Well if you think 15 million spread over a few years so you only get a couple of million or so a year is going to somehow drastically change your fortunes, crow all you want. I'm not too bothered about it to be honest, cant see it affecting West Ham too much. Certainly cant see it causing the panic selling of all our top players like the media have been banging on about for god knows how long. West Ham are sitting nicely in 7th place in the Premiership with some great youngsters coming through and making their mark and this payout isn't going to change that one jot. Good luck with trying to get back in the same league as us though. For your sakes, I just hope if you do, you play better than you did last time you were here.
Welcome to the forum Inquisitor, Nice to aee another WHU fan on here capable of a intelligent discussion. Once again welcome.
Regarding your post, dare i say that if you asked most rational (You'll have to search to find them) Blades then they will already be of the opinion that the sum of monies received (I have seen various reports, both media and not, with figures ranging from £10m to £25m) will more go towards securing the financial stability of the club than gaining us any instant success. As for the exact figure, i expect that noone will know the exact amount until all payments have been received and finalised as i assume that these will be visable on the financial documents issued annually. Whether or not it effects WHU or not is difficult to say, I think that much will depend on the outcome of the impending cases in iceland, if the courts can be convinced that WHU cannot be taken into account for any monies owed by your owner then i believe that you will be fine, lets face it £2m - £5m over five years isnt really gonna dent the incomings from remaining in the top flight. Hopefully we will meet up with you next season, should our playoff ambitions come to fruition, however my own personal view is that should this happen, we could be quite easily in a relegation battle once again as im not confident in the strength of our squad based on the season so far, equally if we do gain promotion, i too hope that im proven wrong and we do remain there. Either way, and regardless of what side of the "Tevez
GATE" you sit on, i for one am glad that this has now been put to bed and both clubs and fans can concentrare on their respective campaigns.
SENDO, Glad to see you back hear again, i kind of expected to see you around (Among others) following the reports over the last few days.
I'm amazed West Ham have agreed to this, and I think they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
Forget for a moment anything about Tevez, admission of guilt or fairness in football [sic], West Ham - or more accurately Gudmunsson - have done this purely finalise the value of the club, and therefore make it easier to sell - eradicating that "what if" element.
Fair enough, Gudmunsson is broke, and needs to sell off about the only asset he has left of value to pay back Kneecaps R Us back in Iceland. But at what price to the club?
Im not too surprised that WHU have agreed to this, more the fact that its taken so long to agree to this. I take your point about the reasoning, but surely in the current climate of both economy and the security of WHU, it was better to risk this than run the risk of what a tribunal could have ruled (and i think that applies to both parties). Gudmunsson is broke and everyone knows this, again surely its better to agree a set amount of money than run the "What if" risk.
I might be wasting my time on this board, and no doubt my post will be followed by a long chorus of "cheats" and "serves you right" etc, but I can't help but feel that this will only serve to label West Ham forever as a club that doesn't abide by the rules - and by the club, I mean the playing staff, and the fans.
I dont see why you would be wasting your time putting forward your views to the "Opposition", anyone who remembers you and your posts from the original saga will know that your argument, comment and rational was obviously in favour of your club, however this was always structured and contained sane counter arguments without resorting to mindless name calling and abuse. I cant speak for all, but i enjoyed the debate.
Let us not forget, that it was the likes of Brown, Duxbury & Joorabchain who brought all this about, and not your average football fan who wants nothing other than to see his (or her) team win every week.
I think from the responses to date this is an agreeable point, you didnt do it, i didnt do it etc. Now its to bed, we can all move on although im sure that it wont be forgotten for a long time.
Gudmunsson will likely, ultimately, gain by agreeing to a pay out, but the club certainly won't, and nor will us loyal fans, who will no doubt now have to endure endless newspaper articles written by lazy journalists who only bother to research half the facts, and continue to tell us over and over how Tevez scored the goal on the last day to keep us up.
I take your point, but lets not forget that a large amount of the journalism(*sp) on this very subject that has continued after the bbc and SSN have finished with thier bit has come from the camp of BIG FAT FATTY SAM, who seems content to earn his wage by re-printing the same article every other week or month. No doubt we will all be in for his words of wisdom this weekend, so lets see what he has to say on the matter. No doubt it will include the old Steve Kabba comment et al.
Good luck with the promotion chase, I hope we get to play you lot in the Prem next year (would be a goodun), but I can't help but feel McCabe will be trousering most of that cash.
It remains to be seen what happens to the money, we have development plans that have been in the wake for a long time which will probably use some of the cash, and i believe there are loans to be repaid too, so lets see. Good luck for the rest of the season, pushing for europe could do the club well, and with Zola in charge i can see it happening. Although it may be a bridge too far with the hearing that you still have to face with the laws unto themselves.
