then I was picked up and then you went. Carroll recalled during an interview with the Daily Mail. “To be honest I didn’t really know what was going on.

    “Sky Sports reported that Tottenham had had a £30m bid rejected for Carroll, then Liverpool had a £35m bid accepted. I went to the manager, he rang the owner and the owner said, ‘Yeah, you have to go’.”

   “There was a lot of media outside the training ground, so I got in the back seat of Kevin Nolan’s car, left my car at the training ground and went to sit in his room watching the film, and all the news that came out was about me.”

    “I was sitting there thinking, what happened? I got calls from my parents, from friends, saying, ‘What happened?’ I didn’t really know what happened. Then I got a call from my agent saying, ‘The helicopter’s ready. We have to go.'”

    “I had no clothes, no bags, nothing, just my bare body. In less than an hour, I was gone. I just bought a house. It took me a week to fix it up. I haven’t even moved in yet!”

    “I actually wanted to stay, but after Liverpool made this incredible offer on the last day of the transfer window, I found myself on the helicopter with no idea what was going on.