Andy Carroll has claimed he never “really got a chance” at Liverpoolfollowing his £35 million move in January 2011.
In his first major newspaper interview, the 25-year-old striker, who will line up for West Ham United on Sunday against his former club, also toldThe Sunday Telegraph that he joined a divided dressing room at Anfield, making his time there more difficult.
“I just feel that when I did go I never really got a chance,” he said. “I came out of a dressing room at Newcastle where everyone was close, everyone, like here at West Ham, and then to go into that dressing room, at that time, when it was the opposite.
“I was disappointed with the way it [his Liverpool career] went, but I don’t feel I was given a real go at it. I was in one game, out three games, back in for one, so it was stop-start constantly and I never really got going.
“Obviously I never really knew my place when Kenny Dalglish got sacked and coming back, I thought I’d had a good season, I ended the season with a few goals and was told by [Dalglish’s successor] Brendan Rodgers that me and Luis Suárez could be the partnership up front. And then I was told: 'Ah, you’d better leave’ so I didn’t know whether I was coming or going.”
Much has changed at Liverpool since Carroll left, initially on a season-long loan. The forward admits he hopes Rodgers’ side go on to win thePremier League, but has warned them to expect a tough task trying to contain him in the game at Upton Park on Sunday.
“I think they should be worried. I’m looking forward to it. Looking forward to that whistle going. On the form that they are I can’t wait to try and get a result against them.”
Carroll said he still hoped to win a place in England’s World Cup squad. “I’ve not put it out of my head,” he said. “That’s what I am aiming for. I need to carry on doing what I am doing and put myself about and show what I can do: score goals and create chances and hopefully fingers crossed the England manager sees that.”
Hodgson’s striking options might have shrunk on Saturday whenSouthampton striker Jay Rodriguez left the field on a stretcher after sustaining a serious-looking knee injury in a heavy fall in his side’s 4-1 defeat at Manchester City.
Rodriguez required lengthy treatment on the pitch and Southampton manager Mauricio Pochettino said: “It is not looking good.”
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