May I join others in expressing my complete admiration for Sullivan and Gold and my unreserved joy at their securing control of my beloved West Ham United! I know that only last week, 93% of West Ham fans pretended they were against a Gold and Sullivan take over of the club, but now it has happened, we can all come clean and admit that this was what we wanted all along!
Just like Napoleon and Squealer in Animal Farm, we used tactics, yes tactics comrades, to fool everybody into thinking that we favoured Fernandes or Intermarket! What nonsense comrades! As if we would ever have favoured either of those two! They are allies of Tottenham, yes Tottenham comrades! They wanted to destroy West Ham comrades! No, comrades, we always favoured Gold and Sullivan, we always secretly supported their bid, we always had absolute and total faith in their strategy to save West Ham!
It has come to our attention that there are silly rumours circulating to the effect that Sullivan and Gold lined their own pockets whilst owning Birmingham and that they were cruel to the animals on the Birmingham terraces. But that is exactly what they are comrades, silly rumours! Birmingham were never relegated whilst Sullivan and Gold were in charge, in fact they won the Premiership and qualified for the Champions League comrades! I know there are also rumours that Sullivan and Gold intend to sell the ground and leave us without a stadium of our own, but do you really think, comrades, that we would support their ownership if that was their intention? Of course we wouldn't comrades! Remember comrades, tactics!
But comrades, it has also come to our attention that following the takeover, some unscrupulous elements are still questioning Sullivan and Gold, implying that they may be acting out of self interest in some way. That is outrageous comrades and such talk cannot be tolerated! Anybody criticising Sullivan and Gold is an enemy of West Ham, a traitor, a Spud! Comrades, we must unite behind Sullivan and Gold and against the common foe! Ban the dissident blogs, renounce the sceptics, condemn the Spuds who simply pretend to have the best interests of our club at heart! Sullivan and Gold are West Ham gods and don't anybody dare forget that! And as for Billy Bonds expressing concerns, well we know what happened to Boxer in Animal Farm don't we?
Kinnell!
ReplyDeleteLet's look at the facts.
ReplyDelete1. Do we owe any less money than we did before the takeover? No!
2. Where did the 50 million or so paid by the two Davids go? Straight into the pockets of the Icelanders.
3. Do the Two Davids have any other money to invest in the Club or repay the loans? No!
4. What is the two Ds strategic plan? To get others to invest in the Club, sell Upton Park and get the Govt. to agree to let us have the Olympic Stadium 4-5 years from now.
5. How is this any different from what we had before? Perhaps the threat of administration in not imminent now but other than that, I can't think of anything else.
6. The Italian guy who wanted to buy the club claims that he would have paid off all the loans and would have made available plenty of cash to strengthen the team. Now apart from his suspect credentials, that is the type of buyer West Ham needed. In any case, it was reported today what sort of business the two Davids were in and how they made their money. I am not sure whether this is true, but if so, then the credentials the West Ham suitors do not really come into it.
So in conclusion, unless the two Davids can create something out of nothing time will show that all we have managed was to make a temporary bad situation a permanent bad one.
Other than that, long live the Kings!
Yes I think they have acted out of self interest and who could blame them, but I see this as a good thing, they are going to want to see us run well & turn a profit in the mid to long term.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is good enough for me, at least for the next few years.
At very least we now have our very own bingo caller to call our own, judging by the jacket.
You seem very anti Gullican Mr k. I admit they were not my choice to take over but tbh now that they're here and listening to what they have said so far I'm actually happy. sure they may not be as loaded as the Arabs but let's be honest look what happened to us when we were loaded. Taking the steady approach to success is more favourable than buying it and if we don't get there at least we'll still have a club to support
ReplyDeleteSavvakis I completely disagree about needing the Italian. If you consider what Cagliari must be thinking, he has that much money that he is not investing in their club? I think he gets bored with things very quickly e.g managers. I would actually be quite terrified if he said he had eradicated all the debt.
ReplyDeleteSullivan sounds realistic and I did like what I heard, but in my short life so far I have learned that talk is very very cheap. I said previously that none of the prospective buyers attracted me much but now I realise it was because of the shape our club is in. I didn't think the debt would be THAT much. Terrifying.
"National Unity in a time of crisis?!"
ReplyDeleteDo you know if they will be selling those DS jackets in the club shop?
T.I.S.,
ReplyDeleteI am not in favour of the Italian. I would have been much happier however if there was even a marginal improvement of the financial situation the Club finds itself in, by the money brought in by the investor who is handed total control of the Club. To have the loans rescheduled buys you some breathing time but it is a high risk game because the debt has to be serviced and I don't see where the repayment capability comes from in this case. Perhaps Fernandes would have been a better option. I really don't know. But what is done is done. Let's hope it works out for us.
Ahahahahahaha Jesus wept!
ReplyDeleteHat off to you HF,
1) You managed in the last article to reference monkeys, which I understand from reading your site, is a dig at the org and therefore I have no frame of reference but proved one of my points
2)I didn't ask you to blindly follow G&S and confess that out of the four potential bidders they seemed the most uninspiring, but as it turns out they were in reality the only real bidder - would you rather Duxbury was borrowing against future earnings and CB Holding were flogging at least one decent player a window?
Obviously you have your finger on the pulse of 98% of West Ham fans and their ever fickle nature so are absolutely qualified to pour scorn on everything related to the club.
What I asked on the last article is what would it take to write a positive article.
I'm not saying fall in line with the new regime, I'm merely suggesting that you wait and see whether the actions match up to the hype before spaffing off and continuing with this outet for your bitter, miserable bile.
Didn't agree with you under the Icelandics, don't agree with you now and for that reason, under the banner of life's too short, I'm bored and I'm out.
Good luck to you and above COYI.
Have just read over on WHTID that your friend Iain Dale received an email from none other than the great DS himself. Did you get one too?
ReplyDeleteTake a squint at a proper blog
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.soccernet.com/westhamunited/archives/2010/01/the_gold_standard.php
Fonzie, polls were conducted on other sites which is where the 93% stat comes from. This article is not in response to your comments, it is response to the laughable extent to which people have reversed their opinions and now fallen 100% behind S&G. I am not condemning the guys, I am just cautious. I've said that, in the short term, it is good news. I'm worried that in the longer term it may not be. We will see. Blind trust is dangerous!
ReplyDeleteSLF, never having used any S&G products before, I have not built up any sort of relationship with them. Whereas Mr Dale perhaps...
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