Bilic confident West Ham’s Carroll is going nowhere

West Ham United boss Slaven Bilic insists that the club have no intention of selling striker Andy Carroll one of the super-rich Chinese sides, or anywhere else.

Reports have suggested that clubs in the Far East have an interest in the former England international, who has scored six goals in 12 appearances so far this season.

But Bilic is confident that the striker, who is expected to be fit to face Chelsea on Monday, will not be affected by the increased transfer speculation.

“Andy knows how much we and I rate him. He is one of our best players and we want to keep him,” Bilic explained.

“As far as I know, the Chinese clubs sent representatives to watch our game. Apparently they were watching other players but fell in love with Andy.

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“It’s certainly not the Club that has asked an agent to try and sell him. That’s not the case. We haven’t been bombed with offers from China, so it hasn’t affected me or Andy.

“I suppose Andy would have been flattered as it’s nice that people have a good opinion of you, but me and him didn’t talk about it at all.

“It wasn’t like we had three or four offers for our players from China. I heard the rumours and saw it in the papers but it didn’t affect any relationships with the players or with Andy.”