What is a fair price for Andy Carroll?

What price for Andy Carroll? So another day, and another twist in the protracted saga that is Andy Carroll's future.

Will he stay at Anfield? Will he leave for pastures new, or indeed not so new? I'm personally not sure, although it seems as though Carroll is only keen on leaving, either temporarily or permanently, is a club can offer European football.

Alan Pardew attracted a lot of criticism from Liverpool fans during the week as he said pretty much what everyone know and stated that Liverpool are going to have to take a hit if they want to offload their misfiring forward. The rights and wrongs of that have been discussed already, but with Liverpool wanting somewhere in the region of £20m I'm just wondering what a realistic price would be for the most expensive Englishman of all time?

Currently Carroll is rated at £13.5m by Transfermarkt.co.uk which values players on current form. Whether it's right or wrong is up for debate but I'd personally question it.

Of course it's all a matter of opinion but I happen to think that Carroll, based on his last 18 months, is worth no more than £10m. You can call potential as much as you like, but he had that at Newcastle and has so far failed to fulfil it at Liverpool so why should it be a consideration now?

I just think there is a premium being put on the price of Andy Carroll's head by Newcastle fans based on nothing other than the fact he is a Geordie who did well for us for two half seasons - one in the Championship and one in the Premier League. I keep saying this but would people be happy to spend £20m on Kevin Davies who has outscored Carroll in a weaker team? Though not...

End of the day it's a pointless argument I guess. No fans have any real say as to what goes on during transfer negotiations and we aren't privvy to information that is flying around boardrooms currently, plus it's not actually our money which I guess makes it easier to spend.

So, purely theoretical as I don't believe Carroll will be leaving Liverpool anyway, what value would you put on his head if you were making the decision to sign him or not?

P.S: For any Liverpool fans wondering why this has been written, ask your manager who started all of this!