Put your money where your mouth is
By: Ted | November 18th, 2008
West Ham is surely up for sale. Anything the tabloids report on us seems to come true these days, summer sales, curbs out, and the owner is broke are the three main ones. So now that it’s up for grabs, who should get it. Us, me, the fans. Take a few factors into account and one can make a guess at the price. The owner bought the club for 85 million. The world is in a huge financial crisis, that brings the price down to 60 million. We are facing an enormous lawsuit that could cost us around 50 million, knock the price down at least, at least, 10 million seeing as we don’t know how that will go. Add into that our owner is liquidating his assets, knock off at least another 10 million. That’s 40 million right there. Now, we have about 25,000 season ticket holders and another 5,000 members. That’s around 1.5 to 2 thousand a piece, or 4 or 5 season tickets worth. Make up your own mind, but I’d enjoy going to work every day to pay off that debt if it meant West Ham was run by the fans like Barcelona or AFC Wimbledon. The only question is can you trust putting that kind of money into the club. Well, there is nothing better to inspire confidence in this kind of situation then someone at the top you can trust. To support this initiative and then perhaps be elected its first President thereafter. And I happen to know someone who’s not too happy with his current job and fits the bill perfectly, Sir Trevor Brooking.
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