Yesterday West Ham confirmed their squad to compete in the Europa Cup this coming season: Goalkeepers: Alphonse Areola; Lukasz Fabianski; David Martin; Darren Randolph Defenders: Vladimir Coufal; Aaron Cresswell; Craig Dawson; Issa Diop; Ryan Fredericks; Arthur Masuaku; Angelo Ogbonna; Kurt Zouma Midfielders: Alex Kral; Mark Noble; Declan Rice; Tomas Soucek Forwards: Michail Antonio; Said Benrahma; Jarrod Bowen; Pablo Fornals; Manuel Lanzini; Nikola Vlasic; Andriy Yarmolenko.
The only senior player omitted from the squad was the stalwart from the Boleyn days, Winston Reid, the Kiwi's captain has never fully recovered from the freak injury sustained while playing against Swansea nearly four years ago. Reid was handed a massive SIX YEAR deal in order to fend off interest from Arsenal and several other Barclays Premier League clubs.
Unfortunately Reid's rehabilitation has never been fully completed and as such he was NEVER going to feature in a David Moyes team, loan spells in the States and at Brentford failed to reignite the players 'elite' career with his wage demands being a huge hurdle for any club looking to take a punt on the 33 year old's fitness.
Word has reached us that failing to find a club for Reid has forced West Ham to offer the centre back a pay off, much as they did for Kevin Nolan back in the day and more recently as they did for Jack Wilshere! Reid has the remainder of this season and A FURTHER 12 MONTHS left on his contract meaning he is scheduled to receive around a further £6,720,000 in wages!
If you factor in Yarmolenko's exorbitant £115,000 per week wages as well, it is clear to see why the club doesn't have a pot to pee in. Reid is due to be offered what we consider to be an extremely generous £2 Million settlement in order to terminate his contract and save the club over £4 Million in future wages.
Harsh lessons will have been learned by the Reid/Wilshere/Yarmolenko experience, never again will the club hand out deals that are so lengthy or so lucrative. Reid was a great servant to the club, but come on Winny, enough is enough, how much money do you need? - Ed
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Got a lot of time for Reidy
And his injury was sustained in the workplace wearing claret and blue. Bleed those bastards dry. If the boot was on the other foot they wouldn't give a hoot
Come on Nev ,if your in
Come on Nev ,if your in buisnes you look for the best price its human nature,your allways saying things like " wage demands "and " exorbident long term contracts " ,think you should put the blame where it belongs ,at the door of the people in charge of offering those wages and contracts .
You rightly say Reid was a great servant to the club ,i would go further and sayhe was bordering on hero worshiped, his partenership with Ginge was legendary, another one of our greats who was badly treated ,blame the real culprits Nev.