With hope in your heart: Liverpool set to offer Andy Carroll another chance at an Anfield career
With hope in your heart: Liverpool set to offer Andy Carroll another chance at an Anfield career
The big striker will have to accept a role as Rodgers'
impact sub after not doing enough on loan at West Ham to convince them
to buy him
Tall order: Target-man Carroll faces life as a sub at Liverpool
Andrew Powell
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is ready to offer Andy Carroll a way back in at Anfield - as a squad member.
The
England striker, currently on a season-long loan at West Ham, must
accept he will be used as an impact player from the bench if he wants to
re-ignite his career at the Anfield club he joined for £35million in January 2011.
The
Mirror understands that talks will take place between manager and
player in the coming weeks with a view to thrashing out a compromise if
the Hammers confirm they intend to send Carroll back to Merseyside
without making an offer for his permanent signature. Click here to read our Steve Stammers on why buy Carroll should be the Irons' priority this summer.
The big Geordie, who scored twice at the weekend as West Ham beat West Brom
but has only five goals in 21 appearances this season, will be told
there can be no sulking or disrupting the squad - only a will to work
hard and earn a starting place.
If Carroll agrees to such
conditions, he will be welcomed back for pre-season training - and
special work designed to increase his mobility and adapt him to the
demands of Rodgers' high-energy passing game. Happy Hammer: Carroll's all smiles on Saturday after his best West Ham game
Steve Bardens
The Reds manager has always insisted that Carroll's
traditional-centre-forward style does not suit the system he has
introduced, suggesting that he will be sold at the end of his year in
east London.
But the 24-year-old has been so dogged by injuries,
and the resulting loss of form, during the current campaign that it no
longer seems likely interested clubs would be prepared to go anywhere
near the original asking price of £18m.
It is a situation that
Rodgers has been forced to address in recent weeks, and he is ready to
offer Carroll an unlikely Anfield lifeline. ---------- Mirror Football
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