Andy Carroll has shed fresh light on just how much his club record move to Liverpool was a genuine step into the unknown.
Carroll became the most expensive signing in the Reds' history at the time when he made a £35million switch from Newcastle United in January 2011.
The transfer, though, didn't work out as intended, despite Carroll scoring famous Wembley goals against Everton and Chelsea in the FA Cup.
The forward netted only 11 times in 58 appearances before joining West Ham United in 2013 having spent a season on loan at the Londoners.
And Carroll, who returned to boyhood club Newcastle this summer, has reiterated how he had to Google some of his new team-mates on the way down to signing on the dotted line at Anfield.
“When I was last here (in Newcastle), I’d go home, mess about with my mates, play football, go out, whatever, but I’d never watch football, I never knew any players," he said, speaking to the official Newcastle United website.
“When I was in the helicopter down to Liverpool, I was like, ‘I know Stevie G, I know Carragher... who else?’. My agent at the time had to tell me, and I would get it on Google and find out the team.
“It’s bad because it’s Liverpool players, but it’s not disrespectful – I just literally didn’t watch football, so I didn’t know."
Carroll arrived at Liverpool on the same deadline day as Luis Suarez joined and Fernando Torres left for Chelsea in a £50m move.
And he recalled: "It was mad. I was in the gym on the bike doing some work and it came up on Sky Sports News – £20m rejected, £25m rejected, £30m rejected.
"Everyone’s coming in saying, ‘what’s happening?’, and I was like, basically, ‘I’m not going anywhere, I’ve got a new contract here’.
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"And then suddenly it was, ‘go and see the gaffer’. Next thing I knew I was in a helicopter to Liverpool.
“I was happy, just about to sign a new deal, and then gone. I’d just bought a house, I’d just got a cat. It was in the house, and I never went back to the house – I left in the helicopter and my brother had to have the cat!”
