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WHUFC annual strategy seems to be: “No matter how shit we are, there’s always three teams worse than us”

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Except one year, they will be wrong. I have been praying that this will be the year.
:avbpray:
Well now they will be able to say that they are better than at least 21 of their 24 future opponents :townhmm:
 
About as good value a deal as they got out of Andy "Bandy" Carrol

The Dildos, eh. Bit harder to make a success of a footie club than selling porn. Even when the Govt gifts you the stadium and everything else you need down to the corner flags. And charges you all of £2.5m a year rent

Lady fucking Brady got a wage rise this year £1.5m!
 
This year I thought spam less shit than they’ve turned out to be ... a pleasing misjudgment

I thought for the first time in maybe forever that they had a half decent spine through the middle

fabianski

balbuena / diop

rice

haller

( I knew nothing of haller but the chatter on here was fairly positive)

when I say half decent I mean I considered they probably wouldn’t be in the relegation mix

but they really are dog and again, happy to have misread that one
 
Was looking at run ins last night. Could definitely go down to the wire.

We have got some nice games
Woolwich & Leicester home, palace & Newcastle away. , Chelsea = Norwich & wolves home Sheff u & Liverpool away
United = Southampton & West Ham home Palace &Leicester away

And West Ham probably will have their fate in their own hands. Three 6 pointers out of 4 games. 2 at home including last day of the season against Vil. Probably how you would want it tbh.

Watford and villa home Norwich & United away

Be May before we know it.....
 
Was looking at run ins last night. Could definitely go down to the wire.

We have got some nice games
Woolwich & Leicester home, palace & Newcastle away. , Chelsea = Norwich & wolves home Sheff u & Liverpool away
United = Southampton & West Ham home Palace &Leicester away

And West Ham probably will have their fate in their own hands. Three 6 pointers out of 4 games. 2 at home including last day of the season against Vil. Probably how you would want it tbh.

Watford and villa home Norwich & United away

Be May before we know it.....

They don't have home games they have away games and neutral games, villa will relish going to the banter bowl if it goes down to the wire
 
If Brighton do em even Moyes ... who’s known for his winning ... he said so you know .... won’t save them

(what an absolutely insulting piece of revisionism that is from Moyes ....of course being that ridiculous makes it that hilarious)
 
They don't have home games they have away games and neutral games, villa will relish going to the banter bowl if it goes down to the wire

Yeah they are almost bottom of the league for “home” form. So you may have a point. Still 3 (current) 6 pointers however you look at it. They could be in serious trouble by then with the run of games into April.
 
Whilst the hilarity continues in waves, there is always this that still boils the blood...................



West Ham have contrived crisis from a golden opportunity - but owners are not the biggest losers
SAM WALLACE
CHIEF FOOTBALL WRITER

Good news for the owners of West Ham United whose eye-catching losses and record levels of supporter discontent were offset this week by a top of the table finish that may come as a surprise to those still making the long trek out from Stratford via Westfield shopping centre.
The club were voted best for “matchday stadium experience” according to a survey conducted by that well-known expert in football culture, the budget hotel chain Premier Inn who considered “cost”, “team quality” and “food and drink quality” well ahead of “stadium history”. For those clubs unhappy with the results one can only advise devising their own league table ranking the nation’s Premier Inns along similar lines.
One also notes reports during the summer of 2018 that West Ham’s players spent some of pre-season recuperating from training sessions at the Romford branch of the same hotel chain which poses another question. Might they have amassed more Premier Inn loyalty points than those awarded for wins and draws in the Premier League?
So to those financial results released this week ahead of Wednesday’s Premier League/Inn clash with Liverpool, detailing the £28.2 million losses they announced for the previous financial year to maintain the club’s proud status as relegation-threatened struggler. The Manuel Pellegrini experiment undertaken by owners David Sullivan and David Gold in the summer of 2018, as well as signings such as Felipe Anderson and Jack Wilshere, put £30 million on a wage bill that now stands at £135.8 million.

The club’s accounts record a loan of £42 million from Rights and Media Funding which was repaid in total in July and was replaced with a £39 million loan from the same source repayable in July this year. The additional £45 million loan from Gold and Sullivan, accumulating an interest rate of 4.25 per cent per annum, has attracted criticism from fans’ groups who would rather the owners put equity into the club instead of debt.

Other highlights included what the club describe as a £238,000 bonus for Karren Brady, the vice-chairman, principally for an increase in turnover to £190.7 million that takes her latest annual earnings to £1.136 million. As ever, the club’s owners invite their critics to look back at the £110 million debt-saddled club they acquired in 2010 and be thankful for their intervention – although there is no question as to who the biggest beneficiaries have been.
That is Sullivan and Gold from whom the standard response on West Ham’s future is that the club is not for sale. Yet the losses in these results once again bring the focus back on the 99-year lease agreement struck between West Ham and the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) for an annual Premier League season tenancy of £2.5 million.

