Silly Season Begins With Hammers Finances Revealed

Starting count of when silly season began to start, for the media was the 19th of May, as it has only been three days since, West Ham have so far been linked to twenty-one different players, names could be provided if needed.

Why are so many names being suddenly sparked up? That would be because our finances have been ‘calculated’. The Hammers will be expected to earn an average of around £125,000,000 for this Premier League season, which is obviously without any player sales or outgoings in the future. The earning of £125 million will be the lowest income for West Ham since the pandemic, back in the 2020/21 season.

There’s a lot of chatter around the fact that we are one of the few clubs that are close on the PSR rulings, which would make sense from an outside perspective, seeing as we’ve simply been doing a lot of buying and not much selling. That is going to change this window, as we already know Potter likes to have a smaller group of players, as well as the Sky interview affirming this with Potter claiming: “It’s not major surgery, just adjustments”

The club currently have 26 players Potter can use [This includes injured players], and without any business taking place, the numbers are automatically reduced to 22 players as Fabianski, Cresswell, Coufal, and Ings will all leave on a free, as well as Soler and Ferguson returning to their original clubs.

The club will be forced in having to bring homegrown players, as the requirement is eight and with three HG players leaving already it means we would be down to five, but if Freddie Potts were to be used, that goes to six, assuming Antonio does have his contract renewed.

We know players will be sold, but there’s no point in attempting to predict how much we will get for each player, how many years the transfer fee will be paid across, etc, there are too many differing factors.

What we do know is that we’re now saving a load of money via the wage bill… thankfully, Uncle Ingy is gone, as well as a few others. But we do know that before joining the club, Potter was promised backing in the summer as well as any money that would be raised through player sales. Instead of looking at the ifs, buts and maybes, it’s best to look at the facts.

Fans know a handful of players will be sold with Potter also affirming this, we understand that we don’t have a massive amount of money to spend, but we still are able to and a lot can happen depending on the offers we receive for certain players, such as Kudus, Paqueta (if he was found not guilty) and others.

West Ham have had such a bad season that we’re already bringing out all the rumours, and the window isn’t open for 25 more days; this’ll be interesting.