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Daily Mail
2 days ago
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Lou Teasdale and Andy Carroll maintain their united front after 'Greek bust up' with another steamy public display of affection at Oasis gig - as Geordie striker admits it's 'not the first time I've scored at Wembley'
Andy Carroll and girlfriend Lou Teasdale proved their stronger than ever as they packed on the PDA while watching Oasis at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night. The ex England footballer, 36, and the celebrity hair stylist, 41, looked happier than ever at the band's reunion gig after it was reported that he was questioned twice by Greek police over a series of bust-ups with Lou while the pair holidayed in Mykonos. But putting the 'bust-up' behind them, Andy and Lou hopped on the London Underground to enjoy a date night at the gig watching Liam and Noel Gallagher. The couple were seen kissing and licking each others faces as they posed for selfies in the crowd. Lou joked about the pair not being in hospitality as they sat on the floor ahead of the concert due to having standing tickets at the stadium. She wrote: 'Not indie enough for hospitality we're on the pitch where he belongs'. The couple looked happier than ever at the band's reunion gig after it was reported that he was questioned twice by Greek police over a series of bust-ups with Lou while on holiday in Mykonos In other snaps, the mother-of-one danced on the athletes shoulders to the bands hit songs Roll With It and Wonderwall. She showed off her toned abs in a red Adidas crop top which she teamed with blue jeans while Andy rocked an Oasis T-shirt and a neon yellow bucket hat. Lou wrote: 'My Wonderwall'. Elsewhere at the gig, Dua Lipa and Tom Cruise were among the 90,000 fans belting out Oasis' biggest hits, as the band's acclaimed reunion tour continued with a run of shows in London. Oasis made a long-awaited return to London on Friday, playing their first gig in the city in over 16 years. Following a series of homecoming shows at Manchester's Heaton Park, the rock legends, fronted by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, took to the stage at Wembley Stadium. With five nights scheduled, the band shared door and stage times on their Instagram, providing fans with an hour-by-hour breakdown. Gates open at 5pm, followed by support acts Cast at 6pm and singer Richard Ashcroft at 7pm. Oasis then headline with a two-hour set starting at 8:15pm. The band kicked off their Oasis Live '25 world tour on July 4 at Cardiff's Principality Stadium, earning five-star reviews from The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times. The group has also dominated the UK album charts, with three top five albums, according to the Official Charts Company. While fans were excited at the reunion, some were outraged after some standard tickets in the UK and Ireland jumped from £148 to £355. The controversy prompted the Government and the UK's competition watchdog to pledge to look at the use of dynamic pricing. After their final London gig on August 3, the group will move north to Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium before performing at Dublin's Croke Park. The band will then head to Japan, South Korea, South America, Australia and North America. Andy and Lou's date night comes after the ex footballer was interrogated about the arguments with his make-up artist lover in a restaurant and at their hotel on the Greek party island, The Sun on Sunday reports. Speaking about the first incident, a worker at the Nikolus Tavern told the newspaper: 'He seemed very drunk and furious with his partner. 'He was using very bad words. It was improper behaviour. The woman looked very upset.' According to the restaurant worker, police arrived and took the ex-Liverpool, Newcastle United and England striker aside for a chat, before he was later allowed back to girlfriend Lou. 'Police spoke to him. He was allowed to return, and the couple left after paying for their meal. Andy was very calm when the police arrived — he stood up and spoke to them outside the restaurant', the restaurant worker added. Just hours later, cops were called again by hotel staff following reports of damage in their room. MailOnline understands that the former England forward - once Britain's most expensive Premier League footballer when bought by Liverpool from Newcastle for £35million - was taken to the police station for questioning, but he was not arrested and no further action was taken. The incident was confirmed by a hotel employee, who claimed Carroll broke the door. That night, Lou left the hotel and spent the night at Soho Roc House. MailOnline has approached Carroll and Teasdale's representatives for comment. A joint statement from the couple given to The Sun said: 'Whilst having a private dinner in a restaurant on a quiet holiday in Mykonos, we had a heated discussion of the sort that most couples have had on occasion. It quickly became apparent to the police that there was no reason for them to be there. 'We went outside the restaurant with them together as they insisted they wanted to 'look after' us. 'As far as we are concerned, the situation has been blown out of all proportion by an interested member of the public. No one was arrested and no one was charged with anything. We are very happy, in love and looking forward to our future together and we are disappointed that a private disagreement has become a public matter.' The pair began dating last year after he separated from his TOWIE star wife Billi Mucklow last September. Carroll and Mucklow called it quits divorce after two years of turbulent marriage, the footballer confirmed last year. In 2022, their wedding was almost called off when Carroll was pictured drunkenly passed out in bed with two women in Dubai on his stag do. Mucklow forgave him after one of the women insisted nothing sexual happened. Less than two years after their nuptials, the couple's marriage was over - with Carroll confirming they had started divorce proceedings after 'a hard few months for our family'. Carroll said in a statement at the time: 'Billi and I have privately separated earlier this year and we are under way with our divorce proceedings'. 'It has been a hard few months for our family and we continue to move forward amicably for our children.' Carroll and Mucklow
New York Times
22-07-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Can Hugo Ekitike be the No 9 Liverpool have lacked since Fernando Torres?
