Following the departure of Karren Brady, references were also made to Chief Financial Officer Andrew Mollett and Executive Director Nathan Thompson.
Andy Mollett has served as West Ham United’s Chief Financial Officer for over a decade and is now set to retire at the end of the 2025–26 season.
As the club’s Chief Financial Officer since 2012, Mollett played a central role in overseeing financial operations, including the move to the London Stadium and the club’s growing commercial expansion.
Mollett’s time at West Ham United co-incides with Brady’s reign, meaning he has been with the club for around 14 years by the time of his planned retirement at the end of the 2025–26 season.
According to public records, Andy Mollett was born in February 1961, which makes him 65 years old at the time of his retirement in 2026.
Nathan Thompson joined West Ham in 2016 initially with a focus on Global Partnership Development. In 2025 he was promoted to Executive Director with a focus on commerce, marketing, digital and content. A statement from the club confirmed Thompson “stepped down with immediate effect.”
Both departures comes during a period of restructuring within the club’s senior leadership, and with no shirt sponsorship deal confirmed for the new season as the agreement with Boyle Sports ends this season and a record pre tax loss of £104.2m, as per the latest report and accounts, any incoming senior replacements will be very busy!
We may well stay up, but if we do ,the torrid state of our ownership the fact that we do not own our ground or even training ground, having to sell any half decent players we have makes it quite understandable why some are running for the hills, do they know what’s coming?……
Always a bad thing when long serving management decide to step down. Starts with one, then the rest of the team decide it would be best to finish, too.
Just one example – Alex Ferguson at Man Utd. He goes, eventually, and most of the others go at the same time. Leaving David Moyes with no continuity as he seamlessly slips into Ferguson’s shoes. No wonder that chaos (comparative) ensued.
I hope that that will not be the case with West Ham but wholesale change could well be the end of us. No need for this but the new people need to be in love with our club and not just taking a well paid job whilst either struggling with it or looking for a better opportunity.