Sullivan on Transfers

[stubbo]

What a depressing return to the norm this is.  Say what you like about Steidten, but at least he could conclude a deal, and you didn't find out about it until it was mostly done.

Now he's been sidelined from any negotiation, and we've got the relic back on the case, we're back to the same old shit of big names being leaked, low ball bids for cash we dont have in the knowledge they'll never be accepted, and 'quotes' from 'sources' by the usual mouthpieces that "it's desperately hard in January" and "we're working flat out to find a striker, but times are hard".

It's not even cut and dry that Steidten's last window was a bust. 

He wasn't responsble for many end to end but got the deals done. The fraud of the manager he 'fell out with' (maybe he was just ahead of the curve on the charlatan he warned the Club off of) couldn't even get class like Paqueta or Kudus playing well...who's to say the guys he brought in aren't up to it but were just victims of the Spanish prick.  Even Rodriguez looked half decent last night, certainly like he could get a job done for us and as a freebie well worth having.  And when Sullivan wouldn't pay the extra for Duran (despite being able to find ebnough to bid for him now as to what they wanted then) he scrambled last minute to get Fullkrug in who when he's been on the pitch has been our best striker this season...and last I checked Steidten isn't in the business of conducting medicals.

But back to Sullivan....fucking depressing that his track record of failure has got him back in the transfer hotseat, demoted the guy who could sell the vision and get players over the line, and his real life game of Championship Manager is back up and running.

Until there is a concerted effort to oust him from the club, like cutting out an unsightly mole, we're blighted in all aspects.

Actually makes me angry thinking about his wither little hands, index fingers searching out the keys on his keyboard to offer grammatically disastrous risible bids to meaningful clubs around the continent, dragging our name through the mud. 

No doubt when it all fails, the parasite agents associated to him will be called to bail him out again with some washed up old hasbeen that used to sit on the bench for Barcelona.

"Razzle Dazzle" inept cսnt.

[Takashi Miike]

it's gotten to the point where thinking about hopeful alternatives to sullivan's current status of mortality isn't even a mawkish endeavour, it's a practical one.

i have a strong stomach for morbid humour, so may have indulged in less than christian thoughts of him falling out of his booster seat at the OS and ragdolling his way down to the contaminated stratford bedrock, bouncing off every piece of exposed scaffolding along the way, but it's always been largely been an emotional reaction to my disdain for the man and how he runs my club.

but the situation as is stands, even from a completely unemotive perspective, the mortality of our chairman should be seen as a very real professional barrier to the club's progress. he's dug himself in like an obstinate squatter and as such is essentially a biological debt that we're stuck waiting for the universe to pay back - with no clear due date.

if i was a business magnate thinking of investing in west ham, along with the financial reports, i'd be demanding the medical records of our beloved chairman and the more descending lines i saw, the more likely i'd be to jump on board. this may sound callous to sensitive ears, but it's just the state of things.

he's now somehow engineered a circumstance where through his own terrible judgement of manager (now sacked) and campaign to undermine the technical director (in name only) through the failure of said manager, he now has the setup he's always dreamed of, a head coach with no real or even implied authority over transfers answering directly to him, with salty wormtongue nibbling at his ear.

so now we wait, like the surfer in guiness advert. tick followed tock followed tick followed tock. not for crashing waves, but for blue lights, black armbands and a hope for the future.

I agree, and if Potter gets above his station and starts demanding too much, the midget will activate his team of ITK propagandists to shit on the new manager 

[factory seconds]

it's gotten to the point where thinking about hopeful alternatives to sullivan's current status of mortality isn't even a mawkish endeavour, it's a practical one.

i have a strong stomach for morbid humour, so may have indulged in less than christian thoughts of him falling out of his booster seat at the OS and ragdolling his way down to the contaminated stratford bedrock, bouncing off every piece of exposed scaffolding along the way, but it's always been largely been an emotional reaction to my disdain for the man and how he runs my club.

but the situation as is stands, even from a completely unemotive perspective, the mortality of our chairman should be seen as a very real professional barrier to the club's progress. he's dug himself in like an obstinate squatter and as such is essentially a biological debt that we're stuck waiting for the universe to pay back - with no clear due date.

if i was a business magnate thinking of investing in west ham, along with the financial reports, i'd be demanding the medical records of our beloved chairman and the more descending lines i saw, the more likely i'd be to jump on board. this may sound callous to sensitive ears, but it's just the state of things.

he's now somehow engineered a circumstance where through his own terrible judgement of manager (now sacked) and campaign to undermine the technical director (in name only) through the failure of said manager, he now has the setup he's always dreamed of, a head coach with no real or even implied authority over transfers answering directly to him, with salty wormtongue nibbling at his ear.

so now we wait, like the surfer in guiness advert. tick followed tock followed tick followed tock. not for crashing waves, but for blue lights, black armbands and a hope for the future.

