West Ham United look for specialist help to treat injured Andy Carroll

Andy Carroll celebrates his goal against Southampton

According to BBC, West Ham United are looking to seek specialist help to treat striker Andy Carroll, who has sustained another heel injury in training.

Carroll, who made a £15m move to West Ham from Liverpool is yet to feature in a Premier League game this season after picking up a heel injury towards the end of last year’s campaign.

Hammers boss Sam Allardyce said: “According to the specialist the chance of a recurrence of that type of injury is about 4% but unfortunately for Andy he was one of the unlucky ones.

“We had been very cautious, very patient with him along the way and it’s sad this has happened for him as well as us.

“He doesn’t need an operation but we need to give the foot time to re-heal, continue the rehab and get him back in training again.”