The first goal is a piece of typical centre-forward play. Liverpool's No 9 drops a few yards from his marker and serves a winger, whose pass is met by an onrushing midfielder. The No 9 heaves himself to the edge of the six-yard box and makes it 1-0. Later in the game, he scores again from almost the same position, needing only one touch to fire a shot into the roof of the net. The result at Molineux is Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Liverpool 3 and the date is January 22, 2011. The player in red with an illustrious number printed on his back is Fernando Torres; the last classic Liverpool No 9 brought to the club to score goals, and to prove an unqualified successful signing. #OnThisDay 2011 #WolvesLiverpool 🔴⚽⚽🔥@LFC #OTD #TorresLegacy #TBTorres — Fernando Torres (@Torres) January 22, 2020 Hugo Ekitike is the latest to try and break that trend, as Liverpool edge closer to formally confirming his arrival in a deal that could be worth up to £79million. Liverpool are not the only major club to have struggled to find a centre-forward to lean on consistently — Arsenal have struggled to fill the position in recent years while Chelsea have never really replaced Didier Drogba (with the possible exception of Diego Costa). Advertisement One who tried and failed to do just that was, of course, Torres, who left Liverpool nine days after his brace against Wolves in a record £50million ($57.7m) deal. His replacement at Anfield, Andy Carroll, who signed from Newcastle United for £35m, was a No 9 in a traditional sense because, well, you could not exactly miss him. He would deliver key moments for Liverpool, two of them against Everton, ensuring fewer bad words are said about him, but 18 months after his arrival, he was moved out, initially on loan before eventually joining West Ham United in June 2013 for £15m. Iago Aspas was the next No 9 but it was difficult to determine which sort of forward he really was because he barely played, and when he did, he scored only once: against third-tier Oldham Athletic in a third-round FA Cup tie in 2014. He lasted only a season, as did Rickie Lambert, the boyhood Liverpudlian who failed to register a goal at Anfield before sloping off to West Bromwich Albion in 2015. Around this period, Liverpool had Daniel Sturridge and, before Lambert's arrival, Luis Suarez, the Uruguay forward, who, it should be remembered, was originally brought in to supplement Torres. Instead, Suarez and Sturridge became a partnership, and each was worth every penny Liverpool paid for them because they became stars in their own right. But were they No 9s in the truest sense? Suarez's goalscoring record in his last campaign at the club (31 goals in 33 Premier League games in 2013-14) would suggest he was, but his best work, like Sturridge's, was in the channels. Judged against history, they were more Kenny Dalglish than Ian Rush, the club's all-time leading marksman. After Lambert, there was Christian Benteke, who arrived in July 2015 from Aston Villa for £32.5m, the third wearer of the No 9 shirt to last only a season. Under Brendan Rodgers' management, Benteke's job was to operate in central areas and stay high up the pitch. But Rodgers' successor, Jurgen Klopp, wanted something different. Advertisement Roberto Firmino would become Liverpool's No 9 but he did not join as one in July 2015 and, across eight years, his role was not easy to define. Rather than putting the finishing touches to Liverpool's moves, he was instead an orchestrator of their best play, giving others the opportunity to score more than him. Darwin Nunez, who in June 2022 arrived from Benfica for a fee rising to a club-record £85m, would take Firmino's shirt but his troubles in front of goal mean he has not established himself as a first pick and is likely to leave this summer. There have been other contenders since Torres. Divock Origi scored in a Champions League final even if others were always ahead of him. But for a short period following Klopp's arrival, he ended up playing wide as much as he did in the centre. The late Diogo Jota undoubtedly proved himself as a pure No 9, with Jamie Carragher saying last year that he considered him to be the best finisher at the club ahead of even Mohamed Salah. But Jota, for all his obvious gifts, did not join Liverpool