Irons e-mailgate: Fans have their say
To say the Hammers and Sporting Lisbon are at war is putting it mildly! David Sullivan has produced an e mail published in which an offer appears to have been made.
Sporting’s president Bruno Carvalho has hit back since and appears ready to report us to Fifa for an illegal approach.
Here’s what the fans have to say about the ongoing soap opera.
O This has started to smell like the worst sort of social media spat, or playground argument. This should be beneath both clubs. Its a very damning indictment of how both are run.
O Agree 100%. Chairmen should not be in the spotlight like this unless their egos demand it which is never a good thing.
O It always appears to be us involved in controversy. Don’t we ever learn from our mistakes. Does it happen to any other club. No.
O Truth is I doubt that the bids were all they could/should be due to the faith in Slav we have right now and Lisbon are probably half right. So are we.
O What this proves is that they were not offering enough for a quality player !!
O The amount of the offer is totally irrelevant! … After the comments from the SL side about not having received AN OFFER in any amount, this (if genuine of course) evidences that an offer was made and frankly, as an opening offer, quite a substantial one at that! Anyone who thinks that WHU should automatically pay what is the opening ask is perhaps a little at a loss of how business works!
O Absolute joke of a way to run the club. Clearly the legal action was just a threat because if this is legit you wouldn’t put your evidence in the public domain. okay, so a bid went in but didn’t need to turn this into a playground spat
O This whole situation gets embarrassing by the day , dragging our proud club’s name through the mud and as for the bid itself, pathetic
O Remember when the pleasure of watching eleven guys play in claret and blue satisfied us? I wasn’t concerned then whether Billy Bonds drank wine or what detergent brooking used to wash his socks. These days in football, like everything else around us, is drowning in excess information. I just want to get back to cheering my team
O Would be interesting to know if there is proof of more bids. I would like to see what the bidding ended on, if there was another bid.
O I’d like to see a bid direct to SL rather than a blacked out e mail and one from them saying the original bid was accepted on deadline day as claimed!!!