[RBshorty]

We aren't going down this season and it's extremely unlikely we are getting into Europe. If someone we really want comes on the market at a decent price, great, snaffle them up. But I really don't see the point in paying over the odds for players that other clubs are desperate to get rid of just to finish 9th instead of 14th (or even 17th, to be honest). I'd rather keep our powder dry and make the signings we really want to in the summer. I suspect from his answers to questions so far that Potter is also in this camp.

There was no lack of getting the deals over the line last summer and I think most on here thought it was a reasonably decent window for us. Sadly, many of them were shit or, Loetegui was incapable of getting a decent tune out of them. Rather than panic buy, I'd rather see if a decent coach can use the next five months to realise their full potential.Hopefully, once we have half a dozen more points on the board, Potter will start taking a look at the youth and some of the signing that haven't worked out so far.

I'm very encouraged by his willingness to already play Scarles and a couple of others that haven't had a decent crack so far. 

Clearly we have some dross (Mavropanos for one) and some decent old warriors that badly need replacing (Coufal, Fabianski, Antonio and Cresswell at least) but let's not continue the habit of expensive and pointless churning. That way, Lopetegui can just be forgotten as a coach that stalled us for a year but did no lasting damage.

 

 

Great post Surf. Unfortunately our Glorious Leader would also agree with it. Our season was over with last Friday’s exit. The best we will get now is hopefully watching Potter doing he’s upmost to make a silk purse. Out of a Sow’s ear.!

[El Scorchio]

How depressing if true. It was only a matter of time until he decided to put his greasy little fingers back into the pot again. Time and time again he can't fucking help himself and just stay out of it. 

Great. He (allegedly) did Summerville and AWB. Doesn't make up for the millions and millions he's wasted on utter shit by getting it wrong, getting his pants pulled down or getting hoodwinked by his mates to gift them a slice of pie out of our coffers. Funny how he only ever tries to associate himself with transfers that seem to have worked and completely tries to disassociate himself with any that don't. I remember him boasting repeatedly about Issa Diop six months in. Went pretty fucking quiet after that on that one didn't he. He's more obsessed with crowing about 'winning' a deal than winning football matches, of that there is no doubt. Get ready for more expensive middle aged players with no resell value but 'friendly' agents.

Fucking embarrassing. We'll always be a joke while we're run like a fucking second hand car dealership with that barrow boy in charge.

[Manuel]

Mmmm, I'm not sure about this at all, the grinning scarf the hero and Sullivan the pantomime villain. Not for me.

[only1billybonds]

Good post Surf, totally agree, we can realistically only finish outside the top seven and above the bottom four so blowing an arm and a leg on mediocrity just for the sake of a couple of league places would be beyond foolish. Wait til the summer, try offload a few then go in big for a couple we really want/need.

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

We aren't going down this season and it's extremely unlikely we are getting into Europe. If someone we really want comes on the market at a decent price, great, snaffle them up. But I really don't see the point in paying over the odds for players that other clubs are desperate to get rid of just to finish 9th instead of 14th (or even 17th, to be honest). I'd rather keep our powder dry and make the signings we really want to in the summer. I suspect from his answers to questions so far that Potter is also in this camp.

There was no lack of getting the deals over the line last summer and I think most on here thought it was a reasonably decent window for us. Sadly, many of them were shit or, Loetegui was incapable of getting a decent tune out of them. Rather than panic buy, I'd rather see if a decent coach can use the next five months to realise their full potential.Hopefully, once we have half a dozen more points on the board, Potter will start taking a look at the youth and some of the signing that haven't worked out so far.

I'm very encouraged by his willingness to already play Scarles and a couple of others that haven't had a decent crack so far. 

Clearly we have some dross (Mavropanos for one) and some decent old warriors that badly need replacing (Coufal, Fabianski, Antonio and Cresswell at least) but let's not continue the habit of expensive and pointless churning. That way, Lopetegui can just be forgotten as a coach that stalled us for a year but did no lasting damage.

[Lee Trundle]

This might have some weight to it if Sullivan hasn't won the transfer window out of the 3.  Give me his picks (Summerville and AWB) over Tim's (Guilherme and Fullkrug).

"at least he could conclude a deal"
If there's any truth in the rumours about the Guilherme transfer, then you might be hoping he couldn't close deals.

"and you didn't find out about it until it was mostly done"
You reckon?  The bloke is the biggest media whore out there constantly leaking stuff to his mate Fabrizio Romano.

I'd have no real issues if Tim goes, as long as we get someone in to replace him, which I think we will.

[Alfs]

I'm incredibly underwhelmed by who we're being linked with,  Calvert-Lewin, Awoniyi from Forest and a bloke who cant get in to the Lens team.