Andy Carroll

Transfer news: Andy Carroll looks set to leave Merseyside

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew is still hopeful of bringing Liverpool striker Andy Carroll back to Tyneside, despite interest from West Ham.

Reds boss Brendan Rodgers has intimated that the Merseyside club’s record signing is not in his plans for the coming season and is available for loan.

“That whole process is a little bit more involved with the chairman and the board at Liverpool,” Pardew told Newcastle’s Evening Chronicle.

“We have got a great team here, a great squad, and if Andy Carroll comes it will only add to us.

“It’s been said that he’s available and if we are involved, then we will be involved because of the figures, not anything else, because we know he’s good enough.”