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Carrol moved to Anfield during the January transfer window in a last gasp attempt made by Liverpool to replace Fernando Torres. As a result the Reds splashed £35m on the youngster who has had just 1 successful Premier League season, but his ex-boss (Chris Hughton) he was worth every penny, provided he continues his purple patch on the pitch.
"The fee was always going to be about the future. With the money that they got for [Fernando] Torres and what they paid out for Carroll and [Luis] Suarez, at the moment it looks like good business. Only time will tell, regarding the actual figure that they paid for him,
"If Andy continues to make really good progress for Liverpool and England over the next few years then everybody will look at that fee and say it was worth every penny of it, because we now have a player who is possibly worth more. It is a big fee, and I think most people at the time felt that, but these are the market values these days."
Hughton was in charge of Newcastle when they won promotion in 2010 and Carroll was a big part of that side, with his former manager adding that the striker benefited from Newcastle getting relegated a year previously.
"First and foremost, he is definitely one player who benefited from the club being relegated. We had lost Michael Owen, Mark Viduka and Obafemi Martins," he added.
"There is perhaps the train of thought that says if we had stayed in the Premier League we probably would have looked to replace those players with other centre-forwards. The fact that we didn't gave Andy the opportunity to play.
"I think the fact that he got to play on that regular a basis no doubt fast-tracked the qualities that he is now showing.
"He showed that by the end of that Championship season, he was a much better player than when he started it."
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