nychammer
10:24 Mon May 23
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We spent large last summer
Zouma: hit
Vlasic: expensive miss
On the one hand We can’t afford to fuck up too many times on expensive misfits.
On the other hand we’ve had gawd knows how long to track potential signings so there no excuse for not making a move sooner than later. Sorry to bang on about them but spurs managed a January signing and it galvanized their season while we dithered and fizzled out.
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Sir Alf
10:18 Mon May 23
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Goose iirc that Transfermkt site showed us as 9th highest net spenders over all the Premiership years and slightly lower under Sullivan and Gold tenure. Mid table level investment
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Sir Alf
10:15 Mon May 23
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Speculation from all of us on who failed in Jan and whether it was Moyesor Sullivan? I suspect both but in a difficult Jan window where you have to pay well over the odds to get a quality player mid season from a team then I am guessingSullivan made it clear there were budget limitations on fees, wages and the real driver for Sully which is cash flow since we like a lot of clubs finance every thru loans. In our case Sullivan and Gold put their money up for loans at a lovely interest rate and after the uncertainty of COVID which was still rampant in Jan they did not want to risk much money. This left Moyes with having to get a stop gap or a high risk of failure perhaps.He thought he would carry on with what he had and save it for summer? Pure speculation of course but plausible?
Anyway, we have to remember Sullivan has 12 years at West Ham and another 8 ? at Birmingham where he overpromised and under delivered mostly or just got it all wrong on transfer business.
We supposedly made 228 million this season. How much will be available to invest? Will we soon hear about the 100+ million we always seem to be carrying as debt and how loans to Sully etc need to be paid off? Don’t be surprised if we spend our usual 50 - 100 million and a few frees and loan to buys with just one or two actual buys. We need 7 or 8 quality first team ready players but history of Sullivan and Moyes compliance ( he managed on a budget at Everton under Kenwright for years ). Will mean we get 3 or 4 quality players at best.
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goose
10:06 Mon May 23
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Easy to be 4th highest net spend when you spent the square root of fuck all the year before.
Over a few years we’re probably 7th or 8th highest - which is where we should be.
Problem has been how they’ve spent that money in years gone by.
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Side of Ham
10:02 Mon May 23
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Couple of pointers….
You can forget it being 35 years of mediocrity they told us to judge our history from when we moved, we’ve done well but they have shown us their limitations which falls short of it’s size of support.
Name another club in the PL that can get 60,000+ crowds and has had a small squad moving into the place and since. This has led to falling short and this would not be tolerated at any other PL club that draws that size of crowd.
It’s not good enough now we’ve moved they need to step aside…..we just want parity of full attendance with a full squad of decent cover.
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wd40
10:00 Mon May 23
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Go on you lot join the 90% of fans of clubs and
all phone up a radio football phone in and state you want the following
A new centre forward.
2 new midfielders
A world class centre half
and don't the old classic and say you want new owners !
Just bore us all to death.
GSB TO STAY !!
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Hermit Road
9:49 Mon May 23
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"4th highest net spend last summer."
I didn't realise that. To be fair to them, it is hard to criticise them if that's the case.
We are still suffering the fallout from the Pellegrini years with his mate as a supposed Director of Football. It's clear more investment is needed this summer because whatever the reasons, we can't afford to have a bench like the one we have had for much longer.
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Alex G
9:42 Mon May 23
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Calling out the board after the season we've just had? I'd hate to think how people reacted to the past thirty five years or so of mediocrity we've had to endure.
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chav_corner
8:57 Mon May 23
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If they had put their hands in their pockets in January we would have been in Champions League next year.-And they still treat our fans so badly.sadly some fans choose to ignore how badly they treat the fans til it actually happens to them.GSB out.
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Jaan Kenbrovin
8:00 Mon May 23
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4th highest net spend last summer. Got another billionaire investor on board. Another crack at Europe next season too.
Not much of a stick to beat them with at the moment really.
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goose
7:59 Mon May 23
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Moyes might be in charge of transfer targets but he doesn’t make the bids or sign the cheque.
We had at least 3 different bids rejected in Jan.
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13 Brentford Rd
7:56 Mon May 23
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All on Moyes.
He's the manager, it's up to him to ensure he has the right players and enough of them to cover our needs. We had neither. As much of a cunt that Sullivan is, there's no way he's gonna tell Moyes there's no money at all so you can't sign anyone.
No one apart from Moyes thought it best to sign no one in January. We all called it and said it would cost us and it has.
He deserves all the criticism he's getting for an idiotic decision.
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ted fenton
7:54 Mon May 23
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West Ham News
West Ham United are set to receive a whopping £228million in prize money and TV revenue for the 2021-22 season.
https://www.facebook.com/THEWESTHAMUNITEDNEWS
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Swiss.
7:50 Mon May 23
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Yes and they can take the useless jock with them.
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oioi
7:27 Mon May 23
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Europe on a shoestring. In their world that is a massive success.
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Hermit Road
7:26 Mon May 23
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Lee Trundle 6:07 Mon May 23
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If all that is true, it is a fair point.
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Hermit Road
7:25 Mon May 23
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The original post is spot on. Our subs bench has been sparse for most of the season.
We are lucky to have one of the best midfielders in the world playing for us. Take him out and we're mid table side at best.
Some proper investment is well overdue.
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BRANDED
7:21 Mon May 23
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I recon they love it and have loved the last two years.
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oioi
7:19 Mon May 23
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GSB will go when they decide to go.
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brundal
7:15 Mon May 23
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Lee Trundall
My grandmother could have indentified him as a player that would have suited our style of play , but it’s Sullivan who holds the purse strings. And we all know what he has done in previous transfer windows , a leopard doesn’t change his spots.
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Sajmo1
7:03 Mon May 23
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You really think we bid 50m for Phillips? Leeds CEO worked for Sullivan and was involved in LS deal.
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