Andy has no future at Anfield

[Modo]

Carroll stinger: Liverpool's Rodgers drops huge hint that £35m Andy has no future at Anfield

5 Apr 2013 22:30

Target-man: Carroll could make his West Ham loan permanent but has also been linked with Newcastle

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Brendan Rodgers will refuse to let Andy Carroll leave Liverpool on the cheap, but admits his Anfield blueprint is designed around Luis Suarez.

On-loan Carroll can’t play for West Ham against his parent club on Sunday, but the £35million man is still the centre of attention going into the match.

Reds manager Rodgers said: “It’s absolutely the case that, just the same as last season, if the player does leave, then it won’t be for nothing.

“It’s no fault of his own, but he came here for an astronomical fee.

“There is no doubt Andy has real qualities – some of his goals from set plays with West Ham have proven that. There is the financial aspect to it. He won’t be leaving on the cheap.”

Some-time England centre-forward Carroll is the Merseysiders' all-time record signing and is on £80,000 a week but doesn't seem to fit into a game-plan that focuses on Suarez's talents.

“With every player it is about the style, and how they fit into that," added Rodgers.

“We are a team that is set up to exploit Suarez’s qualities, and he has flourished in the roaming role we have given him

“We are the second-highest goal-scorers in the league, so we have been able to score goals all season – and we are happy with playing around a talent like Luis.

"The club can’t have that money sat on the bench, in terms of what Andy cost and his wages.

“The big boy’s gone out and he’s scored five goals, probably not played as often as he and West Ham would have liked, but there was a massive price tag on him and we have to consider that.”

 

[FoxForceFive]

I'd be amazed if we get more than 12m for him.

Injury free he'd be perfect for that West Ham side.

 

[Markeh]

I reckon he'll be wearing black and white next season unless he's taken a liking to London

 

[gkmacca]

Coach of the year, so he is!

 

[gkmacca]

He's too tall.

 

[mark1975]

Coach of the year, so he is!

I think it's pretty fair, brutal maybe, but lets be honest, he's only saying what we already know. Suarez is the one we need to keep hold of and that statement is as much about dressing up Suarez as it is about stating the obvious about Carroll.

As for the 'coach of the year' comment, let's be fair Macca. He's gotten the best from alot of players in the squad who were hit and miss last year.

 

[6TimesaRed]

Papers where littered with Ben Arfa trade this morning...

Rodgers pretty much denied he knew anything about that on Talkshite too..

 

[FoxForceFive]

Papers where littered with Ben Arfa trade this morning...

He pretty much denied he knew anything about that on Talkshite too..

The silly git also said every time we look above us & consider champions league footy we have messed up. Followed by the sentence 'but we believe we have a good chance of getting there so we'll see'.

FFS man! Stop. Just stop. If you hear sounds when you open your mouth. Stop moving it.

 

[Modo]

"End of the line" too offensive?

 

[6TimesaRed]

"End of the line" too offensive?

No, not at all cocked up the modding side of things, merged than decided to re-split and lock the other Carroll thread..

 

[Modo]

Oh, fair play then

 

[6TimesaRed]

The silly git also said every time we look above us & consider champions league footy we have messed up. Followed by the sentence 'but we believe we have a good chance of getting there so we'll see'.

FFS man! Stop. Just stop. If you hear sounds when you open your mouth. Stop moving it.

Yeh I did laugh when he said that... Cue a defeat against West Ham 🙁

Alex Mcleish who was on with Brazil in the morning when the interview took place, sounded almost as dull and boring as the football he get his teams playing...

 

[Ryan]

Coach of the year, so he is!

Pffft. We're not a fucking shelter.

 

[Hyena]

It's true but saying it publicly just lowers the price.............

 

[jimmy]

Yep. Silly Brendan. Next time just say that Carroll is world class and worth every penny of the 35M paid for him. He's not for sale as he's the future of the club.
Saying this will surely bring Real and Chelsea knocking on our door offering 50M for Andy.

 

[doctor_mac]

I have to say, from the get-go, Rodgers looked like a rank amateur in his dealings concerning Andy C, in a way that isn't generally true. I think there might be something in those stories that AC tried to have a go at him last season. He is irrational about him.

 

[#roadred]

Rodgers would starve as a used car salesman! Shut up!!! At least until Carroll is sold

 

[Woland]

Any truth in the rumour that Andy pissed himself laughing at that pic Rodgers has of himself in the hall?

 

[RedStar]

Any truth in the rumour that Andy pissed himself laughing at that pic Rodgers has of himself in the hall?

Yeah right, anybody with Carrolls haircut would consider that picture to be a tasteful piece of art

 

[Woland]

Say what?

 

[RedStar]

Say what?

