West Ham plan fire sale of players as crisis bites
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Consortiums weigh up takeover bids of West Ham United but Icelandic owner has insisted he will stay.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Consortiums weigh up takeover bids of West Ham United but Icelandic owner has insisted he will stay.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
West Ham owner Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson insists the club's finances are secure, despite Iceland's second-largest bank going into administration.
footy247 (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
West Ham chief executive officer Scott Duxbury has insisted that the position of Landsbanki bank has 'absolutely no effect' on the club.
Hammered (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Scott Duxbury has issued an official statement on the official club website. The statement starts by saying that the position of Landsbanki will have no effect on West Ham. Unsurprisingly everything Duxbury says after that contradicts the statement. Duxbury in effect confirms that there will be no money available for Zola in January and strongly hints that Zola will have to sell players. Duxbury claims...
The Soccer Blog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
West Ham have been priced out of a move to London's 2012 Olympic Stadium after it was revealed the plan could cost as much as £400million. The club had hoped that they could move to the Stratford-based stadium after the Games but they have been told that it would cost far too much for that to [...]
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
West Ham have a consultancy agreement with Kia Joorabchian that will see the controversial Iranian businessman paid more than £2million.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
An independent FA arbitration tribunal were particularly critical of the conduct of West Ham chief executive Scott Duxbury.
Hammered (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Sheffield United and their friends The Daily Mail are selectively leaking what is still the confidential FA arbitration panel's findings. In today's Daily Mail leak we learn that the arbitration panel decided that Scott Duxbury reassured Joorabchian that West Ham would honour the third party agreement they had with him over Caros Tevez. 70. Nevertheless, at the same time as West Ham was maintaining...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Scott Duxbury could face action once Premier League see full transcript of tribunal's judgment in Sheffield United's arbitration case.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The dreadful record of Dagenham's finest and a constructive terrace chant for Red Roy.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The Becks Effect ridiculed by US advert and a serious kicking for Tel.
ESPN (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
West Ham are standing behind chief executive Scott Duxbury despite reports his position is under threat because he was their legal adviser at the time of the Carlos Tevez saga which may see them lose up to £30m after an independent tribunal ruled in favour of Sheffield United.
Hammered (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The FA arbitration panel, according to yesterday's Daily Mail, have decided that Scott Duxbury lied to the Premier League when he claimed that West Ham had torn up Tevez's contract with MSI after West Ham were fined £5.5 million. According to today's Guardian the English Premier League seem to disagree with this finding, "Despite the fresh findings of Griffiths, the Premier League insist that it strictly...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
WEST Ham will take their fight against a Football Association arbitration panel's ruling on the Carlos Tevez affair to the highest court in sport, the club confirmed yest
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
West Ham United's chief executive Scott Duxbury could lose his job because of his role in the Carlos Tevez affair