'I was last person to see Liverpool signing before he left club – he didn't want to go'

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I was talking to him, it was like £29m… £31m, and I’m like, ‘What, for him?’"We had a really good six months. He moved with his then girlfriend and I think he found that difficult."The transition of being there [Liverpool] and not having the support system that he would have had in Newcastle." Carroll - who made an emotional return to Newcastle in 2019 - previously opened up about his stint at Liverpool, admitting the failure was required to help him grow as a person.Talking to the The Mail in 2019, the Gateshead-born striker said: "I was injured at the time and all I’m thinking is, ‘Please, just fail the medical’.

The minute I got on that helicopter I wanted to come back. I was like, ‘I’m not going’.

But then I was told, ‘You’re going’ and that was that/"I would have rather stayed at the time and all the way to the helicopter I’m thinking, ‘What is happening? What am I doing?’.