The targetman is back on Tyneside after eight years away, and has spoken about the ways in which he has matured in the intervening period
Andy Carroll has admitted he didn’t know who his Liverpool team-mates were when he joined the club back in 2011, because he didn’t watch football.
Then 22, he moved from Newcastle for £35 million ($56m), taking over the number nine shirt at Anfield following the exit of Fernando Torres.
But despite having gained a reputation as one of English football’s hottest young prospects, he admitted to being fairly clueless as to what was going on in the world of football at the time.