- May 5, 2005
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Most West Ham fans seem to have two main grievances:
1) The club haven't invested in players.I just looked at 3 sites with nett spend figures over the last 5 years. West Ham are between 6th and 10th with between £80 and 150 million. While Spurs are 18-20th with a nett spend of between £2 and £16 million. So West Ham do spend money but they just spend it badly.
2) The stadium deal is unfair. They don't seem to realize they got a £500 million ?! stadium for £15 million which included adding a ~£115 million (?!) roof just for football; while they pay less in rent than the running costs. It isn't so much that they made a bad decision, it's that the government should have done more for them. Their fans on kumb constantly say the government should just give them the stadium so they can own it.
It will be interesting when the fans have to renew their season tickets. Apparently many fans were forced to sign up for two years when they moved but that will run out this year.
Their home games vs Southampton and Stoke will decide who goes down.
I think they’re more bothered about the fact that the players they’ve bought with that money have almost all been bad investments and haven’t been players any of the fans have wanted.
On the stadium point none of them think “the deal is unfair” - they just absolutely hate the stadium, because it’s shit, they hate the lie the board sold them, they hate the treatment of them as “customers” not fans, and they hate that they left Upton Park, which they loved and wanted redeveloped.