‘No comment’ – Andy Carroll linked with shock move to sixth tier of English football

A non-league supervisor remained tight-lipped when requested a few shock swoop for Andy Carroll.

The previous Newcastle and Liverpool striker is a free agent after he departed Bordeaux on the finish of the 2024/25 season so he might be nearer to his household in England.

Experiences quickly emerged linking Carroll to Chelsmford Metropolis, who play within the Nationwide League South, the sixth tier of English soccer.

Nevertheless, when pressed by the Non-League Paper concerning the membership’s suspected pursuit of the nine-time England worldwide, Metropolis boss Angelo Harrop refused to reveal any particulars.

“No remark,” Harrop stated.

“I’m actually pleased with what we have in. We have actual high quality, quite a lot of youth, quite a lot of gamers actually hungry, which is nice. They’re all good ages as nicely.

“We imagine there may be quite a lot of growth in all these gamers we have signed and that is the DNA we’ll go along with. We have some younger gamers who’ve performed quite a lot of video games already.

“My solely fear for us is, we have a model new squad so we have to knit collectively in a short time, and we’re most likely solely going to run with a most of 17 or 18 first staff gamers.

“However Rome wasn’t inbuilt a day. The soccer membership has already made large strides within the final two months. We’re attempting to construct a correct soccer membership that shall be profitable over a few years.”

Metropolis’s mooted swoop for Carroll comes after the membership transitioned into working as a full-time membership this summer season.

In a letter to the membership’s supporters in January, chairman and majority proprietor Spencer Gore famous a ‘have to do issues otherwise’ for the staff to realize soccer league standing.

“Within the membership’s bold pursuit of achieving EFL standing, our board has determined that to present ourselves the most effective probability of success, we must always begin conducting the formal evaluation of what it could take to function as a full-time soccer membership,” Gore stated.

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Gore added: “This modification will clearly require a big enhance within the membership’s funds, which each Dan (Watkins, co-owner) and I are prepared to assist if we determine that it’s the proper time to take this important step.”

Metropolis completed eleventh out of 24 groups within the Nationwide League South final time period with 62 factors, 17 exterior of the play-off positions.

However the potential arrival of Carroll would little question give them a significant increase of their promotion hopes for the approaching season.

Carroll bagged 11 objectives in 23 appearances throughout all competitions final time period for Bordeaux, who performed within the fourth tier of French soccer having been relegated as a consequence of monetary difficulties.

Though he was on a wage of simply €1614 per-month at Bordeaux, Carroll was lured by the ‘nice undertaking’ on supply and the ‘alternative to play for an enormous French membership’.

But Carroll’s journey in Bordeaux lasted one season, because the membership thanked him for ‘his expertise, bodily influence and professionalism to his function every day’.

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“Off the pitch, he’s an distinctive and beneficiant character that the Membership’s followers and workers have loved working alongside,” an announcement from Bordeaux added.

Ought to Carroll return to English soccer, it could be his first enjoying stint on residence soil in almost two years.

The towering striker has loved a storied profession in England, scoring 54 Premier League objectives in 248 appearances with Newcastle, Liverpool and West Ham.

Spells at West Bromwich Albion and Studying adopted earlier than he moved to French aspect Amiens in September 2023.

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