Exodus 8:08

Reports are flying around that Bellamy, Upson, Neil, and Cole are being touted about town (as well as Anton who looks as good as gone) in what looks to be another move by the board over Curbs' head to cut the wage bill. Most of you have probably read this elsewhere, so I will not go into any of the details, but this does lead me to think of a few possibilities if these reports lead to be true...

1) The board has written this season off completely, and instead of securing a decent standing in the table they are lowering the wage bill and will start from scratch next season bringing in players on reasonable wages in an Arsenal-esque capped way.

2) The board has some magic tricks up it's sleeve and will offload these four and bring in comparable players on lower wages within the next week. It would have to be within the next week as well, because as we all know you pay way over the top in January for anybody (I mean the mere fact that Quashie didn't pay us to join amazes me), and if they were to buy in January it would be a huge contradiction to spending sensibly.

3) The board are reshuffling things to clear the way for a new manager to set up his own regime. Since rumours of DiCanio, H, and Bilic are being flaunted, it could be possible to give one of them a clean slate by doing this. What seems more likely to me though is the possibility of Nani taking over, at least as a caretaker-manager, especially since he's been calling the shots on many of the signings this summer, ergo marking his stamp on what he thinks our direction forward should be.

4) Could it possibly be that they want us to do a Leeds? A.k.a. load our team with a massive amount of youth and play out the season that way?

5) This is pure business in a day and age where money in is given more attention than results or the feelings of fans. (If this is the case then we'll see a lot of older irons fans speak out).


Either way we better hope that there is a solid plan in place to secure our position in the PL. I just can't see us moving forward if we get rid of 3 defenders whilst so many are still on the injury table, as well as getting rid of two strikers which leaves us with Ashton (injury prone), Sears (inexperienced), and LBM (doesn't know how to play with Legos let alone play football) as viable options to play up front.

Let's just hope that all of this is pure media speculation, which might not be too far from the truth considering West Ham have been treated like the second coming of Satan by the press for the last two years.

What do you lot think?