Andy Carroll’s chances of making a comeback against Liverpool this weekend has been dismissed by Slaven Bilic.
It would have been be a major shock had Carroll featured in Bilic’s matchday plans – but speculation has mounted all week that West Ham’s striker crisis could lead to the England frontman receiving as SOS.
But the club have moved quickly to quash any rumours.
A club insider told ClaretandHugh this morning: “That has to be unlikely even in the current circumstances where we only have one striker – Diafra Sakho – 50 per cent likely to make it.”
The Daily Mail had claimed the striker had shown significant progress and that he could be thrown into action from the start against his former club.
Bilic – questioned on Carroll’s fitness at this morning’s press conference – is reported on www.whufc.com saying: “Andy Carroll was back in training with us this week and felt good. Today he will do the whole session and he is improving. He is injury free and it is just a matter of fitness now to get him back.
“Before he joined us he had a minor setback but this week he is partly training with us and then if everything goes well over the international break he should participate in the game against Newcastle.” (September 14).”
Carroll has been out since February when he suffered a serious injury in the match at Southampton. Since the summer, he has been training on his own in a bid to get back up to full fitness by the end of August.
We can cope for one week lets not give any reason for him to have another six months off,
I hope Magia Joins Nolan in the next 2 days and if we can’t get a Forward in the Lee plays up front or anothe player Kouyate or Collins could make it awkward for any defender,