Andy Carroll: 'I've lost respect for Brendan Rodgers'

By Paul Gorst, Reporter | 31 January 2015

West Ham United striker Andy Carroll reveals his disappointment with how Brendan Rodgers handled his transfer to the Hammers from Liverpool in 2012.

West Ham United striker Andy Carroll has claimed that he "lost respect" for Brendan Rodgers for the way the Liverpool manager handled the striker's transfer.

Rodgers sent the England international on loan to the Hammers upon his arrival back in 2012 before Carroll eventually made the move permanent for around £15m a year later, and the West Ham man was disappointed with his ex-manager's conduct.

He told The Times: "With Brendan Rodgers, there was a lot going on. What he was saying to me and what was actually happening [were different things]. He was telling me one thing to my face, then I'd leave the training ground and he would ring me and tell me a completely different thing.

"I was angry. I knew it was time to go. I thought I just want to play football. I didn't need this. Under Brendan I knew I was never going to play, with what he was saying to me.

"If he had said straight away I wasn't going to play, I'd have said: 'fair enough, you're a new manager, it's your decision. You didn't sign me, fair enough'. I lost respect for him."

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