West Ham United allowed the Frenchman to join Marseille last month.
Speaking live on Sky Sports‘ Premier League Daily at 11:16 am on February 7th, former Hammers centre-back Tony Gale explained how Andy Carroll will benefit from the fact that Dimitri Payet has now left the club, and the inclusion in the team of Robert Snodgrass and Sofiane Feghouli.
The former Newcastle United and Liverpool hitman has been in devastating form of late, with four goals in his last four Premier League outings for Slaven Bilic’s men.
West Ham United’s Andy Carroll celebrates
And Gale, who made 368 appearances for the Hammers, during a spell with the club that lasted more than a decade, told Sky Sports how West Ham fans should be excited about the prospect of how much better Carroll could become, now that Payet has left for pastures new:
West Ham United’s Andy Carroll celebrates
“Andy Carroll is now firing on all cylinders. He was hanging about, waiting for things to come in from Payet. Now he’s got Feghouli on one side, Snodgrass on the other, and he’s even going to get little passes into him, like when he scored the goal [against Southampton].”
Snodgrass shares joke about Andy Carroll
The East Londoners now sit in ninth position in the Premier League table, and if Carroll can continue to show the form that has earned him such high praise of late, there will no reason why they cannot make a sustained push to replicate last season’s seventh placed finish, and in turn, qualify for the Europa League.
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