West Ham fans fracked over by MSI, previous board and Premier League
The 5.5 million fine placed on West Ham is not only a record, it’s a statement of the strongest intent. It says that the West Ham management was not only withholding vital information from the authorities, they were also guilty of wrongdoing in their dealings with MSI over Tevez and Mascherano.
West Ham have been made an example in the most serious terms by the Premier League – it’s a warning to other teams: the next time something like this happens, not only will a club face even higher monetary fines but also point deductions.
What will happen now? The team will try to fight an impossible battle to stave off relegation. The management will probably do what they have threatened to do all along – sue Terry Brown and drag this case out till the next season.
Whatever happens, this is the calamity coming full circle for West Ham – people feared it when the initial deal happened but I doubt that anyone expected West Ham to suffer this much.
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Ahmed, how many times do I have to remind you, Manchester is not 10 miles north of Watford. And no, that’s Sheffield. Oh, never mind.
PS. Can I buy your old Arsenal shirt and Chelsea shirt? (I thought Sharp didn’t sponser Man Utd anymore??)
April 27th, 2007 @ 18:30Interesting, if only I knew what you were talking about mate
April 27th, 2007 @ 18:32What is interesting is that West Ham get this sort of punishment (deserved), and only recently Chelsea were practically let off for very similar offences despite also being found guilty.
April 27th, 2007 @ 19:03Lawrie – details please. As in, elaborate my friend, if you’re making accusations let it all out
April 27th, 2007 @ 19:26It sounds as if Mr. Bilal is a fan of Battlestar Galactica.
April 27th, 2007 @ 19:28A bit random here, but when they signed Tevez and Mascherano it was reported to be in the region of £1 million for each player. They have sold Mascherano for £6 million so surely £5.5 million cant be that much of a loss to them? Plus they have the money that the possible sale of Tevez.
BTW West Ham have to resign
April 27th, 2007 @ 23:01continued…. BTW West Ham have to sign Tevez by 12:00 tomorrow.
April 27th, 2007 @ 23:02Hakieran – that’s an excellent point – so that even with the $5.5M fine they could still gain big time on their transfers – and seem to have already made up more than the fine on their sale of Macherano alone.
April 28th, 2007 @ 00:47That doesn’t seem right (?)
There’s a lot of confusion on Mascherano’s ‘move’ to Liverpool. From what I understand it was a loan of 1 and a half seasons, with a 1m payment.
April 28th, 2007 @ 00:49