Hammers want £100,000-a-week star
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ronaldos been doing well in brazil from what ive read. one last shot at the big time might just tempt him, and only if the price was right, ie sullivans outrageous wage offer. this man clearly has more cah than sense, did you see the jacket he wore to the press conference to announce the buyout??!
i dont think chamakh will go westham when teams like arsenal and liverpool are intrested.
How can you come out and say the club has 100m debt and then sign a player on 100k a week? I do not see how they can be getting away with that. There debt is probably so high after the last spending spree trying to keep them up.
I have always loved West Ham and hope they do stay up but i don't think they should be allowed to sign players on funny money when there debt is so huge.
I have always loved West Ham and hope they do stay up but i don't think they should be allowed to sign players on funny money when there debt is so huge.
whos going to stop them though? no-one has stopped united from signing anyone, and their debt is 7-10x larger than west hams depending on where you read about it.
the only reason pompey have been stopped from signing players is becasue they dont have a debt with the banks, they owe other clubs cash.
i dont understand how they can still owe money for lassana diarra and sulley muntari, even though they have long since been sold on for large profits. where did that profit go? staright back to the UAE i reckon.
thats one silky jacket lol XD
Big new stadium in three years time and selling Upton Park for redevelopment I'd imagine.
Should they get the Olympic Stadium, then their medium-term looks very bright to be honest - over the next 18 months a lot of the problems with their cash-flow will disappear (contracts to players run out, they start getting back their full ticket income again). Keeping them afloat in the short-term is the hard part, and I'm guessing Sullivan and Gold are pumping the money in now (much as the Icelandic guys did) to try and keep them in the Premier League til then.
A lot revolves around that new stadium - much as Manchester City's financial woes were eased by them getting the Commonwealth Games' stadium and which made them such an attractive proposition to the sheikhs.
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They are certainly crude workers, they must of had there eye on the Olympic stadium for a while now, must have put a lot of planning into the takeover of West Ham.
Yeah, I posted the thing about the new stadium based on past comments from the Icelandic board - but then I read a piece in the Sunday Times which had something about Karen Brady suggesting renaming the team to 'West Ham Olympic' and going on about how it was a waste for the Olympic stadium to only host a couple of athletic meetings a year after the games. You couldn't make it up...
All the stuff about Sullivan and Gold being these white knights needs to be taken with a pinch of salt by West Ham fans I think. I certainly don't think they've gone into this without an eye on making money out of it in the long-term.
All the stuff about Sullivan and Gold being these white knights needs to be taken with a pinch of salt by West Ham fans I think. I certainly don't think they've gone into this without an eye on making money out of it in the long-term.
It just seems very risky to me. Like when you play Monopoly and have a few houses down and want to turn them into hotels but your funds are running low. If you buy them now you might land on someone else's property and be *******. So your praying someone lands on one of yours to keep you afloat and build on that?
I don't disagree Kris.
But then even if they do go down, then they've always got the 'easy' option of administration to clear their debts. 25 million quid each (in relative terms) isn't really a lot of money to risk when the payoff is so big if they do manage to pull it off.