Andy Carroll signed for the Hammers permanently in June 2013 for an initial fee £15.75m which has since risen to £16.25m, He has earned £5.75m wages through his generous £85,000 per week contract. He managed just 1,077 minutes on the pitch last season and none this season via 15 appearances. 9 of those matches he was either substituted on or off leaving just six full 90 minute games last season.
His two goal tally since signing permanently has cost £11 million per goal and work out a goal on average every 538 minutes of play. His 1,077 minutes have cost West Ham £20,427 per minute played so far.
Diafro Sakho signed for West Ham in August this year for an initial fee of £3.5m earning just £15,000 per week. He has made just five appearances so far this season, three as a substitute and two full 90 minutes totalling 268 minutes on the pitch.
Even at this early stage of his Hammers career he is cheaper than Andy Carroll at £13,507 per minute played and each of his five goals work out at £724,000 per goal. This can only improve as the season progresses. The real value is a goal on average every 53 minutes, an impressive statistic if he can keep that up.
When it comes to a return on investment there can be only one winner!
Come on now it’s not the big man’s fault he’s been injured.I grant you Sakho has been a fantastic buy,but as you say early days.It is hardly a fair comparison,an injury does not mean your a bad player.Besides that he has been used as a link up man between him and the midfield,he was always marked by two players as teams knew who the ball was going to be hit too.West Ham fans aren’t mugs and when he was due to go the song sung was ” w e want you to stay”.Stats are useful,but also misleading,like Trevor Brooking is our best manager,due to his win success rate. C.O.Y.I.
A goal every 538 minutes has got nothing to do with his injury though. He should of scored more in those 1077 minutes last season and his injuries can’t be used as an excuse. The player has been an expensive flop and it is difficult to see how we will ever yet our return on investment. It is more like damage limitation now.