as a No 9 in 2020: he had played more from the left for Wolverhampton Wanderers, where Liverpool spotted his potential as a goalscorer. Last season, Arne Slot won the Premier League despite not having a settled centre-forward, with the responsibility shifting according to availability between Jota, Nunez and Luis Diaz. Though Ekitike has played in wider areas for Reims and Paris Saint-Germain, it is likely he will now slip into that role, having scored 15 Bundesliga goals last season, mainly playing through the middle for Eintracht Frankfurt. Omar Marmoush scored the same amount — but the Egypt forward left the club for Manchester City halfway through the campaign. Slot has spoken before about 'multi-functional' forwards, but surely he knows that when you spend north of £80m on a player who has done reasonably well for goals in another top league, he will be judged primarily by the same metric at Anfield. Advertisement It will be interesting to see which number Ekitike inherits because the No 9 will only become available once it is inevitable Nunez is leaving and, aside from Firmino, three other players have not had much luck with it since Torres. Lambert has since spoken not only about the weight of the shirt but also the number as well as the actual position, because he felt as though everyone relied on him, especially after Suarez's departure. Lambert's interest in the club started when Rush was leading the line with the No 9 on his back, and this explains why it was so difficult for so many to initially get their head around the idea that Firmino was not just there to score goals, even though Rush forged a lot of opportunities for himself because, like Firmino, he was a hard worker and an an outstanding presser. Ekitike, though, is not Firmino. He is leaner and quicker, the sort of striker to play off the shoulder of the last defender. His reckoning will come when he is one-on-one with the goalkeeper, very much like Torres. (Top photos: Getty)
Scottish Sun
20-07-2025
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- Scottish Sun
Andy Carroll had ‘6 or 7 bigger clubs' chasing him for ‘more money' as he reveals why he chose Dagenham and Redbridge
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ANDY CARROLL has revealed he could have been playing at a higher level before signing for Dagenham and Redbridge. The former Premier League striker joined the sixth-tier side on a three-year contract after leaving Bordeaux. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Andy Carroll joined Dagenham and Redbridge despite interest from bigger clubs Credit: Getty 2 He will now play just 10 miles from his old club West Ham Credit: Getty Images - Getty Carroll, 36, has already made his first appearance for the club in a pre-season friendly against League Two outfit Crawley Town. The match was not a dream return to England as Dagenham were thrashed 5-1. However, he has admitted that he had offers from at least half a dozen clubs that play at a higher level. The striker has also insisted that his decision was made after speaking to the Daggers' owners and manager. READ MORE ON FOOTBALL END OF THE WORLD Man Utd, Man City and Liverpool STRIPPED of status as world champions He told The Athletic: "From the first meeting with the manager (Lee Bradbury), I just knew it was the right club. "I had probably six or seven clubs on the phone at higher levels, driving distance from home, and more money, but for me, it was the whole package of the club. "I could speak to the owners, and they'd tell me what the future was going to look like. "I could also speak to the manager, and he could tell me what it would be like. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS "I just felt like I wanted to be part of it." His move to Dagenham sees him land just 10 miles away from his old stomping ground, the London Stadium. Footballer Andy Carroll signing for Dagenham and Redbridge FC Carroll spent seven years at West Ham after joining the club from Liverpool - where he was once a £35million signing from Newcastle. During his prime, he earned nine caps for England and scored two goals, including a header at Euro 2012 against Sweden. Now, Carroll has taken on a player-owner role at Dagenham, which has recently been taken over by a Qatari-led investment group.
