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Hammer Tomkins tipped to play for England


West Ham captain Matthew Upson believes James Tomkins has the potential to be an England star.

Upson has played alongside Tomkins at the heart of the Hammers' defence for the majority of what has so far been a poor season.

The relegation-threatened club may have conceded 49 league goals this term, but Upson reckons Tomkins is showing signs of developing into a quality defender who could pull on a Three Lions shirt soon.

"He has come on leaps and bounds this season," Upson said of the 21-year-old after Sunday's 3-1 win over Liverpool.

"I played a lot with him last season and he has the raw material to become a top player.

"If he keeps improving the way he is and mentally develops I think he'll have a great chance of being an international."

Aside from a late mix-up with Lars Jacobsen in the build-up to Liverpool's goal, Tomkins played well on Sunday, keeping Luis Suarez in check for most of the game.

Striker Frederic Piquionne believes the victory has renewed the squad's optimism and has called on his team-mates to produce a repeat performance against Stoke this weekend to further their bid to avoid relegation.

"We will take lots of confidence from the Liverpool win," he said.

"It was very good and we are pleased we played well and scored lots of goals. We need to keep this going. We are confident but we have to do the job against Stoke."





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We were right to bar Ba insist Stoke


Stoke chairman Peter Coates has insisted they were right to reject Demba Ba after he failed a January medical.

Senegal striker Ba has since scored three goals in as many starts for West Ham, and will be facing Tony Pulis' Potters on Saturday.

Avram Grant has compared the 6 ft 2in forward to Chelsea star Didier Drogba. But even though Stoke agreed a £7million fee with Ba's then-club, German side Hoffenheim, Coates said they could not gamble on a player with a history of knee problems.

"There are no qualms about the decision we made," said Coates. "We would have taken the player had he passed the medical. But we were strongly advised by our medical team that it was a risk we could not take.

"You cannot spend large sums of money on a high-risk basis. We were disappointed, though, because we wanted to sign the player and the eventual decision was nothing to do with his ability."

When Stoke backed away, West Ham moved in to hand Ba a contract until June 2014 - with Grant claiming his knee problems helped them them sign a "£15m" player.

"He failed the medical and I understand why, but he had already played 21 games this season," said the Irons boss. "I don't have any healthy players who have played 21 games this season.

"His value was £15million, but because he has problems in his knee we could take him. For the first time an injury helped me!"

After scoring 40 goals in 103 appearances in the Bundesliga, Ba effectively went on strike in December to force a transfer to the Premier League.

Hoffenheim general manager Ernst Tanner has claimed the 25-year-old wanted to move just for the money, but Ba claimed he turned down a mega-offer from Russia to come to London.

"Mr Tanner has ruined my image in the Bundesliga," he said. "I only heard these words: 'Demba is only after money'. The truth is that I could have earned much more money elsewhere.

"I was presented with an offer from Rubin Kazan. They wanted to pay a €15 million [£12.73m] fee. I could have earned much more there than in West Ham. It's not all about money for me."

Meanwhile, Ba's fellow Hammers striker Freddie Piquionne has called on his team-mates to maintain the momentum created by Sunday's win over Liverpool in the "crazy" battle against the drop.

The Frenchman, who who has scored three goals in four games against Stoke since arriving in English football last season with Portsmouth, said: "We will take lots of confidence from the Liverpool win.

"It was very good and we are pleased we played well and scored lots of goals.

"We need to keep this going. The league is crazy this season. There are not many points between many teams and it is very close.

"We cannot think about anyone else but must focus on getting the points ourselves and trying to win every game."

West Ham and Wales midfielder Jack Collison, who has been out for a year with a knee injury, will return to full training next week with the target of returning to action against Tottenham on March 19.






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Arsenal, Spurs and West Ham warned off France striker



Lorient president Loic Fery insists he will fight to keep in-demand striker Kevin Gameiro in Brittany this summer.

The 23-year-old striker has attracted interest from around Europe this season with the likes of Arsenal, West Ham and Tottenham strongly linked with a bid, along with French sides Bordeaux and Valencia.

However, Lorient supremo Fery insists he wants to keep the forward despite his contract running out in June next year.

"We can imagine three possibilities," he told L'Equipe.

