Andy Carroll, 35, reveals plan to keep playing for Bordeaux until he’s 40 – despite LOSING money on £750-a-week salary

ANDY CARROLL wants to support playing until helium hits 40 - and dreams of partnering his eldest lad up front.

The ex-Newcastle, Liverpool and West Ham striker enjoyed a imagination debut for Bordeaux with 2 goals to gain a gully with Chateaubriant.

And contempt years of wounded issues during his clip successful the Premier League, the nine-capped England planetary says helium wants to proceed “another 5 years until I'm 40”.

Carroll, begetter to sons Lucas, 14, Arlo, eight, and Wolf, 5 and 2 daughters, said: “My sons support saying, ‘Oh, you should spell into management’.

But I'll support saying well, ‘hopefully, 1 day, you're aged capable that you tin articulation maine and beryllium my onslaught spouse successful the aforesaid squad playing with each other.

“They are truly bully players. So that's astir apt much my imagination than retiring and doing thing else.”

Carroll continued: “I haven't truly focused connected finishing yet, truthful I can't adjacent deliberation astir what I'm going to bash afterwards.

“I'm conscionable fortunate that I'm inactive playing astatine my property astatine the level wherever I'm enjoying it and getting paid for it.

“I've been astatine the apical level wherever radical are connected £100,000-a-week, and past you travel to France and the lads are connected obscurity adjacent that.

"And they're coming successful each day, moving hard and with a grin connected their face. And we're going home, having barbecues and worldly similar that.

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“It's conscionable a wholly antithetic mode of beingness and it's conscionable brilliant. It's conscionable precisely what I wanted and precisely what I needed successful my life.”

Carroll archetypal fell successful emotion with France aft joining 2nd tier outfit Amiens a twelvemonth ago.

The elephantine 6ft 4in Carroll is present looking to travel successful the footsteps of Zinedine Zidane by firing Bordeaux to glory.

The six-time Ligue 1 winners are successful medication and person conscionable been demoted to the 4th division.

Carroll earns conscionable £750-a-week astatine the fallen giants, meaning it really costs him wealth to unrecorded determination and play for them, but helium is enjoying each second.

He added: “A batch of players, precocious retired oregon nearing the extremity of their careers, person asked wherefore I'm playing present successful France, distant from my family. I'm conscionable enjoying it here.

“Everything - from the stadium to the grooming crushed - is acceptable up perfectly for what I request and want.

“The task going guardant is to effort for back-to-back promotions, to beryllium portion of a monolithic club, and to carve retired my spot successful their history. It's an accidental excessively large to walk up.”