Post by QPR Report on Feb 4, 2010 9:08:25 GMT
Hope no one gets any ideas! (Although using Silkiman and McKay might not be the best way for QPR to go!)
"...It's understood that West Ham's vice-chairman, Karren Brady, is carrying out swingeing cuts at the club which is set to include the departure or technical director Gianluca Nani who was not involved in any of the transfer dealings that took place during January. Instead Sullivan helped negotiate the deals while using agents Barry Silkman and Willie McKay.
"We have to cut some overheads, staff who are on the administration side and support staff for the team and work down the contracts we have inherited which are terrible," Sullivan said.
Club doctors, technical staff and even West Ham's football in the community officer are under threat. Of the playing contracts, he said: "We cannot rip them up under football league rules, you are stuck with these contracts. We have to let them run down or do deals with players."
Telegraph
£60,000-a-week Kieron Dyer should retire, says West Ham chairman David Sullivan
West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan has said Kieron Dyer should consider retiring from football.
By Jason Burt
Published: 7:00AM GMT 04 Feb 2010
The 31 year-old midfielder has been plagued with injuries throughout his career, and particularly since he moved to West Ham United, who he joined in the summer of 2007 for £6 million.
His latest setback is a persistent hamstring injury which means that the former England international has played just 18 times for West Ham, who have struggled with a crippling wage bill, having also broken his leg soon after moving to the club.
West Ham have been sympathetic but there is a growing frustration at the club that Dyer is earning £60,000-a-week and they have had little return for their investment.
There was an inquiry from Ipswich Town, Dyer's first club, which was encouraged by West Ham but it's understood the player has been demanding a £1 million pay-off. Even then it's unclear whether he could pass a medical.
Sullivan, who took control of West Ham earlier this month with business partner David Gold, has now suggested that Dyer should retire as part of a series of drastic cost-cutting measures being undertaken at the Premier League club.
Sullivan, who has spoken out about the inflated contracts awarded at West Ham by the former chairman Eggert Magnusson, did not name Dyer. He said: "There is one player who hardly plays at all who might have to accept retirement."
Sullivan went on to add that the player earned "£60-70,000 a week".
Unquestionably he was referring to Dyer while he went on to talk about the recent retirement of Dean Ashton who was forced out of the game by his chronic ankle problems. "There is one player who has accepted retirement but we have to give him one year's money," Sullivan said.
It's understood that West Ham's vice-chairman, Karren Brady, is carrying out swingeing cuts at the club which is set to include the departure or technical director Gianluca Nani who was not involved in any of the transfer dealings that took place during January. Instead Sullivan helped negotiate the deals while using agents Barry Silkman and Willie McKay.
"We have to cut some overheads, staff who are on the administration side and support staff for the team and work down the contracts we have inherited which are terrible," Sullivan said.
Club doctors, technical staff and even West Ham's football in the community officer are under threat. Of the playing contracts, he said: "We cannot rip them up under football league rules, you are stuck with these contracts. We have to let them run down or do deals with players."
Two players whose futures at West Ham are in doubt are Robert Green and Matthew Upson. Both have less than 18 months left on their contracts and have stalled on talks over extensions to their deals.
It appears that both are likely to leave in the summer with Green, apparently, keen to try and find an overseas club while Upson is determined to play in the Champions League, if possible.
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/westham/7149621/60000-a-week-Kieron-Dyer-should-retire-says-West-Ham-chairman-David-Sullivan.html
"...It's understood that West Ham's vice-chairman, Karren Brady, is carrying out swingeing cuts at the club which is set to include the departure or technical director Gianluca Nani who was not involved in any of the transfer dealings that took place during January. Instead Sullivan helped negotiate the deals while using agents Barry Silkman and Willie McKay.
"We have to cut some overheads, staff who are on the administration side and support staff for the team and work down the contracts we have inherited which are terrible," Sullivan said.
Club doctors, technical staff and even West Ham's football in the community officer are under threat. Of the playing contracts, he said: "We cannot rip them up under football league rules, you are stuck with these contracts. We have to let them run down or do deals with players."
Telegraph
£60,000-a-week Kieron Dyer should retire, says West Ham chairman David Sullivan
West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan has said Kieron Dyer should consider retiring from football.
By Jason Burt
Published: 7:00AM GMT 04 Feb 2010
The 31 year-old midfielder has been plagued with injuries throughout his career, and particularly since he moved to West Ham United, who he joined in the summer of 2007 for £6 million.
His latest setback is a persistent hamstring injury which means that the former England international has played just 18 times for West Ham, who have struggled with a crippling wage bill, having also broken his leg soon after moving to the club.
West Ham have been sympathetic but there is a growing frustration at the club that Dyer is earning £60,000-a-week and they have had little return for their investment.
There was an inquiry from Ipswich Town, Dyer's first club, which was encouraged by West Ham but it's understood the player has been demanding a £1 million pay-off. Even then it's unclear whether he could pass a medical.
Sullivan, who took control of West Ham earlier this month with business partner David Gold, has now suggested that Dyer should retire as part of a series of drastic cost-cutting measures being undertaken at the Premier League club.
Sullivan, who has spoken out about the inflated contracts awarded at West Ham by the former chairman Eggert Magnusson, did not name Dyer. He said: "There is one player who hardly plays at all who might have to accept retirement."
Sullivan went on to add that the player earned "£60-70,000 a week".
Unquestionably he was referring to Dyer while he went on to talk about the recent retirement of Dean Ashton who was forced out of the game by his chronic ankle problems. "There is one player who has accepted retirement but we have to give him one year's money," Sullivan said.
It's understood that West Ham's vice-chairman, Karren Brady, is carrying out swingeing cuts at the club which is set to include the departure or technical director Gianluca Nani who was not involved in any of the transfer dealings that took place during January. Instead Sullivan helped negotiate the deals while using agents Barry Silkman and Willie McKay.
"We have to cut some overheads, staff who are on the administration side and support staff for the team and work down the contracts we have inherited which are terrible," Sullivan said.
Club doctors, technical staff and even West Ham's football in the community officer are under threat. Of the playing contracts, he said: "We cannot rip them up under football league rules, you are stuck with these contracts. We have to let them run down or do deals with players."
Two players whose futures at West Ham are in doubt are Robert Green and Matthew Upson. Both have less than 18 months left on their contracts and have stalled on talks over extensions to their deals.
It appears that both are likely to leave in the summer with Green, apparently, keen to try and find an overseas club while Upson is determined to play in the Champions League, if possible.
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/westham/7149621/60000-a-week-Kieron-Dyer-should-retire-says-West-Ham-chairman-David-Sullivan.html