Board/Fan Relationship

PrestonHammer

I really hope his sons don't takeover the running of our club. I think that would be an absolute disaster.

MunichHammer

Based on what, Preston?

Hammerwombat

Apart from being privileged and possibly a little spoilt, I don’t think that should stop you taking over the running of the club? I don’t know but they might be quite good at it .

PrestonHammer

Like Aslef posted earlier, I have read somewhere that David Sullivan has said he has no intention of selling up and will leave his shares to his sons.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11685/10113522/david-sullivan-insists-west-ham-is-not-for-sale

Hammerwombat

Much like a lot of other business people in many other walks of life, including football.

chicagohammer

horshamhammer said:

This times about 100 million.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/west-ham-cant-continue-in-london-stadium-0h60m9d23

Pretty hard to disagree with any of that, sadly

ASLEFshrugged

David Sullivan Jnr aka "the notorious Dave Sullivan" (according to his Instagram account) recently declared he was the "new Hugh Hefner" while showing off his £11m central London apartment (owned by his Dad obviously) to The Sun, The Mail and the rest. Hefner made his own fortune while Dave is "working" for his dad so perhaps the "new Donald Trump" would be more accurate,

He's only 20, maybe he'll mature with age........

claretandbluesky

Well we all gotta have something to aspire to and if you were bought up by a porn baron I guess Hugh Hefner would fill that role. There are probably not too many 20 year old lads however who would see Hugh Hefner as something to aspire to in 2018 as he is a little bit 70's. Sully and he were a little similar I guess as both were primarily associated with porn but where as Hugh Hefner created Playboy sully created the Sunday Sport !

ianbishoplegend

I think Sullivan Jr comes across a little naive, but he is a youngster. He has the right attitude to succeed, and I wish him all the best.

IronHerb

Do you know him personally ibl?

MunichHammer

Why does it matter how somebody made his fortune? In what way is it relevant whether somebody earned millions selling porn or cars? As long as it is legal (i.e. not drugs or weapons to terrorists) I could't care less what they did.

Poshhammer

MunichHammer said:

Why does it matter how somebody made his fortune? In what way is it relevant whether somebody earned millions selling porn or cars? As long as it is legal (i.e. not drugs or weapons to terrorists) I could't care less what they did.

Got to agree with this, with the one caveat being that you can in some ways learn a lot about a person by the way they go about making their money.

The principles of business are pretty much the same in most industries, however, selling magazines that contains young girls having sex is not quite the same as selling a diet coke at a local newsagent.

I suspect that you would develop a much thicker skin and become less worried of people's thoughts and emotions when your selling sex as opposed to selling diet coke.

ASLEFshrugged

"Notorious Dave" didn't make his fortune, his dad did

However on the other side there is Jacqueline Gold who took over Ann Summers and turned it from a small chain of seedy sex shops patronised by men in dirty raincoats into a multi million pound business with 135 stores across the UK by some out-of-the-box thinking.

If any of the kids are going to take over I'd prefer her

Pearces_Left_Foot

http://thehlist.blogspot.de/2018/03/west-ham-0-3-burnley-and-other-ramblings.html

A good read (warning some naughty words included !)

Pearces_Left_Foot

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-to-appoint-a-director-of-football-as-david-sullivan-takes-a-step-back-from-transfer-a3788646.html

West Ham to appoint director of football , a good move if a bit late

ASLEFshrugged

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2018/mar/13/david-squires-on-west-hams-chaotic-cauldron-of-infighting

Poshhammer

Pearces_Left_Foot said:

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-to-appoint-a-director-of-football-as-david-sullivan-takes-a-step-back-from-transfer-a3788646.html

West Ham to appoint director of football , a good move if a bit late

I wonder who will set the budget for transfers....The new director of football of the two Dave's?

grey_til_I_dye

What a strange thing to say.

MrsGrey

Make it someone who knows what they are doing, surely?

Best way to win support - sign some good players.

IronHerb

No, get someone who knows what they're doing.

MrsGrey

;whistle

IronHerb

Throwing your hat in the ring Mrs G? ;wink

Poshhammer

grey_til_I_dye said:

What a strange thing to say.

Was that for me Mr Grey...if so why so?

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Pearces_Left_Foot said:

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-to-appoint-a-director-of-football-as-david-sullivan-takes-a-step-back-from-transfer-a3788646.html

West Ham to appoint director of football , a good move if a bit late

Only 8 years late.....

Still got there in the end

claretandbluesky

I think we need the sharpest brain possible and someone who has proved themselves in the industry. A Daniel Levy type character. I actually think the worst thing we could do is get a hammers legend in as that wouldn't qualify them within the post. Paolo would stop the protests overnight and have them singin his name but not sure he would be qualified to fulfil such a pivotal role. I do recognise that Sir Trev has been involved in the game behind the scenes for a long time but not sure he would want a role that could potentially lose him all the love he has. Other than Sir Trev no other legends come to mind for such a pivotal role.

ASLEFshrugged

Sir Trev will be 70 in October so perhaps he's happy being retired, he's packed a lot of football into one working life.

I have to say that given the boards past performance in filling staff roles I'm not expecting much but I'm not discounting the possibility that I could be pleasantly surprised

TheMadcapLaughs

Munich, when did selling weapons to terrorists become illegal. Most governments do it. Nice little earner.

grey_til_I_dye

Posh

Indeed it was.

Because, imo, it was.

Are you in any doubt?

Do you know of any club that gives the Director of Football the power to set transfer budgets?

Poshhammer

Mr Grey,

No I don't. If anything it was more a tongue in cheek question and what I'm really asking is "what will change?"...personally I don't think anything will.

I suspect that all we've seen today is an exercise in keeping fans happy and moving the lady around the table.

I suspect that the Dave's will be the ones that approve any deals. And this director of football will be a yes man/woman who will then get the blame when things go wrong.

billybondsbeard

I can see where Posh is coming from though, and I think I agree with grey on this one..
It will all be very well for us to have a person with DOF on their door, but if we are only going to give him/her a budget built only for just about PL survival, whats the point ?
The announcement of the rumoured £60m net spend in the summer needs to be firmed up IMO. It would be a good announcement to make at the moment, whoever the manager will be next year.
We will either need that sort of spend to start to compete in the Prem, or alternatively to spend on a title winning Champo team.

A pig just flew by my window ;nonono