bulldogmariner
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How inconsistant are pompey?
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The EPL thread
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marinermick said:
We were pants for 45 of the 50 mins in the 1st half, took our 2 on target chances and Andy Johnson was lucky to still be on the pitch when kicked Lucus' boot off just before half time after the earlier "tackle" / two footed assult on our new left back.
After dominating the last (EPL) away game and coming away with nothing this week was a welcome result and I can see us improving slightly on last season's 10th position if we can carry winning our home games and picking up the odd win away against weaker teams. The GBP30m claim from the whining northerner's may mean we have to sell in January so we need to be safe by then and if the appeal is won we can push on...
FFC Mariner
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Zola gets dudded,sponsors broke, owners look like going under
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/7657956.stm
Bank crisis hits Hammers spending
West Ham admit they have no money for new players after Iceland's second biggest bank, Landsbanki, collapsed.
Club chairman Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson is a major shareholder in both West Ham and Landsbanki and was chairman of the bank until he was sacked on Tuesday.
Vice-chairman Asgeir Fridgeirsson told BBC Sport: "It is very unlikely he will be willing to put in more money to buy players this January window."
He also insisted the club was not for sale, despite interest from agents.
Hammers manager Gianfranco Zola had been promised funds when he took over on 11 September.
"If we need to improve certain things I'm sure the board will back me," said Zola in September.
Later in the same month, Zola added that West Ham chief executive Scott Duxbury had told him changes in January would "not be a problem".
Zola has made it clear his first-team squad needs to be reduced ... Once this has happened and if the manager requires further players, then the club will acquire them
In a statement to the club's official website on Tuesday, Duxbury insisted funds would be available - but only if the current squad was trimmed.
"Since his appointment, Gianfranco Zola has made it quite clear that his first-team squad is too large and needs to be reduced so he can effectively coach the team," read the statement.
"Once this has happened and if the manager requires further players, then the club will acquire them.
"Mr Gudmundsson remains fully committed to the success of this football club and building on the excellent start made by Gianfranco Zola."
Duxbury and Fridgeirsson have both reaffirmed that Gudmundsson has no intention of selling the club at the moment.
"It will not have a direct impact, there is no need for him to sell West Ham," said Fridgeirsson.
A weekend newspaper report claimed Indian billionaire Anil Ambani was interested in buying West Ham and had been told the Premier League club was available for 150m.
But Fridgeirsson dismissed the suggestion the club was for sale, adding: "We have not been accepting any offers. Agents have been contacting us and we have told them we are not interested."
Any slip-ups from the team could see them arrive in the Championship because new blood will not be available
The Icelandic government took control of Landsbanki on Tuesday to prevent it collapsing and sacked the bank's board.
There are now fears the bank could become insolvent, although it released a statement saying: "Landsbanki would like to stress that the bank has not been put into liquidation but is in receivership, which gives it a temporary protection from payment of debts and obligations as they fall due."
Gudmundsson had experienced a testing few months even before the news that Landsbanki was being placed into receivership.
West Ham's shirt sponsor XL went bust in September, leaving the club with a potential shortfall of 5m.
It has since emerged that Gudmundsson was the guarantor of a 207 million Euros (163m) bank loan given to the tour operator.
Two weeks ago, an independent tribunal ruled against West Ham in the Carlos Tevez affair, leaving them liable to a 30m compensation claim from Sheffield United.
The Blades claim Tevez was not eligible to play at the end of the 2006/07 season, when he had a key role in West Ham's top-flight survival at the Yorkshire club's expense. Thats coz they cheated and should have been relegated but the EPL bottled it.
Down with the Spurs, you're going down with the Spurs (and us probably)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/7657956.stm
Bank crisis hits Hammers spending
West Ham admit they have no money for new players after Iceland's second biggest bank, Landsbanki, collapsed.
Club chairman Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson is a major shareholder in both West Ham and Landsbanki and was chairman of the bank until he was sacked on Tuesday.
Vice-chairman Asgeir Fridgeirsson told BBC Sport: "It is very unlikely he will be willing to put in more money to buy players this January window."
He also insisted the club was not for sale, despite interest from agents.
Hammers manager Gianfranco Zola had been promised funds when he took over on 11 September.
"If we need to improve certain things I'm sure the board will back me," said Zola in September.
Later in the same month, Zola added that West Ham chief executive Scott Duxbury had told him changes in January would "not be a problem".
Zola has made it clear his first-team squad needs to be reduced ... Once this has happened and if the manager requires further players, then the club will acquire them
In a statement to the club's official website on Tuesday, Duxbury insisted funds would be available - but only if the current squad was trimmed.
"Since his appointment, Gianfranco Zola has made it quite clear that his first-team squad is too large and needs to be reduced so he can effectively coach the team," read the statement.
"Once this has happened and if the manager requires further players, then the club will acquire them.
"Mr Gudmundsson remains fully committed to the success of this football club and building on the excellent start made by Gianfranco Zola."
Duxbury and Fridgeirsson have both reaffirmed that Gudmundsson has no intention of selling the club at the moment.
"It will not have a direct impact, there is no need for him to sell West Ham," said Fridgeirsson.
A weekend newspaper report claimed Indian billionaire Anil Ambani was interested in buying West Ham and had been told the Premier League club was available for 150m.
But Fridgeirsson dismissed the suggestion the club was for sale, adding: "We have not been accepting any offers. Agents have been contacting us and we have told them we are not interested."
Any slip-ups from the team could see them arrive in the Championship because new blood will not be available
The Icelandic government took control of Landsbanki on Tuesday to prevent it collapsing and sacked the bank's board.
There are now fears the bank could become insolvent, although it released a statement saying: "Landsbanki would like to stress that the bank has not been put into liquidation but is in receivership, which gives it a temporary protection from payment of debts and obligations as they fall due."
Gudmundsson had experienced a testing few months even before the news that Landsbanki was being placed into receivership.
West Ham's shirt sponsor XL went bust in September, leaving the club with a potential shortfall of 5m.
It has since emerged that Gudmundsson was the guarantor of a 207 million Euros (163m) bank loan given to the tour operator.
Two weeks ago, an independent tribunal ruled against West Ham in the Carlos Tevez affair, leaving them liable to a 30m compensation claim from Sheffield United.
The Blades claim Tevez was not eligible to play at the end of the 2006/07 season, when he had a key role in West Ham's top-flight survival at the Yorkshire club's expense. Thats coz they cheated and should have been relegated but the EPL bottled it.
Down with the Spurs, you're going down with the Spurs (and us probably)
FFC Mariner
Well-Known Member
I dunno bout that, much as I hate them their passing was just awesome against Boro.
Part_Timer
Well-Known Member
mighty potters to inflict embarasing defeat on tots
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