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The PAI announcement due later today about their take over plans won't help matters that need urgent attention, no matter what they say it won't 'magic up' a striker from nowhere and perhaps their interest will only serve to have a derogatory effect on the club.

To be honest in a way their interest coild end up being a PAI'N in supporters' backsides, because it will just add smoke to back up the mirrors already in place at the club.

IF they really are serious about the club's welfare, surely they should be holding 'confidential' negotiations in order to not further destabilise a club that is undoubtedly about to hit a rocky patch.

We know this sentiment might not go down well with a lot of fans, it is just one way of looking at things. It is highly unlikely that David Sullivan would sanction a sale that doesn't meet his ultra high valuation, but if he was offered 'crazy money' he would snap their hands off.

It should also be remembered that the 30% clause regarding the London Stadium will still be applicable until 2023, so PAI would need to stump up an additional 30% premium in order to get the deal done quickly, as opposed to biding their time for another year and a half. Sullivan and the other shareholders would receive the same money either way, 10% shareholder Tripp Smith would have to acquiesce under company law if the remaining 90% were purchased.

Ironically a similar situation actually happened to David Gold and David Sullivan while they owned Birmingham City when the Icelandics purchased West Ham, as G&S had around a 10% stake in the club that they were forced to cash in.

Of course every long suffering fan wants the proverbial knight in shining armour to arrive and sweep the club of its feet, or the cavalry to come charging over the horizon to save the day, but it ain't gonna happen.

Any negotiations will be long and painful, that is assuming they take place at all. The club's shareholders are under no obligation even to listen to offers, as such they hold all the aces, so any offer made would have to be 'significant' and would have to be financed further down the line, PSI are an investment company that has to generate dividends for their clients, knights in shining armour they certainly are not!

The club has 'endured' ten years of Gold and Sullivan's ownership as a consequence of the Icelandic's splashing their borrowed cash indiscriminately, the club was lurching towards administration before the 'Twins' stepped in and bought it for a relative song.

So the essence of this tale is cautionary, 'be careful of what you wish for, you might just get more than you bargained for'. - Ed

27 year old Paul Onuachu is currently the Belgian Pro League Player of the Year, rumours were rife following his omission from the match day squad against KV Oostende on July the 30th that he was on his way out of the club, with West Ham United being ONE of his preferred destinations.

Onuachu had been criticised for playing at a level below what people were used to seeing in his first two matches of the season against Club Brugge and Standard Liege, but scored against Shakhtar Donetsk in Genk's third game of the season.

The towering striker would be a more than decent signing for David Moyes, wages are not thought to be a problem, the only stumbling block and there always is one regarding West Ham transfers, is the €30 Million that Genk are seeking for their player.

Pre-Covid that figure would have been a bargain, but money is tight throughout Europe so Genk have hardly had club's breaking down their door to do deal. In the current circumstances €30 Million is pushing it a bit, especially for a player untried at the very top level.

At an impressive 6'7" tall, Onuachu would be a tremendous threat for corners and free kicks, especially bearing in mind that West Ham are the Barclays Premier League's top scorers from dead ball situations. If a deal can be done at a more reasonable fee, say €20 Million, then perhaps the move could be on.

Beggars cannot be choosers, in fact we are not sure if West Ham even qualifies for Beggar status, but the club CANNOT afford to go into the new season with just Michail Antonio and his vengeful hamstrings to lead the line, it just won't happen. With Big Mick it is a question of when, not if, he will have his customary hamstring injury, the only variance being how long he will be side lined for.

We do try to be positive here at the Org, but that positivity needs sustenance, even just a crumb or two! Come on Moysie, make the best of a bad job, even if it means lowering your high standards just a little, because as you are probably growing to know, the Hammers injury curse hasn't gone away, it was just recovering.

With the added European fixtures in addition to the three domestic competitions, the need for some strength in depth is even more critical than it was last season, if only there had been ore or two extra players the club would have qualified for the Champions League instead of the Europa League- Ed

Quite why a club such as West Ham even countenances deals for players with horrendous injury records is beyond us, so news that there is 'interest' in signing Liverpool's perennially injured midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is baffling. The £35 Million player missed the majority of last season with an injury, as he did on his previous two seasons.

No one doubts that on his day the Ox can be a great player, unfortunately just like many others who have joined West Ham in the past, Oxlade-Chamberlain is always one tackle away from a lengthy spell on the treatment table. Having had their fingers 'napalmed' by past mistakes, Carroll and Wilshere to name the most prominent 'offenders', bled the club dry of nearly £100 Million!

If you throw in the wages wasted on Winston Reid and Andriy Yamolenko, in excess of £30 Million in the last three years, you can see the 'folly' of such signings. The club simply cannot afford to make similar mistakes moving forward, so while it is incredibly frustrating for fans wanting to see new faces, it is better that they are left wanting rather than seeing the club buying Faeces! - Ed

News that MSG are about to build a massive ball shaped advertising tower in the Queen Elizabeth Park has gone down like a lead balloon with local residents, match day chaos which already happens would be added to and resources stretched to the limit will become even worse. Now interestingly one of the the people behind MSG is none other than Kia Joorabchian, he was part of MSI, you remember Kia he was the one planted Tevez and Mascherano at West Ham when he was trying to take over the club.

His presence seems to be always there or thereabouts when it comes to controversial West Ham decisions. MSI is a murky company from South America that specialises in buying players at high prices and then loaning them out to clubs in Europe in a scheme that has been likened to money-laundering.

Of course there's no actual proof, but generally there is no smoke without fire, over the last 20 years MSG has been involved in all sorts of football transfers and they have also being involved in several attempted takeovers, they are also rumoured to have been involved in the ill-fated super league proposal.

So in a way similar to the PAI group getting mixed up with the PAX group, MSG and MSI can be equally as confusing. MSG is a company formed when the Maddison Square Gardens corporation decided to sell off some of their assets and diversify.

Quite how they have gotten so far with their planned eyesore is on the face of it a mystery, except the body that approved the plans are the bankrupt owners of the London Stadium, they are obviously desperate to generate funds in any way they can.

Having inflicted a not fit for purpose Stadium on the nation, they now seem hell bent on inflicting a 24 hour blight on the community.....well done Mr Coe and pals! - Ed