Andy Carroll will be wondering right now why he interrupted his honeymoon. The striker, who a decade ago was one of the great hopes of English football and who has started to go down a surprising slope in recent years, had traveled from Mexico, where he was enjoying a few days with his new wife, to Belgium. with the expectation of being hired by Bruges, but the Flemish club rejected him by virtue of the tests he was subjected to.

According to the British newspaper Daily mail“The results of the physical and mental tests (carried out by Carroll) were deemed insufficient, for which the winning club of the last three editions of the Belgian championship has renounced the services of the 33-year-old forward, who must continue looking for a team to continue his career.

After Newcastle released him in mid-2021, the career of the footballer born in Gateshead (a city located in the north-east of England and separated from Newcastle by the River Tyne) has been a succession of disappointments. He had a hard time finding a destination and was even offered by his Colo-Colo representative, but the Chilean club turned him down.

Only in November did he manage to sign a contract with Reading in the English second division, which he represented in just eight games (he scored two goals). In late January this year, he moved to West Bromwich Albion, also from the Football League. There, too, he didn’t do very well: he played 15 games and scored three goals. At the end of the contest, he was released.

Carroll’s heyday was at the beginning of the last decadewhen he shone in Newcastle and this earned him the call-up in the Three Lions team: he played nine games, including three in the Eurocup Poland-Ukraine 2012, and scored two goals (one of which, against Sweden in the continental tournament ).

His outstanding work at Newcastle also resulted in Liverpool paying £ 35m for his services in January 2011, in a transfer that was a record for British football at the time. But since then the injuries have begun to haunt him and have not allowed him to consolidate even in networks nor to West Ham United, to which it was first loaned, in October 2012, and then permanently, in July 2013.

In fact, since the 2015/16 season he has not been able to play more than 20 games in one season. An ankle injury was also what frustrated a move to Chelsea in January 2018. The London club allegedly paid West Ham United € 22m for him but ended up giving up due to that condition.

Beyond its uneventful sporting gait, Carroll has accumulated centimeters and seconds of media coverage in recent days due to an intimate situation that saw him protagonistthat the British media have exploited with fervor and that many of the rest of the planet have gladly collected.

A few weeks ago a photo was made public in a situation of alleged intimacy with two women. The image was captured during the footballer’s bachelor party in Dubai, prior to his marriage to Billi Mucklow, known for her participation in several reality shows, with whom she has been in a relationship for nearly 10 years and has three children in common.

Despite the scandal they tried to mount around it, the couple got married earlier this month at the Four Seasons hotel in Hampshire and then traveled to Mexico for their honeymoon, the one the striker has. left to negotiate his frustrated arrival in Bruges.