Townsend's lack of end product means saints will want no part of him, same with swansea, stoke, newcastle, etc.Townsend is a squad player for a lower mid table PL side, lol. I can understand him not being a top player but outside the top 6 or 7 he would start for most teams. I wouldn't be surprised if Southampton come back in for him
As for Carroll, he was more highly rated than every player you listed by our coaches. Lets not forget a year ago, pretty much everyone thought mason would be thrown on the scrapheap.
Carroll is the 5th CM for Swansea and doesnt show anything very impressive. He does a job. Rarely bad but rarely noteworthy. For us, he'd be 6th CM i think.