{"id":201560,"date":"2025-06-21T03:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201560\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T03:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:48:14","slug":"andy-carroll-former-liverpool-striker-leaves-french-club-bordeaux-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201560\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Carroll: Former Liverpool striker leaves French club Bordeaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former England and Liverpool striker Andy Carroll has left Bordeaux after one season in the French fourth tier.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bordeaux said Carroll took the decision to leave in order &#8220;to be closer to his children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5y3xze0jw2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined Bordeaux from Ligue 2 side Amiens<\/a> last September and scored 11 goals in 21 league games for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Beyond the statistics, Andy brought his experience, physical impact and professionalism to the table every day, in the dressing room and in important games,&#8221; the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Off the pitch, he is an exceptional and generous personality that the club&#8217;s fans and employees have enjoyed working with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bordeaux, six-time Ligue 1 champions, surrendered their professional status after being relegated from Ligue 2 to Championnat National 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy802j03xvyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">because of bankruptcy last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carroll scored 54 goals in 248 Premier League games during spells with Newcastle United, Liverpool and West Ham United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then went on to play for Reading and West Bromwich Albion before moving to France with second-tier side Amiens in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England and Liverpool striker Andy Carroll has left Bordeaux after one season in the French fourth tier.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-201560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114719313629695759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}