In March 2013, the two parties signed an agreement on a percentage due back to the taxpayer in the event of Sullivan and Gold selling the club over the following ten years up to 2023. Under that agreement a sale this year, for example, of more than £300 million would yield 20 per cent of a consideration to the public purse. A sale of between £200 million and £300 million would yield 12.5 per cent. A sale after 2023 earns nothing for the taxpayer.
Under the agreement, the provision is that any debt would be covered in the sale price and the taxpayer percentage would come out of the remaining balance. In that respect there are few long-term disadvantages to Sullivan and Gold in the club taking on debt when it comes to West Ham’s sale now, or indeed after the elapse of the LLDC claw-back agreement. It is also worth noting that under the agreement’s terms, the club could be sold at any time before March 2023 to a member of the Sullivan or Gold families without any liability being owed to the taxpayer.
There were also agreements over the percentage of a naming rights deal due to LLDC although almost four years since the move to Stratford the honour of having one’s name over the door has proved eminently resistible to the world’s biggest brands.

By 2016 when West Ham moved into the London Stadium, the cost to the public purse of converting it to football had risen to £323 million of which just £15 million had been contributed by Sullivan and Gold in a one-off payment. West Ham were portrayed in some quarters as having pulled off the greatest deal of all, persuading successive governments eager for an Olympics legacy to build them a stadium, which would propel them to become one of English football’s super-clubs.

Midway through their fourth season there, Sullivan was obliged this week to warn of the “serious financial consequences” of relegation for that putative super-club, still somehow contriving to miss the golden opportunity once deemed impossible to squander. Yet for the owners of the club Sullivan (51.1 per cent) and Gold (35.1 per cent) there is no downside. Most recently valued at £473 million by Forbes, the clock is ticking on what, if anything there will be in any sale of West Ham for the taxpayer who built and all but converted the former Olympics Stadium.
As for the supporters, their independent groups have found it difficult to have their voice heard with Brady. She has established her own “Official Supporters Board” which sounds like the ultimate solution to supporter disquiet: in-house, on-message dissent. In the latest annual report there was no mention of the long-term future from Sullivan, 70, or Gold, 83. Should, for example, Sullivan decide that his share of West Ham passes to his son Jack, currently managing director of West Ham women, then that would be exempt from any agreement to return money to the public purse.

Between the auditing and publication of their financial results, Pellegrini, the manager described by Sullivan as having “the most successful track record in the club’s history” and on whose advice £143.7 million was spent in the transfer market, had been sacked. The ambition has once again been downgraded to Premier League survival and the only upside of failure for the ownership can once again be found in that 2013 dream deal with LLDC. A season’s tenancy at the London Stadium playing in the Championship comes at the reduced price of £1.25 million.
 
What he said was he had treatment at west ham.still suffered.Had the same treatment at Newcastle and it is much better.Think i recall him saying the latter was more intense as well.
According to that tweet comparing them to Ajax, they dont even have fitness coaches.
The negligence is amazing.
 
What he said was he had treatment at west ham.still suffered.Had the same treatment at Newcastle and it is much better.Think i recall him saying the latter was more intense as well.
If that’s the case and Andy wasn’t totally mugging them off . That negligence to provide a top class medical team has just cost them millions by not having a multi million pound asset able to play in points cost , wages and resale value

The West Ham way 😂
 
Whilst the hilarity continues in waves, there is always this that still boils the blood...................



West Ham have contrived crisis from a golden opportunity - but owners are not the biggest losers
SAM WALLACE
CHIEF FOOTBALL WRITER

By 2016 when West Ham moved into the London Stadium, the cost to the public purse of converting it to football had risen to £323 million of

Most recently valued at £473 million by Forbes, the clock is ticking on what, if anything there will be in any sale of West Ham for the taxpayer who built and all but converted the former Olympics Stadium.

Thanks, Fat Doris. everyone goes on about the waste of money on the Garden Bridge, but that's chicken shit against the £323m JUST TO CONVERT THE STADIUM. Not build it from scratch!! That's 2-3 times the amount it cost to build the Millenium Stadium, which has a much bigger capacity too. These are Failing Grayling levels of incompetence FFS.

If they hold on to the club for just another 3 years, there's no dividend to the taxpayer at all.

I hope they go through 3 fucking relegations all the way down the divisions, Bournemouth in reverse, and the value of the club just falls through the floor.
 
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