Carson’s future hanging by a thread

Scott Carson’s future is on the balance. Scott Carson’s £9million price-tag has prevented Martin O’Neill from making the young Liverpool goalkeeper’s loan move permanent, and instead deciding to opt for a cheaper alternative instead. In addition, he’s not needed at Anfield.

“We have Scott until the end of the season and when we talked about it in the first place, there was no decision going to be made one way or another until the end of the season,” O’Neill said.

“Now, of course, if someone does very well then there is talk about ‘can you hurry this on?’ or if someone is not doing so cleverly then the talk is ‘well, what are you doing about it?

“That is a natural question for people to ask me - but an unnatural one to answer. I will wait until the end of the season. Liverpool are heavily involved now in competitions so we will wait and then all parties will sit down. Liverpool have not come on the phone asking ‘what are you doing?’ and I have not gone on to them and said ‘what are you thinking?’ We are prepared to leave it.”

“I haven’t really said anything to Scott either way. I speak to his agent pretty regularly about things. He always asks how Scott is doing. Scott will be given that viewpoint - but I am sure he would like to hear it from a manager!”