"Let him go at the end of his contract, transfer him this summer or extend his deal at Lorient.

"We've made considerable efforts - so far unsuccessfully - to try to extend his contract. I have not given up. Nothing is ruled out."




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Stoke have no regrets over turning down the opportunity to sign Ba



Stoke chairman Peter Coates has no regrets about their decision not to sign Demba Ba in the January transfer window.

Instead the Senegal striker will be lining up for opponents West Ham on Saturday and looking to improve on his tally of three goals in four games.

Stoke had agreed a £7.1million fee with Hoffenheim only for the move to break down over concerns about Ba's previous knee injury.

Coates told the Sentinel: 'There are no qualms about the decision we made. We would have taken the player had he passed the medical.

'But we were strongly advised by our medical team that it was a risk we could not take. You cannot spend large sums of money on a high-risk basis.

'We were disappointed, though, because we wanted to sign the player and the eventual decision was nothing to do with is ability.'




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Leyton Orient threaten legal action over West Ham move


Leyton Orient have threatened to sue the Premier League for tens of millions of pounds in damages if they do not reconsider their decision to allow West Ham to move to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford.

Orient believe that if West Ham move to the stadium, which is within a mile of their Brisbane Road home, then they will lose up to £1.5million a year.

Chairman Barry Hearn has repeatedly expressed his frustration and anger at how Orient have been treated and now the club have issued a nine-page document outlining their argument to Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore.

Orient, who travel to the Emirates to face Arsenal in an FA Cup fifth-round replay tonight, argue that the Premier League have undermined their own rules by giving West Ham the green light to move after London 2012.

In the Premier League rules section 6.5 of rule 1 states that a club may only move location provided the move ‘would not adversely affect clubs having their registered grounds in the immediate vicinity of the proposed location’.

The club have threatened High Court action if the decision is not either reversed or better explained by March 8.

The main concern for Orient's board is that West Ham's plan to sell tickets at drastically low prices will lure fans away from Brisbane Road and seriously jeopardise the long-term future of the club.

The League One club are represented by top sports law firm Mishcon de Reya and have already written to London Mayor Boris Johnson, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Eric Pickles, the secretary of state for Communities and Local Government in search of support for their case.

A 10-page document was sent last Friday, with copies also going to West Ham and to the Olympic Park Legacy Company. Now, Orient have turned their sights on the Premier League.

The club are confident they have a strong case - watch this space.





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Who will beat the drop and who's heading down? Sportsmail predicts the great Premier League relegation battle



Hands up, at the start of the campaign who really thought Blackpool would be four points outside the bottom three with 10 games to go?

In fact, who thought any of the promoted sides would be clear of the bottom three?

It’s been a totally unpredictable season in the Premier League which has seen a relegation battle have more twists than even Chubby Checker could handle.

But as we enter the time of season which Sir Alex Ferguson would call ‘squeaky bum time’, Sportsmail is willing to put its head on the block and give its verdict on the winners and losers in the battle to beat relegation.


HOW THEY WILL FINISH...
STAYING UP
11th Stoke – 47 points

Stoke’s home form alone means they will be safe from any potential relegation battle but picking up points on the road has been more than a struggle this season. As such Tony Pulis’ side will not be troubling a Europa League place but will also be as safe as houses come May.

West Ham (a) 0-2 L

Newcastle (h) 1-0 W

Chelsea (h) 1-0 W

Tottenham (a) 0-2 L

Wolves (h) 2-1 W

Aston Villa (a) 0-3 L

Blackpool (a) 1-1 D

Arsenal (h) 0-2 L

Manchester City (a) 0-1 L

Wigan (h) 2-0 W
12th Aston Villa – 46 points

At their lowest ebb this season Villa were in big trouble near the bottom of the table, but after bringing reinforcements in January, now have far too much strength to go down. In fact only a blip at the end of their season will deny the West Midlands side a place in the top 10.

