No retreat from DS on Carroll fiasco

David Sullivan is clearly still smarting from the incorrect diagnosis produced by “our medical people” when signing Andy Carroll.

And he is not retreating from his position that if he had known then what he knows now he would never have signed Andy Carroll.

The West Ham co-chairman has been producing some very straightforward talking over the past 24 hours on a variety of issues.

And talking to ClaretandHugh tonight he said: “When we bought him we were assured by our medical people that he’d be fit to play by September 1 by the very worst and that turned out to be wrong by months.

“I’ve said before that if we had known then what we know now we would not have bought him.

“He’s a fantastic player who I greatly admire, but had we known the extent of his initial injury we would not have bought him.