West Ham Statement

[LeroysBoots]

https://www.whufc.com/news/message-all- ... supporters

[BRANDED]

Would you trust them to find a replacement?

[Lee Trundle]

Not sure what people expected them to say.



 

 

 

From Brady I'd like to here "I resign".  I mean, it's not too much to ask for considering how much she's failed.

[scott_d]

If they’re going to use AI, why not use it properly?




Q to Chat GPT: How would you appease the West Ham fans if you were the owner


A:


If I were the owner of West Ham and wanted to appease the fans, I’d focus on a mix of short-term gestures that show respect and long-term commitments that build trust. West Ham supporters are fiercely loyal but also vocal about their frustrations—especially regarding ambition, identity, and transparency. Here’s how I’d approach it:    1. Respect the Club’s Identity  

• Acknowledge Upton Park’s legacy: Fans still feel the loss of their traditional home. I’d create a permanent tribute at the London Stadium—like a “Boleyn Corner” with murals, statues, and memorabilia.
• Strengthen the East End connection: More community outreach in Newham and local grassroots investment, so fans feel the club hasn’t drifted from its roots.

     2. Improve the Matchday Experience  

• Better atmosphere at London Stadium: Work with supporter groups to improve safe standing sections, closer seating, and matchday traditions (chants, walk-on music, flags).
• Affordable tickets: Expand cheaper tickets for kids and loyalty discounts for long-term season ticket holders.

     3. Footballing Ambition  

• Clear football plan: Outline a 5-year sporting project with transparency about transfer budgets, youth development, and European ambitions.
• Smarter recruitment: Hire a top-tier sporting director and scout aggressively for value signings rather than overpriced flops.
• Back the manager properly: Fans respect managers who show passion and fight—so I’d give them the resources and time they need, but also not settle for stagnation.

     4. Honest Communication  

• Regular fan forums: Quarterly Q&A sessions between ownership and supporters, streamed online, with tough questions allowed.
• Transparency: No vague promises of “world-class players in a world-class stadium” unless we deliver. Be straight about financial realities and ambitions.

     5. Pride in the Club’s Legacy  

• Celebrate the club’s history more visibly—Bobby Moore, Trevor Brooking, Billy Bonds, Paolo Di Canio. Statues, tributes, and special heritage kits. Fans want to feel the club hasn’t lost its soul.

     In short: show ambition, honour tradition, be transparent, and put fans at the centre of the club again. Do you want me to make you a realistic step-by-step plan (like a “first 100 days as owner” blueprint), or more of a dream scenario (big signings, stadium upgrades, etc.)?

[BRANDED]

Not sure what people expected them to say.

"Tomorrow we will start building a new stadium in Essex designed for football.The stadium will be all seater. We will be sacking Graham Potter and get another hopeless, average out of work yes man in. The youth will be immediately installed into the first team. Beers will be 30p a pint of mild. "

 

[Massive Attack]

A statement / response that in all honesty is what you would expect from the board. 
Sullivan isn't selling up, Brady will remain.

Only way to make changes is to not put your hard earned cash in their pockets.

That's the conclusion both my old man and I came too end of the season. Feel good to know we're no longer contributing to their regime and won't until they've finally gone. 

[Pav BML]

Just spin and very half-hearted promises (if you can call it that) with very little concrete plans. One easy win for the stadium would be knocking that stupid wall down. Don't really understand what they mean by fan zones? Is that a dedicated singing section or something in the concourse/outside the ground? The time for getting something of a dedicated section would've been end of last season.
One of the main issues has been managerial recruitments, I see they've not mentioned those. Poor choice after poor cheap choice and giving each one far too long (have 3 games where you need to win one game, rinse and repeat). It's all short term survival and nothing more 

[greenie1]

A statement / response that in all honesty is what you would expect from the board. 
Sullivan isn't selling up, Brady will remain.

Only way to make changes is to not put your hard earned cash in their pockets.

