Slamming the board on this issue is utterly crazy

Nobody has any argument with the fact that by and large the summer signings were rubbish…it’s a given and has now been done to death – we move on and loo

k to the summer window.

However, some of the outrage I read on Twitter is totally totally ridiculous and the fact that the club became the seventh biggest spenders in the league anyway is always overlooked.

Just read through a few of the comments directed at David Gold who has become the face of the club on that particular social network and you are confronted with such as:

O  in this day and age £20 mill gets you bang average , spend big or go

O Now fans are beginning to realise why the owners are so hated at Birmingham. History repeating itself

O so you’re just gonna keep the money in your own pockets and not spend it then?

Remember when we last spent big under the Icelandics – let’s not go there – but now the same old ill informed nonsense gets shouted from the rooftops presumably from people whose only attempt at running anything is the bath.

OK ,we could go on forever but let me take a single issue which in my opinion shows the stupidity of this keyboard warrior crap.

The board now finds itself being knocked for organising loans with a ‘to buy’ fee at the end of it – a policy described by some as cheap loans!

Just as a reminder Manuel Lanzini was one of them so obviously it really is a shocking policy!

Yeah you bet I’m being sarky and for those who wanna try to argue let’s look at Slav’s men Gokhan Tore and Simone Zaza who arrived on the same basis.

Both proved utterly useless and both were the manager’s picks. Imagine what might have happened had had bought them outright – they’d still be here with no end to their stay in sight.

It’s a sensible policy and one that works from both ends – Lanzini, who would have cost a fortune and could have been nicked from us, and the other two who would still be on the staff stinking the place out.

I have absolutely no doubt that some will be saying “Oh that so and so Southon and ClaretandHugh are in the board’s pocket” when they read this.

On this issue yes we most certainly are and we’d sooner be there than lumbered with the likes of Tore and Zaza whilst delighting that we have Lanzini.

Any repeats of last summer’s transfer window this time around will bring a far different response from us but to criticise people, and be thoroughly offensive whilst doing so, is something that needs calling out here and now!

As for selling the club to a a major conglomerate or whatever – err there are no bids and never have been unless you wanted your club to become Red Bull West Ham!!!!!

COYI