Suggestions that Graham Potter, Kyle Macaulay, and the West Ham recruitment team are at loggerheads with the Hammers board have been denied.
All of those involved in recruitment at West Ham are working tirelessly, night and day, to bring in new faces before the transfer window closes on 1 September.
C&H have been told the manager, as always, has final veto on all signings and is not afraid to use it.
Both Potter and Macaulay are known to be fully aware of all transfer dealings within the club and are consulted on every aspect. Potter is known to have negotiated hard in his interviews with David Sullivan and Karren Brady to secure a transfer budget and new recruitment staff.
Potter is under no illusion and knows he must operate within West Ham’s financial means—both in terms of the transfer budget and the annual wage bill.
Everyone is collaborating together to achieve what is best for the club in the set time frame. Time will tell, of course, as the transfer window enters its final month. But as a West Ham source has said since June: “Judge us at the end of the transfer window.”
Obviously Potter used his veto when insisting we sign Mads Hermanson.
I simply do not believe this article. It’s just a shame that plotter is not strong enough to say ‘enough is enough’ and quit.
Maybe they should be working smarter. This bs phrase of tirelessly working day and night is just empty words that they think fans are too thick too see throughb
In that case just to be clear, 2024/25 Summer transfer window, score a generous 3! 2024/25 January window, score a generous 1! To-date, thanks to a Sullivan, Salthouse, Wilson debacle and a club without principles, standard’s or ethos a score of minus 2 and that’s only because of the magic man to compensate for another wretched window!
Would be interested to know what transfer budget he did negotiate as so far it seems to be about zero without player sales. But fair enough, let’s wait until the end of the window to see if our cynicism is well judged.
Exactly my thoughts, potter must be a poor negotiator as the board gave him no budget. Last year, jlo, Sullivan and Steidten were apparently working well together. Until it all came out they didn’t.
Let’s see Sean ,, I am not one bit convinced the board has backed Potter but will, no evidence of backing him !
Judge us at the end of the window, so the new signings have missed the whole of pre season with us and then take weeks to catch up with everyone. I remember Fergie used to say “Get your business done early” for that exact reason. We had a long time to identify players in the positions that we needed them. Why do we always leave it so late? Cannot wait for the day Sullivan is gone and our scattergun approach finally ends. We are the comedy act of the transfer market.
If we are working day and night We ain’t very good at it are we Nothing to show for it
“Potter knew what he signed up for” that’s what you said isnt it Sean?
I am worried. We will end up with nothing
All these players we are supposedly negotiating with, how can we if we do not have the money to buy them
I think Potter must’ve fed up with this shambles of a club.
He was promised so much but nothing is happening
I bet he wished he never came to this very poorly run club.
Such a shame with such a massive fan base, and should be able to draw top players and compete with the top clubs
Have been a fan for over 50 years and unless we get 2-3 more signings in, I fear the worst
We will have to wait to the end of the window, but right now it’s just one new starter signed, a reasonable bench freebie and a long past his best Salthouse special. Hardly Potters exciting summer so far. A keeper and central midfield athlete who can press and pass are essential, and Josh Brownhill isnt an answer. So far 1/10 for our DoF, let’s see if his night and day efforts improve things this month, but again we start undercooked.
no he must operate under Sullivans means and that is if you are a manager he wants and has signed he will give you silly money and let you waste it on over the hill slow injury prone players if you are a manager and he did not want you but felt pushed into signing you then only he will decide what player we buy regardless of what the manager wants….he is like a child who has never been told no….until Sullivan leaves our club will never progress……we moved so we could compete how does that sound now eh/ anyone had the sack to ask him eh? wheres that ambition eh? come on Mr Sullivan lets hear it?.