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Carroll’s West Ham career looks over after Pellegrini remarks

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West Ham United striker Andy Carroll has mere months left on his contract with the club, but after manager Manuel Pellegrini’s post-Cardiff City remarks on Saturday, it definitely looks as if his Hammers career is over.

The England international wasn’t even in the match day squad for his team’s 2-0 defeat to Neil Warnock’s side, and Pellegrini refused to come up with an excuse for his absence after the game.

“He was not considered for this game,” he said at his pre match press conference, as per Football London [17:32]. That is about as black and white as it gets coming from a manager, folks.

Clearly this was not a fitness issue, this was merely a case of Pellegrini not feeling that Carroll was worthy of a place in his squad. After the dire performances of Javier Hernandez and Marko Arnautovic, you have to ask yourself: just how bad is Carroll?

For the veteran striker to not even be worthy of a place on the bench says it all really. If Pellegrini had any appetite for the former Liverpool man moving forward he would have been involved in some capacity.

He wasn’t, though, and Pellegrini wasn’t prepared to gloss over that fact. He didn’t even consider Carroll, that is as damning as it gets. The Hammers have largely struggled for production from their frontmen this term, yet the Geordie giant still doesn’t get a sniff.

This is a game that really suited Carroll, as well. Hernandez was rendered largely ineffectual due to the physicality of the Cardiff backline. Carroll would have negated that, so for him to not even make the bench is extremely concerning.

It’s likely that he would have departed the London Stadium when his contract expires at the end of the season anyway, but it appears that any hope of Carroll turning his Hammers career around has now been firmly extinguished.

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