Bolton (a) 1-2 L

Wolves (h) 2-1 W

Everton (a) 2-2 D

Newcastle (h) 2-1 W

West Ham (a) 1-1 D

Stoke (h) 3-0 W

West Brom (a) 1-3 L

Wigan (h) 1-1 D

Arsenal (a) 2-2 D

Liverpool (h) 2-3 L

13th Birmingham – 42 points

A Carling Cup hangover sees Birmingham pick up points but hardly any wins as the season draws to a close. They could still go down on the final day, but a win against a Tottenham side already guaranteed to finish fifth ensures that Europa League matches against Juventus will not be followed by away trips to Bournemouth.

West Brom (h) 1-1 D

Everton (a) 0-0 D

Wigan (a) 0-1 L

Bolton (h) 1-1 D

Blackburn (a) 1-2 L

Sunderland (h) 1-0 W

Chelsea (a) 1-3 L

Liverpool (a) 1-1 D

Wolves (h) 1-1 D

Newcastle (a) 0-1 L

Fulham (h) 0-0 D

Tottenham (a) 2-1 W
14th Fulham – 41 points

A mixed bag of fixtures to end the season for Mark Hughes’ side, who hit the ‘magic 40 points’ mark with a home win against Liverpool before securing survival a week later at Birmingham. It’s just as well, as they get tanked a week later by an Arsenal side bidding to win the title.

Blackburn (h) 3-1 W

Everton (a) 0-1 L

Blackpool (h) 1-2 L

Manchester United (a) 1-4 L

Bolton (h) 0-0 D

Wolves (a) 1-2 L

Sunderland (a) 1-1 D

Liverpool (h) 2-1 W

Birmingham (a) 0-0 D

Arsenal (h) 0-3 L

15th Blackpool - 41 points

Six homes games in the run-in should be an advantage for the Seasiders but they often struggle in front of their home fans. Their next few games will be their best chance of staying up as late season visits to Manchester United and Tottenham look set to end in tears, and lots of them.

Chelsea (h) 0-2 L

Blackburn (a) 3-2 W

Fulham (a) 2-1 W

Arsenal (h) 2-2 D

Wigan (h) 1-2 L

Newcastle (h) 1-2 L

Stoke (h) 1-1 D

Tottenham (a) 2-4 L

Bolton (h) 1-1 D

Manchester United (a) 0-5 L
16th West Ham – 40 points

An unbeaten home record in the final few games proves to be the tonic that makes the Hammers only the second side to be bottom at Christmas and go on to retain their Premier League status. Despite a late rally of consecutive home wins to secure their dramatic escape, Avram Grant still remains poker face after their final day survival against the Black Cats.

Stoke (h) 2-0 W

Tottenham (a) 1-2 L

Manchester United (h) 1-1 D

Bolton (a) 1-1 D

Aston Villa (h) 1-1 D

Chelsea (a) 0-2 L

Manchester City (a) 0-3 L

Blackburn (h) 2-1 W

Wigan (a) 0-1 L

Sunderland (h) 1-0 W

17th Wigan – 40 points

Rock bottom going into the final 10 games, the home game against West Ham in their penultimate game of the season is effectively their ‘cup final’. With an unattractive team bringing in nowhere near Premier League attendances, keeping the Latics up would make Roberto Martinez one of the managers of the season.


Manchester City (a) 0-3 L

Birmingham (h) 1-0 W

Tottenham (h) 0-2 L

Chelsea (a) 0-3 L

Blackpool (a) 2-1 W


Sunderland (a) 0-2 L

Everton (h) 1-0 W

Aston Villa (a) 1-1 D

West Ham (h) 1-0 W

Stoke (a) 0-2 L


RELEGATED
18th Wolves – 38 points

Despite a favourable run-in, four consecutive defeats put Mick McCarthy’s side in deep trouble. Nine points from their last five games is not enough as a final day draw against Blackburn takes them and Rovers down, when a win would keep either side up on goal difference.

Tottenham (h) 1-1 D

Aston Villa (a) 1-2 L

Newcastle (a) 0-2 L

Everton (h) 1-2 L

Stoke (a) 1-2 L


Fulham (h) 2-1 W

Birmingham (a) 1-1 D

West Brom (h) 1-0 W

Sunderland (a) 1-1 D

Blackburn (h) 2-2 D


19th Blackburn 38 points

Steve Kean’s inexperience shows up at the very wrong time as Blackburn’s awful away form continues under their new boss. Coupled with unfavourable home games against the two Manchester clubs, Rovers are relegated on the last day as neither they nor Wolves can take advantage of Wigan’s defeat to secure survival.

