Many have called for the pair to bring that to an end after Sullivan said following the 3-2 loss at Bournemouth: “Slaven, the players and the staff all know we have to do better.”
Gold is a regular visitor to Twitter and yesterday spoke of the the club’s relationship with Slav which he said was fine insisting there were no problems.
Now the manager has said: “I’ve a good relationship with both of them. “I don’t talk to the chairmen on a daily basis because there is no point to talk every day, but I talk after every game. Then I talk about some issues during the week about new players or renewing the players’ contract or whatever.
“But I don’t talk to the chairmen through the papers. We’ve a direct line and we talk.
“They’re locals, they are West Ham. They talk to the papers. Twitter. Instagram. That one, this one. I’m a really strong person and I have no problem with that.
“Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t love that to be in the papers but there is something in between not liking it and being worried about it, and I’m not worried.