Top flight teams regularly send players out on loan, usually young, they are loaned out to gain valuable first team experience, the recipient club benefit by having a player that they normally couldn't afford, the parent club from the player's development.
Sometimes though it can be a case of a club cutting it's losses on a player who hasn't performed as they should, or for a player in a position where there are two or three others ahead of them, usually as a result of 'top heavy' squad recruitment.
West Ham United, as is often the case, manage to tick all the above mentioned boxes with regards to sending players out on loan, but at an incredible loss financially. Normally clubs will pay between 50-100% of a players wages, and sometimes have to pay a loan fee as well, however the Irons don't do things that way anymore.
Winston Reid still has two full years remaining on his lucrative contract but Sporting Kansas City the club he is on loan with pay only $20,000 per week for his services with West Ham paying the other 80%! In addition,West Ham continue to pay 75% of Roberto’s £30,000 per week wages and it is thought this arrangement would need to continue for another season loan deal to be concluded. Having conceded 8 goals in two games it is amazing that they are prepared to pay anything at all, at least he is consistent....
Hammers also pay half of Jordan Hugill's wages while he is at QPR, the other players out on loan are young and the club would not expect any significant financial return, players like Grady Diangana, Josh Cullen and Nathan Holland are one of the few bright lights in what has been a thoroughly dreadful season and are the future of the club.
Handing out long contracts to players approaching 30 years of age or more tends to come back and bite, and in West Ham United's case the club is now forking out huge sums of money for players who will never play for the club again, surely it is just better to pay them off, or at least make them an offer they 'can't refuse'. West Ham as a club have top six potential on every metric fans, turnover, transfer spend, wages, location and stadium capacity, but have finished there just once in 34 years, if the club were run professionally things might have been different, as it is ironically the greatest obstacle for West Ham is the owners, because they are FANS!
The owners are simply not wealthy enough to bank roll the club more than they already have, previous owners were even worse! It may be part of the old West Ham curse, first the Cairnes, then Brown, and then the Icelandics, all of whom have screwed the club over either by mistake or design.
The club's current business plan is not sustainable, and things have moved on, surely the time is fast approaching for the owners to sell up, possibly retaining a token share holding, in order for this great club to finally fulfill it's potential. - Ed
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Not sure
About the 'fans' bit,weren't they Brum fans when they were in charge.hence the high 5s & handshakes when they relegated us
The one thing that has always
The one thing that has always worried me in close to 50 years as a hammers fan was the lack of professionalism and financial awareness within the club and how it was going from one disaster to another with 5 relegations mainly after selling our up and coming and top class players and signing players looking for a retirement bonus in their last two or three years.
SUGO have tried imo but do not have the financial clout needed to turn us into the club we should be as Neville says. Unfortunately if we do get relegated again we certainly will be in massive trouble financially due to the heavy borrowing last season and paying out close to £150m on players plus massive salaries paid to players who are not performing. Sacking Pelligrini was right but taking on Moyes was a big mistake which I hope we do not regret come the end of July. He has had problems with Anderson and Haller who both look like they dont care and dont want to be here. (Man Management not working Moyes).
I hope we do stay up and if we do a lot of changes need to be made especially with the wage bill and those out on loan. We have the players but not the motivation at the moment so maybe Moyes has to go and a younger manager who knows the modern game taken on.
Good post Bondsy!
Good post Bondsy!
SuGo are clueless at this level, totally out of their depth. You are right, Pel had to go but why on gods earth would you bring back the joint second worst manager in our history (29% win rate) and now the worst in our history (21%)?
I just feel you cant fix West Ham until the clowns have left the circus. New board, blood a young manager and attract the young talent when playing in the chumps league. I dont hold that it will be a financial melt down. A winning side in the chumps league will attract more local "old School" support (Like 65 and Essex ... only joking lads), no tourists, popcorn, silly gimmicks and I promise you the BoM will be full 60K and bouncing!!! KTF.........COYI's!!!!!
Brilliantly put Dartford, i
Brilliantly put Dartford, i totally agree
Cheers BS... fingers crossed
Cheers BS... fingers crossed for Sunday!
Lol,i love it dartford,im
Lol,i love it dartford,im right behind you.
Great post Dartford mate
If & when sugo go I feel that we can start again with a clean sheet...the support wont be so divided & I miss the days when we were all united!! Hope I'm wrong but I still feel they will pass the reins down to the rich kids.
Said it before
I'd like to see the Cowley bros in charge,Danny & Nicky especially if we go down.not big name enough for the dildos,but for me they are proper westham fans,started their apprenticeship in non league football here in essex.They would get the passion back into the club imo