The Sun
20-07-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Andy Carroll had ‘6 or 7 bigger clubs' chasing him for ‘more money' as he reveals why he chose Dagenham and Redbridge
ANDY CARROLL has revealed he could have been playing at a higher level before signing for Dagenham and Redbridge. The former Premier League striker joined the sixth-tier side on a three-year contract after leaving Bordeaux. 2 2 Carroll, 36, has already made his first appearance for the club in a pre-season friendly against League Two outfit Crawley Town. The match was not a dream return to England as Dagenham were thrashed 5-1. However, he has admitted that he had offers from at least half a dozen clubs that play at a higher level. The striker has also insisted that his decision was made after speaking to the Daggers' owners and manager. He told The Athletic: "From the first meeting with the manager (Lee Bradbury), I just knew it was the right club. "I had probably six or seven clubs on the phone at higher levels, driving distance from home, and more money, but for me, it was the whole package of the club. "I could speak to the owners, and they'd tell me what the future was going to look like. "I could also speak to the manager, and he could tell me what it would be like. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS "I just felt like I wanted to be part of it." His move to Dagenham sees him land just 10 miles away from his old stomping ground, the London Stadium. Footballer Andy Carroll signing for Dagenham and Redbridge FC Carroll spent seven years at West Ham after joining the club from Liverpool - where he was once a £35million signing from Newcastle. During his prime, he earned nine caps for England and scored two goals, including a header at Euro 2012 against Sweden. Now, Carroll has taken on a player-owner role at Dagenham, which has recently been taken over by a Qatari-led investment group. Andy Carroll's career path Andy Carroll's meteoric rise might not have lived up to expectations, but it has been a career full of twists and turns 2006 - Begins to break through with the senior team as a teenager at Newcastle 2011 - Joins Liverpool for a club record fee of £35million 201 2 - Leaves Liverpool for West Ham loan before joining permanently for just £15million 2019 - Returns to Newcastle after a long but inconsistent spell in East London 2021 - Joins Reading following the expiry of his Newcastle contract 2022 - Leaves Reading for a short spell with West Brom, but quickly returns to the Royals 2023 - Moves abroad for the first time in his career with second division French side Amiens SC 2024 - Makes headlines by joining fourth-tier French side Bordeaux following their relegation over financial issues, plays for less than minimum wage 2025 - Departs Bordeaux amicably and returns to English football with Dagenham and Redbridge
Daily Mail
20-07-2025
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- Daily Mail
Andy Carroll opens up on shock Dagenham and Redbridge move and why he turned down 'more money' from 'six or seven clubs at higher levels'
Andy Carroll has revealed the reasons behind his stunning decision to drop down to the sixth tier of English football - admitting he turned down lucrative offers from up to seven clubs at higher levels to join Dagenham and Redbridge. Last week, the former England and Premier League striker signed a three-year deal with the National League South side, also acquiring a minority ownership stake in the club. He had previously played for Bordeaux in the French fourth tier, where he became a fan favourite in his single campaign. The 36-year-old dropped down the divisions and took a huge pay cut, even revealing that he was losing money by playing for them. Now, Carroll has opened up on his decision to choose passion over money again by joining Dagenham. 'From the first meeting with the manager, I just knew it was the right club,' Carroll told The Athletic. 'I had probably six or seven clubs on the phone at higher levels, driving distance from home, and more money, but for me, it was the whole package of the club. 'I could speak to the owners, and they'd tell me what the future was going to look like. I could also speak to the manager, and he could tell me what it would be like. I just felt like I wanted to be part of it.' Regarding his aims with the east London club, the former Liverpool star added: 'I think the main thing that I would like to see is the academy set back up. 'If you've got 60,000 kids in the area under 16, you've got an opportunity. With West Ham around the corner, The Academy of Football, look at the players they've produced over the years. To get that up and running is key for the club - it's a necessity, really. 'You look at the club and you think it's got potential. It's 30 minutes into London on the train. It's a fantastic area. I could go to a League One (third division) or a Championship (second) team, and be mid-table and play bits and pieces, not really enjoying it, and float around. 'Or I could come here, start from the bottom, and have a project where I can work on the pitch and off the pitch to hopefully bring something fantastic to the club in the area.' Carroll started his career at Newcastle before earning a £35million switch to Liverpool in 2011. He played for England nine times, scoring at the 2012 Euros. Carroll also had spells at West Ham, West Brom, Reading and returned to Newcastle before moving to Amiens in September 2023. He stayed in France for the 2024-25 season, and scored 11 goals in 23 matches last season for Bordeaux, who finished fourth in the National 2, France's fourth division.
