Lucas Neill is now reported by Sky Sports to be in talks with Sunderland.
Bye then.
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Anyone know anything about this Hungarian player, Margos, that came on for the reserves against Bishop Stortford?
Perhaps a new owner could get the current crew to release funds as part of any takover deal? Who knows? Yes, the danger is that we get a bad start, perform badly and are forced to panic buy in January. The January window is not a good time for desperate clubs, as we all know from 2006/07!
However, that is the very worst case scenerio, I think that we have the players currently to avoid a struggle and stay in the top half.
I think we need Clark Kent!
This could very well be why we haven’t seen much transfer action so far. Other than youngsters, what else has really gone on?
SJ I went to every game 85-86 season and the ambition of our board to recruit was to sell macavennie,cottee and mark ward give us a decent owner before we are dead and why do we employ a man utd supporter called scott duxberry to destroy our wonderful club cos he could not lie straight in bed !
Guys just a quick thought in the sudden interest in the club from the US. The fact that the story breaks the same day that there is a meeting with Straumur and their creditors is a bit to much of a coincidence for me.
BG has made significant moves to reduce and repay his debts in the last few weeks. He has offered to settle his debts to his largest creditor Kaupthing at around 40% of the total ammount.
All of BGs debts are co-signed by Thor and if he cant pay then they will fall to Thor to settle. To put it bluntly Thor has absolutely no intention of letting that happen. The case they put was that due to the collapse of the country’s currency the real value of the debts is castly lower than the book ammount. Thor has the stroke to engineer a story in the press abuot US investors. He owns Actavis one of the largest generic drugs companies in the US and his investment company Novator has proven a profitable haven for US money in the wake of the banking sector collapse. The fact that the stories centre around Clark Hunt smacks of a little too perfect for me. You couldnt hand pick a better buyer for our club.
Also why would the figure be considerably higher than the previous valuation placed on the club of £105M. His grandad LH Hunt would turn in his grave if he knew his grandson was paying over the odds for an asset, it’s simply not the Hunt way.
Straumur will reach an agreement with its creditors and keep moving towards November when it is returned to private ownership and a lot of things will become clearer. BG is a wiley old fox and his son earned the nickname The Karelian Bear Dog in Russia for his tenacious business style.
My guess is that Dux and Nani were told to hold the purse strings until after the creditors meeting and to exhaust all loan options before money was made available. CB Holdings positon has not changed since it took over the club and its creditors were on board at that point so this is unlikely to change.
BG asked to be declared bankrupt in order to force his creditors to accept a lower ammount to settle his debts. Bankrupcy is not an absolute state simply a mechanism that is used by the ultra rich when times get tough. Donald Trump did the exact same thing in the 90′s and emerged from it to become even more wealthy.
From a financial stand point why would CB’s creditors look for the club to be sold now for £120M when in a better climate it could be worth considerably more. A couple of years is a blink of an eye in world finance, these people deal in 20 and 30 year bonds this is very small period of time when you consider the upside to the club in a few years when the youngsters we have are terrorising the Premier League.
Aussie Graham, yeah 1985-86 was a great, and for the Hammers, a unique campaign. I think I only missed a handful of games myself that season. But for Heyshel we would have been in Europe the following year. That might have given the extra impetus to strengthen the squad, who knows?
Totally agree with you about the old board at West Ham Utd PLC. That a controlling regime could waste the wonderful possibilities of the Moore, Hurst & Peters era, fail to build on the success of 1985-86 and then sell the Ferdinand, Cole, Defoe, et al, generation is nothing short of criminal! No arguments there at all.
As for Duxbury, I have never seen him as a Machiavelli. In that we differ in our opinions I think.
CH, I’ll say it again…you are nail on the head. although, I would like to hear your thoughts on the chapter 15 in Manhattan courts. West Ham IS an asset. Thus, the protection. It is impossible to go into administration as you lot call it. However, there have been stories here about Hunt Sports waiting to see how the Glazer family got on with owning EPL clubs etc. Obviously, these fellas are in better positions financially then the Liverpool bunch. If Liverpool fans knew the whole story behind that lot, they’d flip their stolen wigs. There very well could be something in it. Then again, you could be right about Thor. Thor, we have been told time and time again, is the real footy fan. this could have all been very well planned out….all the assets could have been planned out. CH, is correct about biz plans taking ages especially internationally.
However, it is not a shock that an asset can be sold on during chapter 15. That’s common. And for Trump you say, try 12+ bankruptcies. One hotel goes to bankruptcy, 3 more pop up!
So that being said, it still doesn’t make sense to me why an asset would be led to possibly fail? Chapter 15 also means, biz as usual. So why no biz as usual?
Bye Lucas,
We dont need Him anyway as He is to slow for 90 mins in Prem. Having said that do we trust a yougster in that role of left back! One paper suggested we play Berami there?? Striker and left stil needed. If Lucas came back no way should Captain US AGAIN.
I don’t want to say I told you so, re Neill, but I told you so!!!
No interest in our club, just his bank balance.
On another subject. Last night a West Ham XI featuring Stech, Spence, Ngala,Eyjolffson,Fry, Payne, Nouble, Savio & Edgar, got turned over by Bishop’s Stortford.
Considering this is the cream of our youth players it begs the question, Are they good enough?
As an Australian to Lucas….F### off, who needs you! Too fat, too slow! C’mon you Irons!
I dont know whats worse, our failure to sign a couple of strikers or the column inches afforded Lucas Neill with, will he stay or will he go! As an Australian, Lucas, p*** off. Lets talk about more important subjects
Come on you Irons
rejected £45k from us!!!????
that is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard, i’m sure the extra few grand a week and signing on fee will make him so much happier the greedy bastard
I agree with earlier comments, lets not waste time rambling on about wasters.
Lucas who?
Who cares about Neil, we have spector or Faubert who is apparently more preffered in the position.
As for Ashton what the f**k is going on. Stay or go, i no longer care but just get on with it.
We need to move players out before signing anyone, we knew that. but last day is coming near we need decision made
come in Dux, zola or clarkey do something
The talk on the sky sports transfer page for WHUFC are full of rumours linking us with lots of players for our defence; I thought we needed a striker or two? Lucas – no way back p*ss off to Sunderland. But we do need firepower up front and time is running out!
another day another lack of transfers,i am relly getting worried now.duxbury seems just another full of bull.cole will get a few goals but not many,i hate to be the merchant of doom and gloom but i think we may struggle this season.with no goals in the side i think we will be lucky to finish halfway up unless of course we get a couple of decent strikers.i would hate to see all zolas hard work last season to get us playing great football go to waste but i really think that we have no money to spend.i guess its the same old story eh