[GBHammer63]

talks of integrating youth but we haven't seen a single one our youth players take the field in anger this season but we've seen plenty of the slow ageing plodders, and what exactly is Mark Noble doing?  

Himself no favours?

[Come On You Irons]

and what exactly is Mark Noble doing?  

Stealing a living.

[nychammer]

talks of integrating youth but we haven't seen a single one our youth players take the field in anger this season but we've seen plenty of the slow ageing plodders, and what exactly is Mark Noble doing?  

[62Hammer]

Only1billybonds: "If they were going to change, they would have done so by now."
Exactly right.
 

[Russ of the BML]

I think that statement says one thing above all others.

We failed. 

[WHU(Exeter)]

"Feedback about improving the matchday atmosphere at the stadium has been recognised"

Really?...it's been completely ignored since the day they took over, so them 'recognising' it now, is several years too late and the damage has been done. 

[Massive Attack]

And sadly not one of those rats were Brady or Sullivan.

[El Scorchio]

Only three dead rats under the floorboards today. 

[Massive Attack]

They all love the smell of Portakabin damp in the morning!

[El Scorchio]

She's actually trying to gloat about our tin pot Training Facilities by comparison to what some others have.

Yeah that's just the ultimate in political spin. Jumped off the page to me too. Like calling a fucking tiny little dingy house 'cosy' or 'homely'.

Maybe ask players like AWB, Wilson, Julio, Guido, Areola, Fullkrug how it compares to the facilities at the clubs they came from. 'Yeah I mean Carrington is nice, if you like that sort of thing, but these portakabins are just so intimate- I love it! There's nothing like the thrill of queueing to use the static bike or waiting 5 mins for the water in the showers to get hot.'

[El Scorchio]

All that said to me is 

'Member when we won a trophy? Member? Member?'

'Also please please PLEASE don't make us look bad by protesting. Please? Pleeeeease?!'

[southbankbornnbred]

It reads like several board members vomited their “thoughts” into a bucket. Which was then stirred and rinsed through the arse end of ChatGPT alongside the instructions “don’t make me sound too stupid” and “do make some cheap appeals to a fan base fans we despise”.

[southbankbornnbred]

As a full-time writer, I can tell you that parts of that statement are AI generated. Nailed on.

[Far Cough UKunt]

"We're not run like a circus anymore"

[Massive Attack]

She's actually trying to gloat about our tin pot Training Facilities by comparison to what some others have.

[claypole]

Basically have admitted that, yes our training facility are embarrassing and league 1 level but it's a safe space where players can jump out of the tumble dryers and do tik toks

[RBshorty]

Here. Fishy,Fishy,Fishy…..

[Massive Attack]

So what they've done when they decided to rip us away from our Home is to totally mismanage expectations by getting it all back to front.  What they should have done is started off managing expectations by saying, yeah we'll look to be getting regular top half finishes, strong Cup runs, European qualifications in the first 5 years of moving as they've just stated. Yep, sounds realistic and manageable and many would be on board with that to begin with.  

Then the next 5 years after that start aiming for regular top 6 finishes, trying to win 1 of the domestic Cups and try to seriously qualify for the Champions League. But no, the dopey cunts get it all arse about face and end up lying through their teeth to begin with instead raising our fanbase expections through the stratosphere. 

As for qualifying for Europe, we only managed it 3 times out of 9 seasons and 1 of those was because of a newly founded 3rd rate European Cup that suddenly materialised. Nothing close to qualifying for the Champions League in a decade since moving. With regards to League finishes in the top 6 itself, we only managed it once during the freak Covid season that had no crowds (that also helped spark our qualification in to Europe).

Just 4 times we finished inside the top 10 in 9 seasons, going on for 10 this season by the looks of it. I strongly believe today and held this view when we were still at the Boleyn that we could have achieved the same level of success, if not better had we remained. Even taking the heavy pastings at the new Stadium as some kind of barometer for instance where we rarely got tonked at the Boleyn in recent times, yet have suffered many since the move now at 'Home'.