Fulham (a) 1-3 L

Blackpool (h) 2-3 L

Arsenal (a) 0-4 L

Birmingham (h) 2-1 W

Everton (a) 0-3 L

Manchester City (h) 1-1 D

Bolton (h) 1-1 D

West Ham (a) 1-2 L

Manchester United (h) 1-2 L

Wolves (a) 2-2 D

20th West Bromwich – 36 points

A season to forget for Roy Hodgson, who after being sacked from Liverpool can’t prevent West Brom from sliding to the very bottom of the table. Hodgson’s dreadful away record proves pivotal as a Black Country derby defeat at Wolves takes fate out of their own hands.

Birmingham (a) 1-1 D

Arsenal (h) 1-2 L

Liverpool (h) 1-2 L

Sunderland (a) 1-2 L

Chelsea (h) 0-2 L

Tottenham (a) 1-4 L

Aston Villa (h) 3-1 W

Wolves (a) 0-1 L

Everton (h) 1-0 W

Newcastle (a) 0-2 L



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Ba slams Hoffenheim coach



West Ham United's Senegalese striker Demba Ba has slammed Hoffenheim coach Ernst Tanner for ruining his reputation in the Bundesliga.


The 25-year-old fell out with Hoffenheim in January after failing to attend a training camp, which he insists he was given permission to miss but something Tanner denies.

Ba had been set to join Premier League side Stoke City, but a problem during the medical ruined a potential transfer at the last minute and he then joined West Ham before the transfer window closed at the end of January.

The African says his reputation in Germany has been destroyed by Hoffenheim and revealed he had turned down a lucrative offer from Russian side Rubin Kazan.

"Mr Tanner has ruined my image in the Bundesliga," Ba told German magazine Sport Bild.

"I only heard these words: 'Demba is only after money'. The truth is that I could have earned much more money elsewhere.

"I was presented with an offer from Rubin Kazan. They wanted to pay a 15 million euros ($20.47 million) fee. I could have earned much more there than at West Ham.

"It's not all about money for me."

But Ba's behaviour has won him few fans in Germany and Hoffenheim owner Dietmar Hopp said the player's attitude left it with no other option than to sell him.

"If there were a solidarity fund in the Bundesliga to punish players like him, we'd pay into it," Hopp told SID, a subsidiary of AFP.

"If we had left Ba sitting in the stands, we would have paid him a total of 4.5 million euros ($6.14 million) of basic salary up to the end of his contract.

"Now, if everything goes well, we will get five million euros ($6.82 million) of transfer money."

Tanner insists Ba never had permission to miss the training camp.

"Demba wants to put himself in a positive light, but that is just a flat lie," said Tanner.

"He was always told that he could not leave during the winter, we had told him that he had to work."

Having made no secret of his desire to move to England throughout January, Ba has been impressive at Upton Park.




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West Ham clean up balance sheet



• Pre-tax loss rises but Hammers staff costs are cut
• Club renegotiates loans but £26m pumped in by shareholders


Olympic Park West Ham West Ham are still celebrating their successful bid for tenancy of the Olympic Stadium and they have suffered only one defeat in their last six matches. Photograph: David Goddard/Getty Images

West Ham United are in a much better place than even one month ago. Winning the Olympic Stadium tenancy has coincided with only one defeat in their last six matches. But there has been a hidden and arguably far more important reason for the Hammers to be happy: their detritus-ridden balance sheet is at last being cleaned up.

The accounts to 31 May last year show a £20.6m pre-tax loss, which is £4.4m higher than that of the previous year. But the financial fundamentals of the club are far healthier than in recent seasons. Although a £6.2m fall in distributions from the Premier League shrunk cashflow – West Ham finished in 17th place compared with the ninth of the previous year – Davids Gold and Sullivan have been able to strip out £13m of staff costs (mostly from players). This has caused the club's wages-to-turnover ratio to fall to 70% from a completely unsustainable 79%.

A £10m debt owed to Straumur has been converted into shares and remaining loans have a smoother repayment profile. The club had been in breach of banking covenants on £38.5m of debt. This was dire straits: lenders could technically demand immediate repayment. But last month the loans were renegotiated. Now the £38.5m need be repaid only at the end of 2013.

