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LeroyLeroy Rosenior believes David Sullivan will be regretting his Charlie Austin comments declaring: “He’d have been better off simply leaving it at the fact we can’t afford the £15 million!”

And the popular former Iron said: “I have to say I as pretty amazed when I read the remarks. There’s nothing wrong in saying he’s too expensive and you can get away with explaining he’s had a failed medical.

“But the rest of it was all a bit questionable and it’s really no surprise there’s been a row break out over it.”

Leroy’s own playing days ended in his late 20s with a degenerative knee injury and he played in pain for much of his career with the final five years being “absolute agony”.

He said: “I don’t think anybody outside of a few will know about any injury problems to particular players, and it’s really best not to go there if there’s any uncertainty.

“David is known as a man who says what he thinks. But I reckon if he could go back he wouldn’t go near the subject again. It’s all best forgotten I think.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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  • bubs says:

    This is what I have been trying to say,just be honest DS and DG don’t try and bull ****e us,
    If we are not going to spend the money stop letting the fans dream and go and buy what we can afford if that is Jelivic or Mitchu we can debate the good or bad about those players
    Maybe some supporters would have been happy with Jimanez if they knew Remy or Austin were not in our price bracket and then you would not make yourself look stupid and bring our club into disbute,
    Stop using your kids to do your dirty work

  • bubs says:

    Now Burnley out bid us for players,what’s next,

    • TysonM says:

      Lol,yeah they got Andre Gray for 7m didnt they.Thats another the media can cross off our wanted list 😉

  • GW says:

    So we’ve got a chairman who can’t speak without putting his foot in it and a overpriced prima donna forward who can’t put his foot in a shoe without injuring it, another day in the life of being a Irons fan… What next DG telling us to go and buy some Nytol and not sleep for a week because we’re going to announce a new signing or the new look Kevin Nolan has developed the skills and stamina of Lionel Messi…

  • whambam says:

    I reckon the club do have the money, they just fancy him sitting on the bench, I said way back on here that we will get a loan signing short term, that will happen unless Lanzinio, o, o, rips defences apart, which I reckon could happen,

  • whambam says:

    Don’t, lol

  • canchaz says:

    Nobody had to believe the incessant rumours and it wasn’t DS that created them, neither was it his job to dissuade people from believing them.
    Maybe it was this endless clamour to sign another expensive and maybe crocked striker, that got to him and he went farther than he should
    This was, a created story about Austin, that like so many during transfer time, has died on the vine.
    And, as I ‘ve posted so many times, everything Slav said and did, suggested this was not the route the club had planned to go.

  • Baz Brushe says:

    Yeah we are all only too aware of what you have posted some many times Telepathic Canchaz,oh Great One,reader of Slavens mind 😉

  • jameshackneyhammer35 says:

    Don’t want Austin anyway, the truth is even Charlie knows he’s overrated…

    Pato would work though…

    This Galatasaray geezer looks prolific.. why not get him Slav??

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