Andy Carroll has had more than enough of the jokers who are ready to rip into him with cheap shots over his shocking injury record.
The big fella looks set to start tomorrow at Fulham with Marko Arnautovic missing with injury and Lucas Perez possibly ruled out.
Carroll is a man on a mission to win a new deal and remaining fit is the key and he can only be helped in that by the snipers who love to take a pop whenever they have the opportunity.
He’s been missing for three months this season which many would see as a cause for sympathy but there are too many in Carroll’s world who want to have far too much fun at his expense.
It is the sort of revelation from AC that gives Credence to the story in CandH recently where we reported that he may choose to move away to America to play his football.
But he makes it clear that he wants to stay at West Ham for another couple of years whilst accepting that he’s in no position to pick and choose.
Speaking to the Daily Mail he said: “It’s stupid things, like I went to Lapland UK. I’m standing there with the kids. Someone skates over, ‘Lovely to meet you… don’t be getting on the ice, I don’t want you falling over and getting injured’. Everywhere I go it’s the same b*******.’
‘A lot of people just think, “Oh, Andy’s injured again? He’s all right, he’s on holiday,” or whatever,’ But it’s hard. It’s hard graft. You’re going home angry, upset, having a go at the missus for nothing, having a go at everyone. You’re just upset. It’s hard to be by yourself.
‘It was very tough. You can see the lads playing outside. You’re in the gym and all you want to do is get outside. I’m down. Down in the dumps I’m not out there.’
‘I’d like to stay,’ says Carroll, whose current £90,000-a-week deal expires at the end of this season. ‘I’ve got a two-year option, it’s the club’s option. I’ve been injured, so it’s not one of those where I can just pick up the phone and say, ‘Give me a two-year deal’. I’ve got to prove it. That’s what I need to do.
He is impressed with Manuel Pellegrini saying: ‘He is a nice fella, a gentleman. He conducts himself well. He’s ruthless. Bang, you’ve done well, but then he won’t play you the next game. You’ve got to respect him. He’ll tell us how it is, and that’s it. His door is always open.’
‘It’s all about working hard and showing the gaffer I can play. I’ve been out a long time. The gaffer knows I’m not fully fit, I know I’m not fully fit. I’d say I’m about 75 per cent.’
‘I can sit here and talk about new deals, but it ain’t going to change anything until I get on that pitch and do what I do.’
Hot Air from Carroll, instead of whining to the media, in some papers Moyes gets it! he needs to sort himself out once and for all Off The Pitch! with his own problems.
No way should there any talk of new contracts, wonder how many clubs will come in for him then at the end of the season?? don’t hold your breath Carroll.
Who’da thought it? Santas a Hammer. COYI.