The Hammers are, indeed, so desperate to cut the former Bafana striker from their wage bill that, according to the English newspaper Daily Telegraph, they offered the 33 year-old £1 million to rip up his contract.
“I don’t want to comment on that, it’s between the player and the club,” McCarthy’s agent, Rob Moore, told IOL today.
McCarthy has played just 14 times for West Ham since signing in January 2010, and has not scored a single goal, troubled by injury and weight problems.
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“Benni McCarthy is nearly as fat as me,” West Ham chairman David Sullivan said in May of last year, according to the Daily Mail.
McCarthy has got in far better shape since the start of the new season, though he was also fined £80 000 by West Ham in September for failing to meet certain deadlines they gave him about shedding the pounds.
Keen to secure a move away from Upton Park, South Africa’s leading all-time international goalscorer had trials at Championship side Queens Park Rangers in London in January. And he impressed QPR coach Neil Warnock, though the move ultimately failed to materialise.
“He did alright and looked fit, so those fat boy stories are untrue,” said Warnock at the time, according to kickoff.com.
“At the end of the day they (QPR) had other targets before Benni became available and they were quite far down the line when the whole situation with Benni arose,” said Moore yesterday.
McCarthy remains eligible for West Ham in the FA Cup this season, but is also still looking at getting an emergency loan to another club outside the transfer window.
“We’re looking at a few possibilities and we’ll see how it goes,” said Moore.
Source - http://news24.co.za
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