I too am thankful for what the Sullivan, Gold, Brady gang did for us all those years ago, but I too will re-iterate that any survival will, in the end, be financed by YOU the Hammers fans.

Sullivan et. al. sold Blues for a tidy profit (some may say that it way their skills that made Blues worth £80M, some may not), but either way that was £80M taken OUT of the club and into the pockets of the magic trio.

Just remember that they are businessmen first and WH fans second. I would also suggest that you take any promises with a pinch of salt (especially Champions League football in 7 years!, even Man City would have been happy with that promise a couple of years ago and they have far more money to throw around). Remember it took them 8 years to get us back into the top flight, and I expect that behind the scenes, from a financial perspective, they would not be too worried about relegation as that would allow them to off-load expensive players who have relegation clauses whilst claiming ‘we had no choice in selling them!’.

Quotes to be wary of…Sullivan ‘ALWAYS wanted to buy West Ham’ – he also ‘always wanted to buy Cardiff (where he was brought up, and hence his local club).

Gold is totally against the idea of reducing ticket prices – in fact he said ‘reducing ticket prices will guarantee relegation’ but perhaps that is what he wants – see above point.

DG is likeable and genuine – DS is a business man interested in profit, and he doesn’t care how many fans he upsets in the process (and don’t think WHU fans will be any different – as he is really a Cardiff fan anyway!).

All the best anyway – I expect them to steady your ship, and for you to be playing boring CC championship football, with loan players, and the most expensive ticket prices in the CCL within 2 years – but at least you won’t owe £100M to anybody (but you will owe your souls to the new board, and they won’t let you forget it!)

I am grateful for what they did, its just a shame that they never owned up to their mistakes such as getting us relegated … DS was a loose cannon, the fans, the new owner, certain players, Beau Brummie, Yeung etc… were always scapegoated at convenient times…

I enjoy reading the papers these days and reading about Birmingham and football, yes football! the new owners and business management just get on with it in the background. This is refreshing compared to the previous regime with their consistent stream of self publicising statements and promises…

Enjoy the honeymoon period Hammers fans, your finances will get sorted out and your ticket prices will go up, oh yes, you WILL be funding this recovery in some way shape or form and your loyalty will be tested and challenged.

You will not be top 4, unless DS is referring to the championship. The best that you can hope for under their stewardship is staying in the prem, year after year, especially as you will be playing with other teams’ loan players.

This was the expectation of the majority of Blues fans, prem survival, nothing more, nothing less… they couldn’t even deliver that!

Just remember these immortal words “I will not spend my sons inheritance”…

KRO