In an interestingly timed article on whufc.com, West Ham appear to be creating a potential smokescreen for Andy Carroll's imminent departure. On Tuesday, Sports Direct News revealed, with quotes from an Upton Park source, that the feeling within the club was that the England striker had not done enough during his time at the Boleyn Ground this season to justify a £17 million outlay on him, in addition to reported wages of £84,000 a week.
The story was rehashed by the Sun and numerous other newspapers on Wednesday morning and at the time of writing, surely every West Ham fan living in civilised society and with access to the internet and/or a newspaper must have read this story and know that in all probability, the big striker will be leaving the Irons at the end of this season.
Never to be dissuaded from blustering propaganda, the club have launched a valiant PR campaign in order to put the claret and blue blinkers back on supporters' eyes- through a "yay we all love Andy"-type article on the official website. Under the headline "Andy eager to please," the hastily-written piece gushes praise for Carroll.
"..while he is undoubtedly superb at all three of those disciplines.. showing characteristic humility in summing up his attributes.. he takes just as much satisfaction from setting up goals as he does from scoring them..."
Etc etc. Obviously nothing's confirmed yet; well, nothing that the club see fit to tell us fans about, but there's no smoke without fire and all that. Even if Andy Carroll were the finest, most on-fire, in-form centre forward to ever wear the claret and blue, West Ham United simply cannot afford to pay what would eventually add up to more than £30 million on one player- and the club know that.
This desperate lunge of a PR campaign to stops the fans from seeing what is the blindingly obvious truth; that Carroll is heading back to Liverpool at the end of the campaign, will do well to fool even the most deluded Hammer. He's off and we all know it. And it's fine- the bloke's only scored 3 goals in 15 appearances and just isn't good value; and even if he were, we are not yet in a position to be signing £17 million strikers. Still, the article gave us all a good laugh. Happy Thursday!
By Alex Shilling, News Editor
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