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Is he abandoning them for Everton again, then?

 

Appalled by the bit that reads:

"Under its lease to use the London Stadium, for which it pays a basic rate of £2.5m in rent per year, West Ham is due to receive 40% of E20’s naming rights revenue over £4m a year."

Firstly the Spammers keep on saying that they shouldn't pay any "normal" running charges for the stadium because they are tenants, and now we find that they are to benefit from the sponsoring of the stadium that they are only tenants of. Secondly, as if it wasn't already blatantly the case, the fact that the sponsorship revenue would exceed the tenancy costs, we are paying the Spammers to be there. This is surely the most ludicrous stadium deal there has ever been?

 

If you thought that was appalling, you probably shouldn't read this: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...stadium-business-rates-taxpayer-a7747346.html

 

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40011682

Martin O'Neill's creative way of getting around the 'seasoned international' rule.

 

Declan Rice you say?

Now it all makes sense. Seasoned. Hmm. dg

 

Pablo Zabaleta has announced his retirement from football in this emotional post:

 

They can say goodbye to scraping 1-0 wins against Spurs at their
dump with him in their back four.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/west-ham-co-owner-david-10488854

On the face of it a decent enough act, until you notice that this only made the media because the Porn Brothers son PR'd it!
****ing classless through and through!!

 

I suffered a 'moral paradox' when I heard about this. Felt a tinge of genuine respect then hated myself for feeling the tinge. So I kicked a cat whilst wearing a pair of fluffy slippers, just to restore balance to my internal compass.

 

I just laughed and thanked the miserable ****ers for ALMOST making me feel some respect for them but then ****ing it up!! LOL

 

Sorry to "burst you bubble" so to speak, it was Steve the homeless guy that notified the press the next day. He was interviewed as one of the first on site to give aid and mentioned it in the interview, it just rolled from there.

 

Correct. Which is why I had to source a pair of fluffy slippers with which to give an innocent cat a good kicking.

 

No bubbles burst (and good pun by the way). He may well have mentioned it first, but don't think for a minute the act was selfless. If it had been, it would have been made anonymously.
I'll save my money on slippers and vets bills lol

 

West Ham gave a temporary place to stay and some money to a down-on-his luck 35-year-old? Again?

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Honestly though, I don't really care if they did it for publicity. At least they did something decent, for once.
Fair play to them.

 

They've become the new QPR, haven't they? Snapping up washed-out has-beens on ludicrous wages in the hope of coaxing a swansong out of them.

Hopefully their emulation of Rangers will go the distance and end in relegation.

 

Apparently they have offered Barkley £140,000 per week - now that's just ludicrous apparently they are rivaling us for his services - not that price they are not!

 

Well, seeing as they have low overheads on all other aspects of business they can probably afford him!!

 

They are paying £2.5m per year on their stadium. They received at least £120m last season from the prem league alone, then there is TV money, merchandise money etc so there is no way that they can not pay for him.

 

I didn't go into detail as the figures just make so feckin' angry!!! So thanks a bunch, RCL!

 

As I mentioned in the transfer thread, Barkley is on £48k p/w at Everton, so why he believes he is worth triple that means he's either a mercenary or hopelessly deluded.

There is a third option available, but I'm not going to mention it as that would mean that there's a Venn diagram of me and Kelvin McKenzie, and the spot in the middle is Ross Barkley - and like buggery I'm mentioning that!