West Ham will stage an urgent upgrade on their Rush Green training centre after new boss Manuel Pellegrini made it clear he was distinctly unimpressed with the place..
As a result work will start immediately given the club holds planning permission to work on the 29-acre site.
A report in the Mail claims: ‘Pellegrini will doubtless demand more privacy than afforded to his predecessor David Moyes, who was astonished to share a changing room with 14 coaches and backroom staff.’
And it adds that a new changing area is to be built because the West Ham Ladies team — run by Jack Sullivan, the son of co-owner David — are to be located on the site.
The gym area will need to be enlarged because it cannot accommodate the first-team squad. In fact Astroturf had to be laid in the corridor outside the gym to provide more room.
As a result larger dressing rooms and an extension of the catering facilities will be required and the Chilean boss wants under-soil heating installed. During the cold snap last winter and in early spring, Moyes was unable to use the pitches
Pelle wants everything in place to make sure he has the best chance of success and fair play to the board because they have given it to him , there is now no room for failure the futures bright the futures claret and blue!! Lol COYI !!!!!
I remember Moyes saying in some interview at the end of the season that if he stayed as manager a few changes would be need to made. Upgrading Rush green was one of the things he mentioned needed to be done. So Sullivan listened obviously and to be fair to him, has made a few changes. Moyes included.
Good news. We are far behind, you only have to look at the club from North London’s training facilities to see that.
For a premier league ground, our facilities should be top notch. Well worth the investment.
When you look at the training facilities of some other clubs (Spurs, Chelsea, Brighton, Liver-pooh and soon Leicester, to name a few) it really is embarrasing how tin-pot ours is.
Perhaps Tripp’s got a spare £50mill lying around as I think it needs a little more than an extra portakabin and a lick of paint.