Nick Brokenbrow

David Sullivan has had years to build West Ham into a sustainable football club. Instead, here’s what he’s delivered: 📋 West Ham’s own accounts forecast a liquidity shortfall in Summer 2026 — and that’s the BASE CASE. The relegation scenario is even worse. 💳 The club has borrowed £124m in long-term debt through RMF and carries a £40m overdraft with Barclays expiring July 2026 — right in the middle of the going concern period. No guaranteed renewal. 💰 And Sullivan’s own money? According to the accounts, shareholder funding is the absolute last resort — only committed if player sales and debt factoring aren’t enough to plug the gap. So let’s be clear about what that means. He’ll borrow from banks. He’ll sell our best players. He’ll factor future transfer receivables for quick cash. All of that before he puts his hand in his own pocket. We moved out of Upton Park — our home — into a stadium we don’t own, were told it was the future, and this is where we are. A club that cannot meet its liabilities through Summer 2026 without selling players or a shareholder bailout. The Premier League’s PSR rules exist to prevent exactly this kind of financial mismanagement. If player trading is the primary mechanism keeping this club solvent AND PSR compliant, someone needs to be asking serious questions

@westhamfootball @WestHamViews_ Your daddy is a shit negotiator

@WestHamViews_ around £12.5m is sitting in West Ham bank account, the other £24m is owed to us by Flamengo over the next two years

It’s a miracle! Lucas Paqueta comes on as a 58th minute substitute for Flamengo despite not being able to train or play for West Ham. Flamengo lost 2-0 to Corinthians in the Supercopa final on Sunday He missed a sitter in-front of goal in the 93th minute only for Corithians to seal the win with a second goal minutes later

@westhamfootball Who in their right mind put JWP on £125k a week?! Ridiculous decision

West Ham will continue to pay 30% of James Ward-Prowse’s wages while he is on loan at Burnley. The Clarets are covering approximately 70% of his salary until the end of June—an arrangement valued at around £2 million for the 22 weeks remaining of the season. Ward-Prowse, who reportedly earns £125,000 per week, will cost the Hammers a further £37,500 each week while turning out for Burnley. That’s a total outlay of roughly £825,000 for a player no longer at the club. A senior club source told Claret & Hugh exclusively this morning: “Burnley are paying about 70%, but the manager wanted him out and playing in the shop window.” Ward-Prowse was signed for £30 million from Southampton by former boss David Moyes in the summer of 2023. He penned a four-year deal running until June 2027. However, current manager Nuno Espírito Santo had a reported falling out with the midfielder during a previous loan spell at Nottingham Forest—a rift that continued in their reunion in East London. Luckily Burnley manager and former Hammer Scott Parker has a full head of hair so there shouldn’t be a problem there.

@ExWHUEmployee Done in time for him to be involved tomorrow?

Deal just waiting international clearance

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@itvfootball @ITV @ITVSport @Carabao_Cup @EFL Nothing tasty about it… typical Liverpool love in from the media

@WestHamViews_ @westhamfootball Can’t trust a word that guy says

What happened then @westhamfootball? 🤦🏻‍♂️

@ChrisParry @MarshyBoy26 Impressive considering he was playing in Spain last season

@MarshyBoy26 Was one of the best defenders in the French league last season but ok champ.

Aguerd is literally no loss whatsoever, did without him when he went out on loan, shouldn’t have bothered coming back. Geezer only has pace & honestly that’s all that gets him out the shit. Away from that yet another that can’t do the basics. Best off fucked off out of it

@CallumWHU_ No idea why Potter wanted to keep him anyway, he made it clear he wanted out

What an absolute bellend, Mavropanos clear anyway. Where’s he got this ego from, he is absolutely shite

@DFrankcom David Sullivan

Who’s worse?

@westhamfootball You need to deactivate fella

West Ham are poised to sign Mateus Fernandes from Southampton for a fee of about £38m plus £3m of add-ons plus a 15% sell on clause West Ham are also expected to finalise a contract with Monaco’s Soungoutou Magassa, who will cost the Hammers €17m (£14.7m) plus €3m (£2.59m) in add-ons. This additional £58.29m of transfer financial liabilities comes on top of existing financial commitments for El Hadji Malick Diouf of £19m plus £2.5m of add-ons, £15.5m for Mads Hermansen and £35m for Jean-Clair Todibo That adds up to £130.29m of financial transfer liabilities this summer with just Mohammed Kudus sale to Spurs for £54.5m to offset it to bring net liabilities to around £75.79m as it stands.

@WHUFC_News Dju please, last thing we need is another injury prone player

Get Boniface in on loan or Dju plus a CB then that would round off a great end to the window for us

@MarkHarrison23 Absolutely, he thinks he can get away with doing the bare minimum time and time again. No doubt if we manage to turn things around and survive relegation, he will try and take all the credit

This is the thing with Sully when the pressure on him gets really intense he does just enough to dampen anger towards him and deflect attention but people should never forget how awful of an owner he is and even if we end up signing a few players pressure should remain on him.

@WHUFC_News Unless he’s converted to a makeshift forward as we are so light in that area

Surely Paqueta is off if these three midfielders come in 😬

@westhamfootball Might have been a good idea to have a plan in place for recruitment before the transfer window opened… not hope for the best and end up scrambling at the end of the window for scraps!! Well done Sullivan you cretin, sell up and piss off!!

West Ham have agreed a deal for Monaco’s Soungoutou Magassa worth £14.67m in a transfer fee in instalments plus £2.59m in potential performamce related add ons. The 21 year old Frence midfielder is expected to fly to London today for his medical and following that he will finalise personal terms and sign his contract which should not be a problem. Everyone involved in the recruitment at West Ham are working 18 hour days to bring in further players before the deadline and there are multiple active bids in play.

@WestHam Disgusting

Our second round XI ⚒️

@Hammers_Update If we do get that many in I bet they won’t be of the quality we want/need to keep us up. Sullivan’s piss poor running of the club has finally caught up with him

It’s difficult to be positive at the moment, but I do think we bring in 3/4 players by the deadline As useless as they are, I think the board are in panic mode a little now and realise relegation is a huge possibility if they don’t reinforce the squad

@WestHamPlace I cant see any decent manager wanting to join us while DS remains at the helm. The sooner he goes the better

Why would an owner who has such low confidence in their manager give them any money to spend? Potter is the fall guy for David Sullivan and once again, another manager will go while that little shithouse cretin remains the owner. Makes me sick .

@KevinSladeAOFP I think Glasner would have been a great appointment, he has worked wonders with palace on a shoestring budget plus his achievements with Frankfurt before that were impressive. Problem we have now is you would have to be mad or desperate to work under DS

Why are people still talking about Moyes?! I loved Moyes, but did he need to go? YES. Should we have replaced him with cheap out of job managers Lopi, and then Potter? NO. Our pathetic board should have identified a European manager whose stock was on the up! That’s what!