I am not the author of this article, it was submitted via comments. If the author would like to own up, I will accredit him. My money is on it being Scott Duxbury!
Any talk of West Ham being close to financial meltdown is absolute scare-mongering, conjecture and nonsense. We are well over the hump and have been for months!
- West Ham have raised over £50m in player sales since the Summer of 2008 (the same time-frame as Pompey). That's with Green, Upson, Behrami, Parker, Noble, Collison, Tomkins, Cole and Diamanti still at the club.
- If West Ham were as close to folding as some claim (or on "life support"), then why weren't summer/January offers for Cole, Behrami, Upson and Tomkins accepted?
- West Ham's annual turnover is over 50% greater than Portsmouth's.
West Ham were in a financial mess because of Curbishley and Magnusson. Severe overspending on wages/transfe fees was the cause. However, from this summer we will obviously be well into the rebuilding process because so many players are out of contract and our wage bill will be cut dramatically. Dyer will go, Davenport will go, Boa Morte will go, Gabbidon will go, Upson will go, Ilan will go, Behrami will go etc etc.
Gold and Sullivan will take the credit, but Duxbury and Nani deserve the praise. To keep us with a Premier League standard squad, despite flogging £50m worth of talent and cutting the wage-bill by over 30% is remarkable. Those 2 are hated by many, but one day, probably the next time we win a trophy, every West Ham fan should look to Duxbury and Nani and say "Thank You!"
£50m recouped, wage-bill sliced by over 25% and only 3 places dropped since May 2008 in the league (from 10th to 13th now).
WORLD CLASS SCOTT AND GIANLUCA!!!!
you have to be shitting me haha what a crock of shite!!!
ReplyDeleteNo mention of the £25m settlement with Shafting United! And the name Savio doesn't figure anywhere either. Funny that!
ReplyDeleteJust going a bit further back in time and we will see that Duxbury was involved in everything that got us into such trouble.
ReplyDeleteNo Stani, everybody else got everything wrong, Duxbury was the only one getting things right! To think, he was the in house legal advisor when we SIGNED Tevez! So that contract must have been legal mustn't it? Just imagine, if we hadn't signed Tevez on an illegal contract, where we might be now! But Dux knew best! Just like he knew best when he gave Ashton that contract extension!
ReplyDeleteIt shows you the calibre of scum he is that he managed to keep his job and/or get promoted at each of these troubling junctures in our recent past.
ReplyDeleteHe should give you an interview now HF. That would be interesting!
The credit for being able to sell £50 milllion worth of players and still maintain a premiership squad should surely go to Tony Carr?
ReplyDeleteTony Carr? Nonsense! Duxbury recruited all our kids, going right back as far as Cottee! Credit where credit is due Marty!
ReplyDeleteThe only positive thing I am sure of that the Golivans brought to the Club by taking over is the fact that we finally got rid of the rats that were eating us alive. Don't forget that prior to Duxbury and Nani we had Storrie, T. Brown and of course a rat called Harry Redknapp. West Ham seems to be a fertile ground for rot.
ReplyDeleteTalking of Redknapp. have you noticed that three of the clubs that he has been at IE West Ham, Bournmouth and Portsmouth all have nearly gone out of business? Hopefully the same will happen to the Spuds
ReplyDeleteYou forgot Southampton! Three have actually gone into administration! Coincidence? 'Arry says it is!
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