West Ham 'are considering offering injury-cursed Andy Carroll a new contract' despite the striker completing just one full match this season.
Carroll, 30, is about to come to the end of a six-year contract and the expectation was that the Hammers would cut him loose.
After all, Carroll has reportedly cost them £6million this year alone in wages and medical bills while playing a mere 568 minutes of football.
But, according to The Sun, West Ham are considering offering Carroll a new deal amid sympathy for his plight, albeit one that would be heavily incentivised for appearances and goals.
A West Ham source told the paper: 'There's an argument for it. Any deal would be structured completely differently to the current one.
'A minimal basic salary plus heavily incentivised payments in return for starts and goals and things like that. That would put the onus on him to be fit and ready.'
Carroll, who earns around £100,000-a-week at the London Stadium, started just three Premier League matches this season and completed just one - the 1-0 defeat at Manchester City in late February.
He managed a run of appearances in the middle of the season inbetween two lay-offs for ankle surgery.
But his only goal of the campaign came against Championship side Birmingham City in the third round of the FA Cup back in January.
Carroll is determined to be back to full fitness for the start of next season and is ready to embark on a gruelling training regime away from England this summer.
As revealed by Sportsmail earlier this week, he is considering the United States or the United Arab Emirates as destinations for a summer rehab camp has he returns from ankle surgery.
Carroll has scored 34 goals in 142 games for West Ham since arriving from Liverpool, initially on loan, in August 2012.