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After taking control of the club they proceeded to undermine the manager they inherited in Gianfranco Zola for the rest of the season. Who criticised them for doing so when he was sacked as soon as season finished.
They spent their first 6 months trying to sign Graham Dorrans for a £4m few and only ever increased it by £500k. An interest in a player neither Zola or his replacement Avram Grant wanted.
Speaking of. They replaced a manager who wasn’t their choice, but had kept club up for two seasons in difficult financial circumstances, with Avram Grant. A manager who was their choice promptly got them relegated in 20th position.
Let’s not forget the Martin O’Neill debacle that January. Leaking to the media Grant would be sacked whatever the result V Arsenal on the day of the game. The result didn’t matter because O’Neill promptly backed out of the deal over their antics.
Just to return to a year before quickly. Let’s not forget when Sullivan was only the radio telling the world how much we were offering Rudd Van Nistelrooy to join the club. He didn’t join and we signed Mido on a wage of £1k a week.
This was just the first 18 months in charge of the club.
They tried to renege on a deal the previous owners had with the fans. Any supporter that brought a season ticket for five years straight was entitled to a 20% discount. Due to legal threats they ended up offering two options 20% discount of 5% over for next 4 years.
During this time Sullivan’s son Jack had started using Twitter to announce all our transfer deals. Who can also forget when they were using it to make transfer decisions.
Skipping ahead a couple years but when pressure to stop this from Jack finally paid off they promptly started releasing the ‘Boleyn Insider’ on the official website detailing all the transfer business
Around this time fans had also started to catch on to their interest on their loans. Initially David Sullivan gave interviews saying they cannot legally offer loans interest free. A lie. Then cut the interest in half a couple years ago. They still earn that interest to this day.
To put it in stark contrast over the past 5 years no one has earnt more money from interest than G&S by a long distance. Yet they still insist they don’t earn a penny out of the club.
After missing out on Jamie Vardy whilst in the Championship because Sullivan wouldn’t sanction a £1m fee for a non-league player he then openly tried to sign him after Leicester had won the Premier League and promptly moaned £20m was too much and signed Zaza on loan.
David Sullivan has used the club to avoid paying tax.
David Sullivan has given money to crime lords.
David Sullivan has used the club to give donations to the Conservative Party.
Whilst we’re on about the Olympic Stadium. When they tried to garner support for the move they had a survey of supporters they used to back up decision. This were the only options given.
David Gold said the seats at the Olympic Stadium would be no further than the seats at Wembley.
David Sullivan said it’d be crazy to call West Ham West Ham London. He proceeded to put London on the club badge when redesigned.
After a failed transfer window first year at London Stadium under Bilic they decided to throw him under the bus as soon as the window closed to put blame on him not wanting Krychowiak or Renato Sanches.
Sam Allardyce said that David Sullivan would present him with surprise signings and if they didn’t work would blame coaching.
Under Slaven Bilic who can forget the infamous Dildo brothers comments for how poorly they ran their negotiations with Sporting Lisbon? The released said emails to Sky Sports News.
Before Pellegrini came in we conducted a review of the structure of the club. It was not good. Scouting reports weren’t kept electronically and we had a shocked lack of scouts. They had been in charge 8 years at this point. We then sacked all six scouts alongside Pellegrini.
Nearly everything aside from the ‘biggest screens in Europe’ to do with the LS has been a shambles. They sold the move as being able to let use compete financially with the top six of the Premier League a year later they admitted it didn’t make much difference and we’re now broke
There are many many more things I could right but I can’t add any more to this thread. Their use of agents etc...
But needless to say the Diangana incident brought this to a head. David Sullivan and Gold have caused this @JimWhite anyone who does their research can see this.
But needless to say the Diangana incident brought this to a head. David Sullivan and Gold have caused this @JimWhite anyone who does their research can see this.
A lot of eyes on this thread. Some honourable mentions had I been able to add more tweets at the time. Sullivan saying his kids begged him to not sign Snodgrass and Fonte. Jack tweeting that he didn’t want Chamakh. The Sullivan kids wearing Batshuayi shirts. Bacca, Lacazette etc.
