West Ham boss David Moyes look certain to leave Andy Carroll out of the squad for Saturday’s match against Leicester City unless he receives the apology he believes he’s due at training today.
After being sent home following his Manchester City activity on Sunday, he and the rest of the senioe squad were on day off yesterday but will is expected back today.
Moyes has a big decision to take with most inside the club looking for the pair to find a solution rather than the sort of scenario we saw involving Diafra Sakho before his departure in December.
They believe that Carroll’s ability to make a goal scoring impact from the bench is of vital importance as the team heads into the final three games particularly at Leicester -from a game from which we truly have to take something.
The Hammers boss will get a boost with Pedro Obiang is set to rejoin the squad for the game after making a quicker than expected recovery from a knee injury against Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup in January.
How much action he will see is clearly dubious but any return by the defensive midfielder for the final three games will be more than welcome as he he has been sorely missed as a defensive midfielder.
James Collins too finally looks ready to return from his hamstring injury which could release ionto a midfield role against the Foxes.
Yeah tbh it is the same every season with injuries. You look back & say we could have had another 10pts if we had half the injuries. We blamed the 2003 drop on injuries (with a fair bit of Glen Roeder mixed in). This year we seem to have had fewer but more really long term ones. I gave up looking at that physioroom site because we always seem to be top of it. I know all fans probably think their teams are plagued by injury, but people on here have been saying for years that we need to look for underlying causes. There was the training ground theory etc etc. Maybe part of the answer in recent years has been the lack of depth in the squad. Maybe ….But whether we compare badly on that I don’t know.