DS: “We don’t have a penny to spend on wages”

David Sullivan has told Sky Sports News “Unless someone leaves the club who is on the wage bill at this moment and time we don’t have a penny to spend on wages. We would only let fringe players go or if someone made an offer we couldn’t refuse. We are not going to selling players for £10m or £20m, we are a non selling club.”

On the possibility of Andy Caroll leaving West Ham, Sullivan said “Andy  is doing a great job, he is part of the club and part of the team and   I think it is very unlikely he would want to go anywhere. Realistically he has got a fiance and baby in this area, whether he would go back to Newcastle, to go to his home, I don’t there is any club he would go to other then Newcastle. If Sunderland or another club offered him more money I don’t think he would go there, he would have no interest in going there.”

Looking to the Summer transfer window Sullivan added: “Foreign players come to England for the money and because their wives want to live in London. Going forward we’re going to sign some top players and being in London is a big factor.”

David Sullivan was speaking at an event to publicise the release of a film he has produced called ‘The Fall of the Krays’. The follow-up to ‘The Rise of the Krays’ is released in cinemas and for download on 1 January.