A lot of West Ham United fans have responded to a tweet from West Ham News with quotes from a report from Football.london.
The report claims that because of the ongoing suspension of the Premier League, the club are facing a cashflow hole of between £60-80m.
This has not gone down well with these Hammers fans, who feel that David Gold and David Sullivan will try anything to recoup that money, and that includes cutting budgets and selling Declan Rice.
Do you trust this report?
No, Gold and Sullivan are lying
Yes, I believe this report
West Ham are currently facing the prospect of a projected cash flow hole of between £60million and £80million due to the lack of football.
[Source: @Football_LDN] pic.twitter.com/fUOxXcpxTh
— West Ham News (@WHUFC_News) April 6, 2020
They’ll be using this as an excuse not to sign players for years??
— Lively (@penners78) April 6, 2020
Gold and Sullivan can’t believe their luck
— LasVegasWestHam (@WestHaminVegas) April 6, 2020
Bang goes the summer budget
— Darren (@JustDarren77) April 6, 2020
Cue the sale of Declan Rice to fill the cash loss
— John Barrett (@johnbarrett75) April 6, 2020
Excuses coming out already ??
— will earle (@willearle_) April 6, 2020
Other Irons supporters, though, don’t believe this report.
Something stinks here! So a massive cash flow hole yet they still only pay £2M for the stadium!?
— ? (@BoleynE139AZ) April 6, 2020
How ?we have hardly any staff compared to most clubs , we don’t own the stadium so we do not have to pay those staff
— Spike (@scrutchins) April 6, 2020
We will have had the same lack of football as all other clubs; so as hard as it is, everyone is on the same boat.
— Luke (@luke_irons) April 6, 2020
What do we think?
West Ham are currently in the top 20 richest clubs in the world, so it could be argued they should be able to deal with the lack of football better than others.
However, if the report is true, then that is nevertheless a lot of money that they could lose, and they would then probably have to try and gain that back in some way.
David Moyes has already agreed a pay cut, but what other measures could West Ham take? We will just have to wait and see.