In Dalis defense he probably got that picture as a gift off somebody who worked for a local charity, hes clearly a little embarrassed, even his tash looks surprised

 

[Molbystwin]

Carroll stinger: Liverpool's Rodgers drops huge hint that £35m Andy has no future at Anfield

5 Apr 2013 22:30

Target-man: Carroll could make his West Ham loan permanent but has also been linked with Newcastle

​

Brendan Rodgers will refuse to let Andy Carroll leave Liverpool on the cheap, but admits his Anfield blueprint is designed around Luis Suarez.

On-loan Carroll can’t play for West Ham against his parent club on Sunday, but the £35million man is still the centre of attention going into the match.

Reds manager Rodgers said: “It’s absolutely the case that, just the same as last season, if the player does leave, then it won’t be for nothing.

“It’s no fault of his own, but he came here for an astronomical fee.

“There is no doubt Andy has real qualities – some of his goals from set plays with West Ham have proven that. There is the financial aspect to it. He won’t be leaving on the cheap.”

Some-time England centre-forward Carroll is the Merseysiders' all-time record signing and is on £80,000 a week but doesn't seem to fit into a game-plan that focuses on Suarez's talents.

“With every player it is about the style, and how they fit into that," added Rodgers.

“We are a team that is set up to exploit Suarez’s qualities, and he has flourished in the roaming role we have given him

“We are the second-highest goal-scorers in the league, so we have been able to score goals all season – and we are happy with playing around a talent like Luis.

"The club can’t have that money sat on the bench, in terms of what Andy cost and his wages.

“The big boy’s gone out and he’s scored five goals, probably not played as often as he and West Ham would have liked, but there was a massive price tag on him and we have to consider that.”

I think that is a silly thing to say by Rodgers, firstly everyone knows Andy doesnt suit our needs at the moment so why bother to reiterate that, secondly saying that he is not needed is only going to bring down the price for a saleable asset. IMO Andy Carrol is a good playe and would well be worth a good price to the right side.

 

[the count]

I think the world and his wife knows that Andy Carroll does not have a future at Liverpool.
It is not exactly the revealing of the third secret of Fatima.

Rodgers could say all the right things about him and still the likes of Newcastle, West Ham or Stoke will know that he is for sale and we are desperate to sell

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

I'd be surprised if things shared with the press have material effect on stuff which have probably been discussed and/or agreed to in the background between clubs, agents, managers and players for the past few months.

 

[mark1975]

Exactly. He's just stating the obvious. There seems to be this thing that you "just don't say it". Everyone knows anyway!

 

[Stulikesdrums]

I can't wait until he's gone out of the club.
Don't care how much we get for him. Don't care where he goes.
He's a fucking donkey.

 

[Mersey86]

Brendan's just playing with us. Suarez is on his way in the summer and Big Andy will be the new plan A.

 

[Modo]

Brendan's just playing with us. Suarez is on his way in the summer and Big Andy will be the new plan A.

Oh God...

 

[King Binny]

West Ham will have to pay Liverpool £1million if they beat the drop as part of Andy Carroll’s loan deal, writes the Sunday People.

A clause in the contract which took the 24-year-old striker to Upton Park will be triggered as soon as the Hammers retain their Premier League status.

The seven-figure sum was inserted because the undisclosed loan fee was believed to be small – and a drop in the ocean compared to the £25m the Hammers will receive for being part of the Premier League next season when the new TV rights deal kicks in.

Sam Allardyce’s side, who take on Liverpool at Anfield this afternoon, are 12th in the table, six points above the relegation zone with eight games left.

Carroll has scored five goals in 21 appearances for West Ham, including a double in the vital 3-1 victory over West Brom last weekend.

Newcastle will have to come up with £17million in cash if they want to take striker Andy Carroll back to Tyneside.

The Magpies are still keen to bring the England striker home but hopes of doing a swap deal involving mercurial midfielder Hatem Ben Arfa this summer are set to be dashed.

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is an admirer of the gifted French international but Ben Arfa’s injury problems means that the Anfield club won’t take a chance on his fitness at this stage.

Toon owner Mike Ashley banked £35m from the sale of Carroll in January 2011 but is looking for a cut-price deal, ideally involving a part-exchange. But with the injury-prone Ben Arfa sidelined long term with a hamstring problem, Liverpool have put their interest in the former Marseilles man on hold.

Newcastle bought five French stars in January for the sort of cash Liverpool want for Carroll and could now go back to France for St Etienne striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

That would leave the door open for West Ham to try and find the cash to make Carroll’s stay at Upton Park permanent.

But Ben Arfa will be going nowhere in a hurry any time soon as he was banned from driving for 49 days and fined £5,100 last week for overtaking a police car at 110mph in a Mercedes which also had no insurance.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

17 million for Andy Carroll? There is no way they'll pay that ...