COMMENTARY
The Sun reported on Friday that West Ham were considering offering attacker Andy Carroll a new contract and it went down rather well with a number of Hammers supporters. The national newspaper claimed that there was a chance the forward’s future could still be at the London Stadium despite the player’s current contract being only weeks away from becoming a free agent. Up until this report, it sounded as if Carroll was on his way out of the club as there hadn’t been many positive reports that the Hammers wanted to keep him. Yet it seems the London club are open to the idea of keeping the attacker despite his terrible injury record. The Sun’s report states that Carroll has cost the Hammers £6million this year in wages and other costs alone, and all they had got in return from him was one goal. Despite these damning stats, it seems many West Ham were thrilled over the thought of Carroll staying, especially as the source in The Sun’s report hinted the that any new deal for the player would basically be a pay as you play as he’d only get a basic salary.
This Is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
https://twitter.com/yorkyhammer/status/1129328159944597505
Pay as you play 100%. Don’t think he is a bad player when he plays regularly would 100% have him up top every week
— Ports (@ryan_porter69) May 17, 2019
Im running round town naked with the tought of it
— Ivan Murphy (@ivanmurphy1970) May 17, 2019
Makes perfect sense to me also – A great player to throw on last 15 mins one down in a cup tie ??
— Dale (@drobe10) May 17, 2019
I think Andy Carroll is an absolute handful when fit and if he was on small basic wages with bonuses for appearances and goals I’d be happy if he stayed.
— Lee Sifford ? (@lee_sifford) May 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/russelthehammer/status/1129294505780420609
He’s a better option to have Noon than option at all. He’s earned his money, by that I mean he’s well set for life. He’ll only get that kind of deal elsewhere so he might as well stay here.
— Eugene Gaughan (@eugene_gaughan) May 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/westhamangel1/status/1129281668462911488