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West Ham set to offer Carroll new contract

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West Ham are set for a ‘shock’ u-turn and are ready to hand Andy Carroll a new deal, according to the Sun. 

The report claims that with just a few weeks left on his contract and having only played one full game this season, the club have started early discussions over a new contract for Carroll, but likely on very different terms.

They quoted a club source as saying, “There’s an argument for it. Any deal would be structured completely differently to the current one.

“A minimal basic salary plus heavily incentivised payments in return for starts and goals and things like that. That would put the onus on him to be fit and ready.”

Carroll is on £100k-a-week at the moment and scored only one goal in the FA Cup this season.

OPINION

Well, this is unexpected. After the season he’s had and all his injury issues, we fully expected Carroll to be leaving West Ham in the summer as a free agent. It sounds like he was expecting to be on the lookout for a new club, too, and this would be a major lifeline for a player who fans have grown increasingly frustrated with. In six years he’s played 142 games at a rate of just over 23 games a season. He’s scored 34 goals – around six a season – a terrible return for a player who’s banking over £5million a year in wages. That’s close to £1million per goal in the time that he’s been in east London. We suppose that if a pay-per-play deal can be worked out then West Ham might take the risk out of the player staying and possibly salvage something from the situation but we don’t think fans will be too impressed about keeping hold of a player who injured himself this season putting his trainers on at home. 

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