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Former Liverpool forward Andy Carroll in action for Dagenham & Redbridge(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\nAndy Carroll’s time at Liverpool didn’t prove be a success – now he is playing his football down in non-leagueFormer Liverpool forward Andy Carroll in action for Dagenham & Redbridge(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Former Liverpool <\/a>record signing Andy Carroll endured a nightmare start to life at Dagenham & Redbridge after his new club lost 5-1 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The 36-year-old signed for the National League South side on Saturday<\/a> and made his debut against League Two outfit Crawley Town in a pre-season fixture three days later. However, Carroll was unable to prevent the Daggers from falling to a crushing defeat.<\/p>\n Carroll came on as a substitute around the hour mark when his team were 2-1 down thanks to goals from Harry McKirdy and Harry Forster. However, matters got worse for Dagenham, as a Trialist scored a brace and Reece Brown netted the other for Crawley.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Liverpool PSR position explained as Alexander Isak transfer considered amid Hugo Ekitike interest<\/a>READ MORE: Liverpool could repeat move Jurgen Klopp called ‘insane’ and unlock next phase of Arne Slot plan<\/a><\/p>\n It marked a second loss in three for Dagenham at the start of pre-season. They began with a 3-0 defeat at the hands of seventh-tier side Aveley on Friday, July 4 but soon after recorded a 1-0 win at Sittingbourne, who play in the eighth-tier of English football.<\/p>\n Ex-Liverpool<\/a> ace Carroll made the move to Dagenham on a free transfer, following his departure from Bordeaux in France. He has signed a three-year contract in east London.<\/p>\n Speaking to Sky Sports after he was confirmed as a new Dagenham player, Carroll said: “It doesn’t matter the level, or anything, as long as I get on the pitch and play football, that’s all that matters.<\/p>\n “Coming here and showing people I am just playing for the love of football rather than the money and the level is something I wanted to do. This is something which could be fantastic.<\/p>\n “We have a project to get them out of non-league and back up the leagues.”<\/p>\n Carroll, who started his career at Newcastle United, joined Liverpool<\/a> in January 2011 for \u00a335million after Fernando Torres left for Chelsea. However, the Gateshead-born forward struggled at Anfield<\/a>. In fact, he scored just 11 times in 58 appearances for the Reds before moving to West Ham in August 2012.<\/p>\n His time at the Hammers was a lot more successful, even if he didn’t score as many as he would have wanted, and often struggled to keep fit for a sustained amount of time. Carroll ended up spending six years at West Ham, finding the net on 34 occasions in 142 matches.<\/p>\n The former England international returned to Newcastle for a brief spell under Steve Bruce before then moving to Reading twice, either side of a disappointing spell at West Brom.<\/p>\n Last season, Carroll enjoyed a fruitful stint at fourth-tier French side Bordeaux and scored 11 times in 23 matches for them. However, he announced his departure last month to be closer to home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Carroll’s time at Liverpool didn’t prove be a success – now he is playing his football down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2419,59,134,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andy-carroll","tag-gb","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}