Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Thursday September 26, 2024 at 11:58 a.m.
Decisive from his debut with Bordeaux in National 2, Andy Carroll (35 years old), who would receive around 3,500 euros per month, plays for pleasure. “It’s not a question of money,” confides the English striker.
His arrival in Amiens last year was already surprising. But not as much as his signing in Bordeaux, demoted to National 2 due to his financial problems. At 35, Andy Carroll, who has 9 caps with the Three Lions, for 2 goals, has therefore gone down two levels to help the Girondins. With much lower emoluments than those he could receive in the Premier League and in particular at Liverpool, who had paid more than 40 million euros to poach him from Newcastle, since we are talking about a monthly salary of around 3 500 euros, while he received more than 95,000 euros per week when he played for the Reds. And from his debut with the club on the scapular, he played the saviors, scoring a double to allow the team coached by Bruno Irles to secure a draw against Châteaubriant (2-2).
“It was never about the money”
But why did Andy Carroll decide to take on this challenge? “It’s quite simply because I love football,” he confides in an interview with RMC. “To be honest, it even cost me money to go and play for the Girondins. But I play football and I’m just happy to play football I want to be part of the history of this club and to be honest it’s not a question of money. In my career, it’s never been a question of. ‘money.” And the 1.93m striker with the eternal ponytail hopes to help his new club get back on track as quickly as possible. “It’s sad to see a club in difficulty, continues the Newcastle native. It’s regrettable but we just have to get involved to get the club back to where it needs to be. We have to fight as best we can. We has a great team, a great manager, a great staff and I hope we will improve in the next two years.”
