The West Ham striker is dismayed with how he was treated by the Reds boss.
West Ham United target man Andy Carroll has expressed his dismay at how Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers treated him during his spell at Anfield, according to the Daily Mirror.
Carroll completed a big-money move to Liverpool from Newcastle four years ago today (and such is fate that he returned to Anfield earlier today with West Ham), operating with relative success under Kenny Dalglish.
When Rodgers took over, however, the big striker was soon out of favour, eventually being sold to the Hammers.
But the 26-year-old says he has no issue with not being a favourite under the Northern Irishman. Instead, he is unhappy with how Rodgers treated him at the time – sending him mixed messages during his Liverpool stay.
“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,” Carroll is quoted by the Mirror as telling the Times.
“He would say: ‘You’re going to play every week, you’re going to play every game up front with [Luis] Suarez. I’d leave and get home and he would ring me and say: ‘Fulham and West Ham want you and I think it’s best you should go.’
“It was mixed messages. He was messing with my head. I lost respect for him to be honest.”
Before today’s Anfield clash between Liverpool and West Ham, Carroll had scored five Premier League goals for the Hammers, making him the east London side’s second-top scorer of the season so far.
The achievement is an impressive one considering the 26-year-old’s injury troubles this term – and Sam Allardyce has wasted no time in making Carroll the focal point of West Ham’s play.
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