Quite how much choice West Ham United’s most valuable ‘assets‘ will have over their own futures remains to be seen. Newcastle’s 3-1 win and Tottenham’s resurgence means the Irons are braced for eviction from the top tier of English football which could likely be confirmed tonight if the Spuds grab a point at Stamford Bridge.
Many of the players who have failed to keep the club in the Premier League this season will be sought-after summer transfers, as the vulture start to pick over the bones of the West Ham United squad.
Crseyncio Summerville, Mateus Fernandes, Jarrod Bowen, Pablo Felipe, Taty Castellanos, El Hadji Malick Diouf, Aaron Wan Bissaka and Dinos Mavropanos have been the subject of stories we’ve covered recently regarding summer bids -and today’s teamtalk.com speak speaks of a ‘nine player fire sale”
It would be hard to blame any of them for wanting a move in any case – with the alternative a 50% salary cut – but with West Ham in such financial peril, there’s likely to be no place for sentimentality from the club board room.
Newcastle have already been suggested as Bowen’s summer destination
Supporters’ hopes that Jarrod Bowen will elect to stay ignores the club’s balance sheets. A fifty million fee for Bowen will likely be be too tempting for beleaguered Sullivan to turn down after his mismanagement has led to £190million of transfer fee payments still outstanding – plus the small matter of £105 million loss from last year.
Bowen stands on the balance sheets at ‘zero’ after six years at the club, so any fee received would be pure profit– and would go a big way to rescuing the Irons’ accounting from meltdown. According to talkSPORT’s Darren Bent, Bowen should pack up and head for northern climes in any case:
“For me, the logical move for Jarrod Bowen, if he was to leave West Ham and stay in the Premier League, would be Newcastle,” Bent said.
A sale of that figure would go some way to helping the Hammers get out of their impending financial black hole, with The Guardian reporting the club will need to raise over £100m to avoid breaching either Premier League or EFL financial rules.”
Time for Hammers fans to face the bruising prospect of a future without their best-loved star since Mark Noble hung up his boots.
Lovely piece Ron Sexton I think you’ll agree we’ve had heart break many times before but over the last few seasons our club has been destroyed. 60 years a fan myself , son and his 3 boys also. I bet sullivan is blissfully unaware of what real fans think .
He’s not getting any younger do 50 millin bid should be taken if it arrives
Sullivan will sell players as long as he gets his money to cover the debts he is responsible for.
If he had any guts he would get out now but he is totally narcissistic no one can second guess him.
His first appointment got us relegated his second got us to the playoffs we have never had a first second or third manager choice best season was under Slaven who gave us a wonderful last season at the Boleyn.
Been a fan for over 75 years and my Father and Grandfather before me my Grandfathers Sister married a West Ham Manager ( Charlie Payter ) look him up not 100% sure Bubbles was introduced.
My Son and Daughter played for West Ham an honoured to have met and spoken at length with Bobby Moore Geoff Hurst Billy Bonds ( a warrior but quite and had the privilege to spend an hour and bit with John Lyall and Ronnie Boyce.All finals except 1922 attended season tickets in three stands and will be there god willing on Sunday. My family loves the club and the club greats as for the players again let us down our fans know when a player tries his best so I owe them nothing.
The most frustrating game was the last game against Stoke Bobby in goal our goalkeeper concussed and still we made a game of it.The VAR decision on Sunday was so frustrating three penalties before the foul .
So many fans so happy then destroyed.
The fans will always be great and they will always have my support they are real fans that very few have.
No surprise to see this as a scenario.
Spurs lose to Chelsea and then it’s up to Moyes to be our saviour COY !
Well, this is a fine mess you’ve got us into, Mr Sullivan!
Except we’ll be in a different league so the “pure profit” is irrelevant for FFP