Pornodwarf on Hardtalk

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Suggest Sullivan includes a couple of his porn "bitches" in all of his players contracts for optional "use" which could fund the 50% wage drop !!! At least it would be legalish when there wifes find out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pauliewalnuts]

The man is irredeemable.

Indeed.

He's about as redeemable as a Woolworths voucher.

[pdiddybaby]

Don't most clubs include a relegation clause in most contracts nowadays?  i.e. if we get relegated you wages will be £x.

the newly promoted ones do (which is West Brom are finacially sound but a yo-yo club), but doubt West Ham did as they would never have expected to be relegated.

[Mac]

It's the admin staff I feel for. I don't suppose their wages are all that great for London yet a multi-millionaire is telling them they have to take a salary cut. That'll boost morale for the coming relegation fight.

THe effect on morale was the first thing I thought about.  Not sure what industry Pornodwarf is modeling himself on but I'm sure telling an overpaid premier league prima donna he's going to have to take a pay cut is not the best way to motivate.

Can I also assume that the contracts these players on allows for a pay cut?


Or can I sleep safely knowing that once again this is simply yet another publicity seeking mission from the tossers from the Sty off on another one?

Has Sendo got off his sick bed yet?  They've got years of this to come.

[Mac]

Sorry, only just read it.  "Voluntary" pay cuts.  Yep.  With a gun to their heads.

[Mac]

"all premier league managers are overpaid."  So he's seen all their contracts.

[London Villan]

I'm sure the £100k a week striker they were going to sign would have been happy with this little caveat too.

[Dave]

Don't most clubs include a relegation clause in most contracts nowadays?  i.e. if we get relegated you wages will be £x.

the newly promoted ones do (which is West Brom are finacially sound but a yo-yo club), but doubt West Ham did as they would never have expected to be relegated.

Considering it was only six years since they went down having been "too good to be relegated" and only three years since they escaped relegation on the last day of the season thank to an unlikely win away at Man Utd - it would have been short-sighted in the extreme if they had 'never expected to be relegated'.

Not that short-sightedness would be a surprise at the West Ham of the last few years.

[Chico Hamilton III]

"Already members of the administrative staff have come to us and said, 'look we know we are overpaid for the job we do but we are good people and we'd like to stay and we are prepared to take a voluntary wage cut'."

I wonder how many members of the administrative staff actually said this?

What a complete twat. How long before West Ham fans turn against these tacky wank-merchants???

[pdiddybaby]

Don't most clubs include a relegation clause in most contracts nowadays?  i.e. if we get relegated you wages will be £x.

the newly promoted ones do (which is West Brom are finacially sound but a yo-yo club), but doubt West Ham did as they would never have expected to be relegated.

Considering it was only six years since they went down having been "too good to be relegated" and only three years since they escaped relegation on the last day of the season thank to an unlikely win away at Man Utd - it would have been short-sighted in the extreme if they had 'never expected to be relegated'.

Not that short-sightedness would be a surprise at the West Ham of the last few years.

well to be fair to dildo twins,  the large contracts were signed at the time of the Icelandic guys and before their country went tits up, when they were splashing the cash they expected CL not relegation.

[Mazrim]

The fact he came out in the open just within earshot of the SKY cameras that he knew was there and started blabbing about money says everything to me.

He's a fucking liar. There was nobody on the end of the phone. £100k a week my arse.

[London Villan]

Benni McCarthy for a £100k a week (soon to be £75k a week) is a good bit of business... ;-)

[Risso]

For a while, I was almost warming to West Ham.  I'd managed to put aside the Tevez scandal, as I quite like Zola and anyway, Sendo is such a nice poster on here.  Now that pair of ****** is in charge, I can happily go back to despising everything about them.

[Dave P]

Birmingham City deserved those pricks.  West Ham, for all their ills, do not.

[LeeB]

I took the trouble to record this as i was interested to hear what he had to say.  Despite all the previous posts, most of which are no doubt based on peoples petty hatred of the fact that the man and his business colleague were in charge of our city neighbours, I thought on the whole that he gave a good account.

People really need to take off their rose tinted specs and stop pretending that they have never experienced any form of pornography.  The guy made his money perfectly legally and unlike some folks in business does not go and hide away somewhere offshore to avoid paying taxes.

He was honest enough to admit that he was not in love with BCFC and that both he and Gold have more affinity with WHU.  His plans to relocate WHU and make use of the Olympic Stadium post 2012 make sound commercial sense and instead of belittling them Seb Coe and his gang should get around the table and see what UK plc can get back from Sullivan and Gold for their use of the stadium after the Olympics.  After all does anybody want to see another "Millenium Dome" situation occuring with tax payers money on that site because thats exactly where we are heading with this stadium after the games.

During the interview Sullivan was perfectly within his rights in outlining his framework for correcting the shocking imbalance that has been allowed to develop in terms of player wages and power and also for knocking the Premier League for allowing some of the more dubious foreign investment to come into the league.  Nobody can deny the mess that Pompey are in and in part the Premier League have allowed that to happen, their governance of our national sport has been nothing short of incompetent at best and downright negligent at worst.

In principle I believe he was quite right to touch on the Kieron Dyer issue at West Ham, the guy should have been medically retired a long time ago.  To be allowed to meander through his last two high wage contracts without checks and balances is wrong.  In any other business an employee (for that is ultimately what he is) who was unfit to perform the job for which they are paid, for as long as he has been unfit, would have been finished long ago on the grounds of ill health.  

To summarise I thought it was a good interview and that David Sullivan gave a good account of what he hopes to achieve at WHU.  His business model is both appropriate and robust in the current climate and I for one share his view on the need for clubs to regain the upper hand over the players and their agents and begin to reign in the excessive spending on wages that has been a blight on football for too long now.  The money is beginning to run out and we should all be preparing for the new paradigm that lies ahead, i believe they call it the real world.

Hello Dave.