O'Neill Rejects west ham interest!

[Chris Smith]

Yeah the guardian is claiming he's had 2nd thoughts now he's been exposed as a back-stabbing cup who will walk over the lifeless corpse of another manager's career to get a job. The horse carrying your reputation has bolted Martin, you might as well take the job now

Get a grip you soft sod and join us in the real world. It's what happens all the time, clubs talk to agents to see if their man would, if a vacancy arose, be interested in taking the job. It's not made public but Grant would be doing just the same if the circumstances were reversed. West Ham have fucked up because it was leaked.

[Greg N'Ash]

thats true chris but MON pretends he's above all that. That's his image and why he sues people at the drop of a hat if they question his integrity. I doubt there's any letters from his lawyer arriving at newspapers this morning

[eastie]

what i dont get is why a senior west ham source would leak it at 1.45 am? maybe just happy to have got his mon , but surely you would know the risk involved in leaking it?
although it seems david gold is the one backing grant , maybe it was gold who leaked it to scupper the whole thing?

[Greg N'Ash]

i reckon it was Gold. He can't help himself

[Mazrim]

It was probably him or that little scrote Sullivan talking just loudly enough on his mobile to let the press weasels hear him saying something about O'Neill.

[Chris Smith]

what i dont get is why a senior west ham source would leak it at 1.45 am? maybe just happy to have got his mon , but surely you would know the risk involved in leaking it?
although it seems david gold is the one backing grant , maybe it was gold who leaked it to scupper the whole thing?

Hoping to piss Grant off so that he'd resign and they save themselves the compensation I reckon.

[Brend'Watkins]

what i dont get is why a senior west ham source would leak it at 1.45 am? maybe just happy to have got his mon , but surely you would know the risk involved in leaking it?
although it seems david gold is the one backing grant , maybe it was gold who leaked it to scupper the whole thing?

Hoping to piss Grant off so that he'd resign and they save themselves the compensation I reckon.

That's it.  You hang in there Avram.

[Chico Hamilton III]

what i dont get is why a senior west ham source would leak it at 1.45 am?

To be fair to them, The Sunday Times broke this story 7 days ago but it went unoticed until Sky repeated it on Saturday.

I don't think O'Neill will go.

Big fat Yam-Yam Sam, on the other hand, is much more desperate to work

[JUAN PABLO]

Grant has more dignity than those two porno dwarves..

[Risso]

what i dont get is why a senior west ham source would leak it at 1.45 am? maybe just happy to have got his mon , but surely you would know the risk involved in leaking it?
although it seems david gold is the one backing grant , maybe it was gold who leaked it to scupper the whole thing?

Hoping to piss Grant off so that he'd resign and they save themselves the compensation I reckon.

Surely a case of constructive dismissal if ever there was one?

[TimTheVillain]

what i dont get is why a senior west ham source would leak it at 1.45 am? maybe just happy to have got his mon , but surely you would know the risk involved in leaking it?
although it seems david gold is the one backing grant , maybe it was gold who leaked it to scupper the whole thing?

Hoping to piss Grant off so that he'd resign and they save themselves the compensation I reckon.

Surely a case of constructive dismissal if ever there was one?

Absolutely.

Never witnessed such cruddy treatment of a Manager before.

[eastie]

Sky paraded their reporter David craig on Saturday and he revealed he'd been called personally by a senior west ham source telling him o neill had agreed and grant was out- he was like a dog with 2 cocks telling how he had been woken personally with the call at 1 45am.

Maybe there were other leaks to press too, but man city did similar with Hughes and Mancini- grant must hang in and take them for every penny, longer it drags on the more the transfer window ticks by.

Grant announced the sidwell deal was agreed and west ham suddenly pulled the plug, maybe mon was involved in that?

[Whiney MacWhineface]

There's a Hammers ITK that reckons the Board were divided and that Gold was on Grant's side. Grant's pay-off was supposed to have been done and dusted at the Board Meeting last Wednesday and that Grant had agreed to it, but Gold prevented it from going through. The theory now is that Gold has now been won over and the deed will be done shortly. Whether O'Neill is still interested is another matter though. There is comment also to the effect that there's no money available for transfers under some agreement with Straumur, but it all gets a bit complicated.

[hawkeye]

If he walked he would be in breach of contract, constructive dimissal only applies when you have been employed more than a year and under normal employment conditions, any lawyer advising Grant would tell him to sit tight, not make any comments that could be deemed to hold the Club in disrepute, which is exactly what he is doing. if they fire Grant the LMA lawyers will take up his case and they have a decent fund and plenty of experience

[eastie]

That fits in with what Jonathan
pearce said on Saturday nick, he said one of grants people had told him the pay off was agreed on Thursday night.

Remember a few yrs ago ridsdale claimed mon had agreed to go to Leeds and then he backed out at the last minute, he was Celtic manager at the time and o Leary had just been sacked, at the time Celtic were reportedly furious mon had gone behind their backs.