Liverpool Transfer News: Andy Carroll Going Out On Loan?

"I'm not going to sit here and say I will never let anyone go on loan, then come in here in two weeks and a player's gone, and you're saying 'you said you wouldn't let them go'. "There are many things to going on loan. Is it going to be beneficial for the club, that's the most important thing? "Sometimes a player going out on loan - in general, not just Andy - can benefit the club in the long term. "It gets them game experience, and they come back a better player, a more confident one. Certainly more so than if they've been sitting on the bench for the majority of the season. "Andy's always going to be linked with clubs, whether he was here or not. I have spoken to him on his holidays, he knows exactly where he stands, but I have had no inquiries about him."

Reading between the lines, these are comments that a manager simply wouldn't make about a player he had big plans for next season. From the sounds of things, Rodgers doesn't fancy Carroll in his squad next season and perhaps the Liverpool board would be happy to see him go out on loan next season for a decent loan fee (several million) and another club paying his wages, which would allow Carroll to develop as a footballer and so Rodgers can bring in the targets he has for next season's campaign. It is unlikely that Liverpool would loan Carroll out to another Premier League club but a loan move to AC Milan is looking increasingly like a possibility.