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Could Andy Carroll actually be worth a punt?


Could Andy Carroll Actually Be Worth A Punt?

Andy-Carroll

Vincent Janssen is available for £12 million this month as he has no future under Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs. It is thought he simply didn't train hard enough for Pochettino which probably means that mentally he gave up.

Injuries have played their part. He went on loan to Istanbul-based Turkish side Fenerbahçe and broke his ankle on 8 Dex 2017 until 9 April 2018. He then had a foot injury from 1 July 2018 until 1 December 2018.

That's a total of 305 days injured and he has only just returned in the last few U-23 games to help him recover some fitness.

His contract runs out in 2020 and I would have thought he could be a good buy form a club who will need a goalscorer playing every week in the second half of the season. He doesn't look or didn't look, as if he could adapt to our style and still be a goal threat, particularly as an occasional starter.

The Sun reports that Tottenham might be interested in, they say we are, 30-year-old (31 next January) West Ham United striker Andy Carroll.

Personally, I don't think we are interested in a replacement but that a reporter is putting his belief of need with an idea he has had to come up with a story. That's a polite way of suggesting the story is probably yet another pack of lies.

However, I have been thinking the same thing for a week, wondering who might be available, who it would realistically be possible to bring in. He is an ex-England striker before hitting his wife and injuries abruptly halted a very promising career, a career he has never recovered.

Has he quit the drinking and grown up yet? I don't know, he would have to have done to play under Pochettino.

For the record, he is under contract until 2019 and if I were to list his injuries you'd get frightened, out for 133 days, 99 days, 149 days, 30 days,  since February 2017. It doesn't get any better before that either. In fact, he hasn't had a season where he hasn't been out for 100 or more days (with one injury) since 2012.

With service, I do think he could score goals and would possibly be a better bet than Fernando Llorente. He would certainly give us a presence in the box and he used to have a good ground game as well.

Yes he missed from a few yards at the weekend but Harry Kane has done that several times.


If you are going to gamble on an injury prone player to provide short term cover then at £2m could well be worth a punt.


1 comment

  1. It wouldn't be the first thought that cam to mind TBH, but I guess at £2M it couldn't hurt too much.

    OTOH would this be a good opportunity to blood young Kaziah Stirling? I really don't know enough about how ready he is, and we certainly don't want to spoil his chances longer term by bringing him on before he's ready.

    In short, I really don't know. Times ahead may not be the most fun but they should certainly be interesting. How can the existing players cope in these circumstances? How strong can they show themselves to be? It won't be an easy time for anyone at Spurs, but sometimes testing periods bring out the best in people. We'll see.

    COYS!!