Sky News (not Sky Sports!) have just reported via their City Editor that West Ham will be sold to David Sullivan over the weekend. The deal is said to be worth £100 million and agreement has been reached with the bankers who control the club’s debts. It seems from the report that he would be buying 100% of the equity, rather than the 50% which was reported initially. At least, that was my interpretation of what was said.
I really don’t like the sound of this, either. But better Sullivan than Cellino…
Absolulety Lee if i had choice therenot for me,but i've always had feeling it would be them.
There's plenty of time left in the window no major deals are done in the first couple weeks, most are done in the last few days so if we can have it resolved by early next week we'll have enough time to get some new blood in.
well they may not be the most exciting of the interested parties
but they are the sfaest, and after all the crap we’ve had I’ll settle for that
Plus him and Gold are worth about 600m each so is not like they’re struggling for cash
hopefully being attthe team they love may mean the purse strings area bit looser than at brum
end of the day if this is right, we have owners that care about the club, can at the least stop any sales and provide some cash for new signings
ok it’s not Man City or Chelsea, and it never would have been, but I’ll take them over what we have now a million times over
Some of the other bids were potentially more exciting, but at the same time more potential to go wrong
also don’t forget they owned part of West Ham in the early 90′s pre Brum
Wanted to take us over but Cearns wouldn’t sell because of the porn connection and we got saddled with uncle Terry instead
these guys honestly care abouut the club (TF does too) but at the same time between them G&S are worth over 1000 million quid
how much they’re likely to spend on us is anynes guess, but they ARE a safe pair of hands
even if it’s just not having to sell our best players, and the days of financial turmiol over, I’d settle for that after all the crap we’ve had
to clarify re the other bids
TF loves the club, is a personality, entrpeneur etc, but his net worth is not enough so he’s either doiing through borrowing, or has a backer we don’t know (ala Lotus, depite reports he’s not the owner, just the boss)
Cellino – dodgy track record in Italy, both as chairman (28 managers in 12 years) and business man (2 fraud convictions) says consortium behind him – well who are they
Intermarket – same thing say consortium, could be 4 billionaires, could be Terry Brown and Kia Joorbachian
without knowing those 3′s true source of funds I’m not so sure I want to take the risk
I just hope not. Birmingham don't seem to want them back, do they.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news and i hope i am wrong but the unknown intermarket group could consist of Michael Tabor the racehorse owner that tried to buy the club among other familiar but unwanted names from the past.
Its Tony that gets my vote with the porn pair as second choice.
Up The Hammers and lets hope we notch a result against villa as its my birthday today and the girlfriend has bought me cable tv
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I would prefer Tony Fernandes because he is a supporter….but the only worry is i really can't remember the last true supporter to bring success as a chairman.
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pete…be fair they wanted WHU, from the moment they sold brum. They only looked at other clubs, incase they could not get us and that was sensible if they wanted to stay in football. Give them a chance, if we can now bring in some new players over the next week it will give everyone a boost. They are not going to spend 100 mill and then risk relegation, by not investing in the players we need.