West Ham table £15 million bid for Liverpool's Andy Carroll

West Ham United have met Liverpool‘s asking price for striker Andy Carroll, with the East London club looking to make the striker’s loan deal permanent.

Despite only netting seven times in a season where his progress has been held back by injury, Carroll has impressed toe backroom staff at Upton Park enough for them to make an offer of £15 million for the former Newcastle United forward.

Carroll has yet to make a decision on his future though, according to BBC Sport, with a World Cup year looming and some interest from his former club still remaining, though Newcastle are believed to be put off by the Reds high asking price.

The Gateshead native arrived at Anfield under former manager Kenny Dalglish in January of 2011 for a club record £35 million but failed to make the desired impact, struggling to find the form in front of goal that had initially made him a target for the Merseyside club.

His luck wasn’t to change with the arrival of Brendan Rodgers, either, with the former Swansea manager not confident that the forward could adapt to his style of short-passing and pressing football, thus allowing Carroll to move on loan to West Ham.

Should the deal go through Liverpool will have made a significant loss on the striker, but the funds will be put towards bolstering the Reds defensive options, with Rodgers believed to be targeting Schalke’s Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Sporting’s Tiago Llori.