the straw 3:00 Tue Nov 12
Imagine buying a PL football club like ours...
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... Well I say buying.
I actually mean paying for half of it. So £42.5m on an £85m total value.
Split between two of you. So let's say £20m each.
For total control of West Ham.
Then imagine telling all the fans that you actually support the club and that you're locals and you'd do your best.
Then imagine a 'world class team for a world class stadium'.
Then imagine taking out 7% Interest on that minimal investment on a debt that is serviceable via PL money. Imagine getting that original investment of £20m back within 24 months despite employing a manager that relegates the club.
Then imagine owning a football club (or two) for 30 years. Imagine winning nothing. But profiting from the club and its fans personally.
Imagine doing something for 30 years and winning nothing. Not one single trophy.
Imagine employing Alex Mcleish, Sam Allardyce, Avram Grant and David Moyes.
Imagine having a blank canvas of a beautiful football club like West Ham for an entire decade.
Then imagine blaming every single failure, lopsided squad and early cup exit on every single manager that you actually employ yourselves. Imagine never once accepting responsibility
Imagine after an entire decade of promises, after 10 point pledges to the fans, after 'we'll be in the Champions League in 7 years plans'.
Imagine after all of that.. .
That you could still get away with things like having purchased just one single goalkeeper for a transfer fee in ten years. Every other goalkeeper in an entire decade has been signed on a free transfer.
By this point you are laughing at the morons still supporting you for 'saving the club'. You then imagine how much you could further save by not investing in trivial things such as fullbacks.
£11m has been spent on fullbacks in a decade. Both our current right backs were free transfers.
Imagine after all of this you still have the passive but lucrative support of the fanbase that you clearly so detest.
If you can get away with inheriting the below listed squad on the day you bought the club, having a whole decade in charge and then leaving us with what we've got now... And then having no riots about it... then you really have won. You've sanitsed us. Divided us and conquered us. Well done. Enjoy your money.
Look at the squad they inherited. A squad plying their trade at Upton Park. It's better than our current squad. It's better balanced. Our fans should be ashamed of themselves for letting this happen.
1 Robert Green
4 Danny Gabbidon
7 Kieron Dyer
8 Scott Parker (vice-captain)
9 Ilan
10 Franco
12 Carlton Cole
13 Luís Boa Morte
14 Radoslav Kováč
15 Matthew Upson (captain)
16 Mark Noble
17 Benni McCarthy
18 Jonathan Spector
20 Julien Faubert
21 Valon Behrami
22 Manuel da Costa
23 Hérita Ilunga
29 Marek Štěch
30 James Tomkins
31 Jack Collison
32 Alessandro Diamanti
33 Fabio Daprela
41 Zavon Hines
45 Jordan Spence
46 Junior Stanislas
Luis Jimenez (on loan from Inter)
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David L
10:03 Tue Nov 12
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Yeah, cracking squad that one.
If only we still had McCarthy and Kovac eh? They'd sort things out
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Steven P
10:09 Tue Nov 12
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You, you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one
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Takashi Miike
10:15 Tue Nov 12
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straw, what do you think could have been done to stop them? when you have a percentage of the fan base willing to hit their fellow fans because they support the board and are against protests, it's over
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Bernie
10:16 Tue Nov 12
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Good points well made.
But your off your trolley if you think that squad is better than the current one
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the straw
10:20 Tue Nov 12
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Actually on reflection it's out of order to say the fans should be ashamed of themselves so I take that back.
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the straw
10:20 Tue Nov 12
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Actually on reflection it's out of order to say the fans should be ashamed of themselves so I take that back.
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Sydney_Iron
10:21 Tue Nov 12
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*Blinks
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JLAP
10:36 Tue Nov 12
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17 Benni McCarthy
Lolz
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,
10:53 Tue Nov 12
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Imagine supporting the likes of Bolton, Sunderland, Charlton etc over the same time period.
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Nagel
10:58 Tue Nov 12
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That was a pretty decent rant but you fucked it up royally at the end there. I don't think a single player outside of central midfield would make our first 11 and only Green would make the bench.
The squad they inherited was absolute shit. Apparently they didn't realise this because not enough was done to improve it after Zola was sacked and so we were relegated. Didn't help that they hired the worst manager in our history either
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Lee Trundle
11:02 Tue Nov 12
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I've just googled JORDI Spence and he's been out of contract since Ipswich released him last season.
Alex V will probably be surprised to see that.
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goose
11:04 Tue Nov 12
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on paper its not a better squad, but Upson, Green and Parker would walk into the team at the moment. Maybe Behrami too.
Zola got a 10th place finish out of that pile of crap.
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SUM A DING WONG
11:08 Tue Nov 12
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I remember years ago saying we should have built the team around Fabio Daprela.
We would have been unstoppable - but no, no one listened.
You reap what you sow, eh.
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ironskej
11:14 Tue Nov 12
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For breakfast, do I go for porridge or cereal? Or is that team better than ours?
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BRANDED
11:29 Tue Nov 12
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Imagine
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penners28
11:43 Tue Nov 12
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then imagine, after all that, that some people still think they SAVED US
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mallard
11:53 Tue Nov 12
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That is one dog-shite squad!
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Mike Oxsaw
11:54 Tue Nov 12
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penners28 11:43 Tue Nov 12
They did save us. Problem is, after the saving was done, they should have moved on to save another club and handed over to somebody who could run the club.
Saving/building and running a club (or any business venture, really) require very different skill sets
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wd40
12:51 Tue Nov 12
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Julien Faubert
one hell of a full back.
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Vexed
12:56 Tue Nov 12
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IMAGINE WHAT CRYBABY THREADS THERE WILL BE WHEN WE LOSE THE NEXT TWO GAMES
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