David Sullivan gave an astonishing interview on Talksport today with the sycophantic Jim White, blaming the previous manager for the poor buys, the fans for wanting the previous manager and director of football, and finally David Moyes for not accepting squad players, only wanting players that will improve the team.
He then later contradicted himself when stating he still thought West Ham had a good team.
Cup win cost us £50k
Sullivan claimed that the win against Hull is going to cost £50,000.
“The win last night is marvellous, but in fact it’s probably cost us £50,000 because we have to fly to Fleetwood or Everton next week.”
That may well be the case but it isn’t the most professional thing to come out and say and a poor reflection on the club.
Grady Diangana
On the controversial sale of Grady Diangana when asked if he had any regrets, Sullivan interrupted and said ” No, it was a decision made because we had 8 wingers.”
“We have some wonderful wingers who are not in the team, Robert Snodgrass scored a fantastic goal last night, (the player who Sullivan claimed in 2017 thats his family begged him not to sign), Anderson is fantastic player (signed by a manager who made poor signings as claimed later in the interview), Yarmolenko (also signed by Pellegrini) scored two with two assists last night. Unfortunately we have got a very unbalanced squad.”
“We’ve now got the funds to buy a player or two. Unfortunately at the moment the players the manager wants, we can’t get. We’ve got two or three bids in. Unfortunately the benchmark is very high and we have got limited funds.
Still no signings
White asked Sullivan why the club were yet to strengthen in the current window.
“It’s the manager’s decision,” said Sullivan.
“I can’t go and sign two and three players the manager doesn’t want. I could buy two or three players tomorrow but we’d have civil war. As each day passes I get more depressed. We are not Roman Abramovich.”
“Under the previous regime, the only two players I picked were Diop and Fabianski and I bullied the manager to take them as I liked both of the players, all the other players him and his director of football picked and I regret in a way not stopping some of the signings but I have to back the manager.
“10% of me would like to go and sign three players tomorrow, thinking they may improve the team, but if the manager doesn’t want them I can’t do that.”
The full interview can be heard below on our You Tube channel.
