West Ham - Has the bubble burst ?

[TheChosenOne]

Trying to ship out their
high wage earners !

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article3890259.ece

Amazing.

 

[don1]

its burst a long time ago but they havent figured it out yet :wink:

 

[Andy]

It'll be even worse when they finish even further down the league next year and i couldn't be happier for them, I can't stand their ****ish fans.

 

[yanno]

"West Ham United have offered Fredrik Ljungberg £3million to leave Upton Park after one season... West Ham could make similar compensation offers to Lucas Neill and Luís Boa Morte, the forward, who are among the higher-earning players. "

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

What a bunch of total idiots. P*** Up and Brewery come to mind. Those Icelanders make the Mobski look like rocket scientists...

If they offered us £5 million to take Ferdinand off their hands, I'd say 'No thanks!'

If they offered us Ashton for free, I'd say 'Thank You Very Much!'

 

[Bonjour]

£75k/wk, 4 year contract for a 31 year old Ljungberg.

That's genius.

 

[the_king]

No suprise that Boa Morte is going, one of the worst players i've ever seen.

 

[robbiesavagehasbreasts]

No suprise that Boa Morte is going, one of the worst players i've ever seen.

He used to be better, when he was at Fulham. Don't know what happened to him, but he has been truly awful this season.

 

[the_king]

He used to be better, when he was at Fulham. Don't know what happened to him, but he has been truly awful this season.

Agreed, Fulham didn't have too bad a team back then, Boa, Steed, Van Der Sar, Saha...etc.

Seen alot of WHU games this year and he's been terrible!
Wern't too bad on the weekend though...

 

[paulspursman]

how they didnt see this coming i do not know

 

[yanno]

West Ham are in danger of becoming the new Leeds.

I look forward to learning new details of their crazy mismanagement. After all, we learnt that Leeds, rather than buying the goldfish in their lobby for a couple of quid, actually rented the goldfish for a monthly service fee from a specialist fish company... mg:

 

[yanno]

In terms of how not to run a football club, the Spammers are currently neck-and-neck with the Barcodes...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-reward-Premier-League-flop-Hammers-door.html

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£6m...That's Ljungberg's reward for being a Premier League flop as Hammers show him the door

Freddie Ljungberg's disastrous spell at Upton Park is over after only 12 months as West Ham agreed to pay a staggering £6million to get him off their spiralling wage billl.
As the full extent of Ljungberg's incredible salary details emerged - he is paid £85,000 a week and had an option for another year if he made just 15 appearances this season - West Ham are still suffering from the aftershock of one of the most expensive mistakes in British football history.

In total, he cost them approximately £13m, taking into account transfer fee, wages and his pay-off - working out at over £500,000 per game, following 25 appearances for the club last season in which he made little impact.

West Ham have yet to announce Ljungberg's departure, but the deal has been agreed and he has been told he is now effectively a free agent. Ljungberg, 31, believes he can still play at the top in England, Italy or Spain and has asked his agent to find him a new club.

The Sweden midfielder was due to earn £8.84m over the next two years at West Ham and initially informed Hammers chief executive Scott Duxbury that he had no intention of reaching a settlement.

Despite being told by manager Alan Curbishley that he would not be playing for the first team this season, the injury-prone midfielder told the club he would sit tight and see out the remaining two years on his mega-bucks deal. He has not been part of the pre-season programme and is understood to be back home in Sweden 'weighing up a number of options'.

It is an incredible fall from grace for Ljungberg. He was a member of Arsenal's 'Invincibles' who won the Premier League in 2004 without losing a game and was recently voted the Gunners' 11th best player of all time.

The Hammers signed him from their London rivals for £3m last summer, but he showed no signs of his Arsenal form and his season ended early when he broke a rib in a collision with Newcastle defender Steven Taylor.

Although Ljungberg recovered to play for Sweden at Euro 2008, he announced his retirement from international football after the tournament in order to prolong his career in the Premier League.

 

[srups34]

I think they are in big trouble, is their court case decision due in September also?

 

[PT]

He used to be better, when he was at Fulham. Don't know what happened to him, but he has been truly awful this season.

They were playing him as a left back unbelievably. his main asset is speed and partial to a decent cross.

 

[Bonjour]

This was dismissed as bollocks by West Ham fans back in May.

Wonder what they think of it now. :think:

 

[yanno]

The more I think about it, the more preposterous this story gets.

"Freddie - here's £6 million quid. Now f*ck off!"

Meanwhile, Curbishley's equally overpaid sicknotes - Dyer, Bellamy etc - are already queuing up for the treament room. And Lucas Neill, who the Spammers are paying at least £60k per week (the price of getting him to turn down Liverpool), is refusing to f*ck off to Turkey...

 

[MrWoolley]

:lol: And they have Ben Thatcher on trial

 

[Bill_Oddie]

My mates a spammer and he's shitting it for this season. Even more than my Boro supporting mate. Especially as they've got Wigan 1st up and can see the sorrt of loss that will set in the rot for the whole campaign.

Think West Ham Vs Boro Vs Bolton is such a good battle this season, it may even end up that one of Stoke or Hull can do the impossible and manage to stay up.