West Ham make £17m bid for Liverpool striker Carroll
Hammers offer to loan the England international with a view to a
permanent switch next summer but the 23-year-old is not keen on a move
to east London
The Hammers have offered to take Carroll on
loan with a view to a permanent deal next summer if the club avoid
relegation in the coming season.
Carroll, 23, is understood to be reluctant to
move to Upton Park and would ideally like to fight for his place at
Liverpool, even though new manager Brendan Rodgers does not consider him
as a regular starter.
The striker would prefer a return to his
former club Newcastle, who remain interested in the England
international after offering to loan him next season with the option of a
£15m transfer next summer.
That bid was rejected by Liverpool,
who want more than £20m for a player who cost £35m when he arrived from
Tyneside in January 2011. The Reds will also refuse to contemplate
subsidising any of Carroll’s £80,000-a-week wages.
West Ham
manager Sam Allardyce has targeted Carroll as he is desperate to land a
striker to lead the line next term following West Ham’s promotion to the
Premier League.
Allardyce shares an agent with Carroll and is
also hopeful that the forward’s good friendship with Hammers captain
Kevin Nolan will work in the Londoners’ favour.
A deal for Carroll would smash West Ham’s
transfer record of £7.5m paid to sign Craig Bellamy in 2007 and much
could depend on talks planned between Rodgers and Carroll.
Rodgers
is believed to be ready to tell Carroll that he will not get regular
playing time at Anfield next season and the Ulsterman would like funds
to reinvest in the squad and aid their challenge for a top-four finish.
Source : Goal.com
