Sullivan has tried to justify the parsimonious attitude to new signings by explaining that money is still owed to Shafting United to compensate them for being shit and getting relegated. They have had £15m already and there's another £10m to be paid over the next 12 months.
Now from a West Ham point of view, the Davids knew what they were taking on when they bought the club so this bleating about the Tevez settlement doesn't wash. Of course Duxbury was a bloody fool to agree it, but it wasn't a secret, and no matter what the debt is, we are now going forwards, not looking back. £10m is a lot of money to you and me, but it is a drop in the ocean when you look at the mega money paid to clubs in the Prem, money that will be sacrificed if you drop out of the division. To put things into perspective, we will have saved nearly £8m by not paying Upson and Parker last season!
But the big question is, what are Shafting United doing with the money? We were relegated and invested to win automatic promotion, using the parachute payment system to ensure we were one of the best three teams in the division. The Blunted Blades had that parachute payment plus our money and what's happened? They dropped down another division and stayed there!
What this proves, of course, is that Sheffield United's relegation had nothing to do with Tevez. Sheffield United were relegated because they were shit. Tevez didn't take any points off of Warnock's Wallies but they still couldn't finish above Wigan and Fulham. Had we finished fourth from bottom, perhaps there might have been an argument, but the opportunity was there for survival, irrespective of what we did; and Sheffield United blew it.
This is karma in its purest form. If we were guilty of wrong doing - and for me it was all a stupid technicality - then we have paid the price with knobs on. The Icelandic bank fiasco and our subsequent relegation is surely punishment enough. We have done our stint in Purgatory. But for the Blades, the torture goes on, burning in the furnaces of their own making. The club has gone to hell, and I, for one, would shed no tears if they never return!
If my memory serves me correct didn't the blades owner say he was keeping the money himself as he had ploughed so much dosh personally.
ReplyDeleteYou have hit the nail spot on HF. Perfect in every way, I dont believe in karma but my missus does, and this is proving it exists!!!
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GOD i hate em so much it makes my blood boil. Thinking back to the day there window licking special needs fans marched up town to parliment lead by that limp wristed crossdressing TWAT Sean bean, hammersfan love reading your posts, just wish you'd give sheffield united more shit then you do. HATE EM. coyi
ReplyDeleteLife's a simple place when you only have one eye.
ReplyDeleteRarely do I agree with every single word a blogger commits to a post. This article is the exception.
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DeleteI just want this Tevez business over with once and for all.
ReplyDeleteThat is almost poetic HF
ReplyDeleteAre Sullivan and Gold trying some sort of good cop bad cop routine whatever it is I don't buy it profit is their aim They see personal riches just like Terry Brown did
ReplyDeleteI stil don't understand why you lot keep moaning about this. You got off ridiculously easily in my opinion. Tevez kept you up when it really mattered and you broke the rules. Don't be so fickle, if the shoe was on the other foot you would have demanded the same. If it was Leeds they would have thrown the book at us and relegated us 2 divisions.
ReplyDeleteAnon tevez was not the only reason we stayed up. One less win during our run of games and we wouldnt have stayed up. Tevez scored 6 goals that season and only three of them were winning goals. Fact we beat everton 1-0 zamora scored not tevez we beat arsenal 1-0 green made 21 saves and zamora scored. How about our back line when neill and collins returned from injury and mccartney came to form lets not forget about our midfield in noble and benayoun and an in form boa morte when he was good. How we lost the case and lost 25 mill to the blades is beyond me
ReplyDeleteSorry Fred....so you didn't break the rules then? It all sounds ridiculously black and white to me.
ReplyDeleteFred159, we lost the case becaus of the crooks now in charge at Watford!!! No way in a million years should we of gotten stung that bad.
ReplyDeleteDid we get done for third party influence or something? Like when you loan a player but tell them you cant play them against your own team. Sounds the same deal to me, everyone is doing it, even Sheff Utd did it on that brilliant season!!!