I always choose to just take that whole transfer deadline day as a whole. It winds up as Liverpool paid £58m for Carroll and Suarez, and received £50m for Torres.
It seemed to be a fair price for Torres at the time, but knowing how he then did at Chelsea, it now looks brilliant (for Liverpool). If you then think of the Carroll and Suarez deals as £13m for Carroll and £45m for Suarez, it suddenly doesn’t seem like such a bad bit of business at all.
Basically, Liverpool did very well on 2 of the 3 deals - enough to cancel out the one they did badly on.
I always choose to just take that whole transfer deadline day as a whole. It winds up as Liverpool paid £58m for Carroll and Suarez, and received £50m for Torres.
It seemed to be a fair price for Torres at the time, but knowing how he then did at Chelsea, it now looks brilliant (for Liverpool). If you then think of the Carroll and Suarez deals as £13m for Carroll and £45m for Suarez, it suddenly doesn’t seem like such a bad bit of business at all.
Basically, Liverpool did very well on 2 of the 3 deals - enough to cancel out the one they did badly on.