There remain areas of concern. There is the relegation threat, the fact that the final instalment on their £21.5m compensation to Sheffield United will not be paid until 2013, that the healthy figures were only possible due to £26m of shareholder cash pumped in over the year and that £7.3m of next season's ticket income has been sold forward. But at least West Ham are still standing.





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West Ham's move to Olympic Stadium to be approved despite legal threat

• Barry Hearn warns Premier League he will sue
• Leyton Orient also send warning letter to the government


Barry-Hearn-Leyton-Orient-West-Ham-Olympic Stadium Barry Hearn, the Leyton Orient owner, has vowed to take legal action over West Ham's proposed move to the Olympic Stadium. Photograph: David Levene

The government and the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, are on Thursday expected to rubber-stamp the decision to award the Olympic Stadium to West Ham United and Newham council after the Games, despite Leyton Orient threatening to take legal action.

Last month the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) decided only the joint bid from West Ham and Newham, which proposed to retain the athletics track, met all its criteria for legacy use following a bitterly fought battle between the east London club and Tottenham Hotspur.

But despite fresh warnings from the owner of neighbouring Orient, Barry Hearn, that he will consider legal action, it is believed that the government and the mayor – each 50% shareholders in the OPLC – have resolved to give the go-ahead and will announce their decision in a written statement to parliament on Thursday.

Lawyers and advisers for Spurs, who believe that a stadium with an athletics track is unsustainable and proposed to build a dedicated football ground in its place, are also still believed to be reviewing the process by which the decision was reached.

Hearn has formally warned the Premier League that he will sue for damages if it does not satisfactorily explain how the decision was arrived at.

Hearn confirmed warning letters from Orient's law firm, Mishcon de Reya, have also been sent to the government, City Hall, the OPLC and West Ham. The Orient owner believes the Premier League breached its own rules and has asked for a response by the beginning of next week.

He fears Orient's crowds will be damaged if West Ham introduce cut-price tickets to fill the 60,000-seat stadium, which is due to open in time for the 2013-14 season after £95m of conversion work. West Ham's vice-chair, Karren Brady, has claimed that an entire family will be able to watch at the Olympic Stadium for the price of a single ticket at Upton Park.

The OPLC has maintained it followed transparent and fair criteria, and the Premier League believes it gave the matter due consideration but decided in December it did not have the power to block either Spurs or West Ham moving to the Olympic Stadium.

But Orient point to Premier League rules that state clubs moving grounds must not "adversely affect the clubs having their registered grounds in the immediate vicinity of the proposed location".

Hearn has posited a variety of possible remedies, including the possibility of compensation or helping Orient move to a new modern ground in the shadow of West Ham's proposed new home. He has talked of converting the Olympic hockey stadium into a new ground or building a new stadium in the Eton Manor area of the Olympic site, a plan that he last week claimed was backed by local authorities.

Once the OPLC's decision to make West Ham their preferred bidder has been approved, it will enter detailed negotiations with the aim of signing a binding contract with a new company set up by the club and Newham council to house the lease by the end of this month
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Newcastle are interested in signing 30-year-old former Liverpool defender John Arne Riise from Roma as a replacement for Jose Enrique, who could be on his way to Anfield.
Daily Mirror

Udinese chairman Franco Soldati says a bid of about £25.4m has been made for striker Alexis Sanchez. The 22-year-old has been linked with Manchester United and Chelsea but Soldati refused to identify the bidder. (Sky Italia)


Everton striker Yakubu wants to sign a permanent deal at Leicester City if they are promoted to the Premier League.
Daily Mirror

West Ham's bid to take over the Olympic stadium is set to be rubber-stamped by the government and London mayor Boris Johnson.
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West Ham skipper Matthew Upson says his 21-year-old defensive colleague James Tomkins has what it takes to play for England.
Daily Mirror


The Football Association wants Manchester United's TV station MUTV to send them the recording in which manager Sir Alex Ferguson criticises referee Martin Atkinson following his club's 2-1 loss to Chelsea.
Daily Mirror

Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas is confident he can shrug off his hamstring injury to play Barcelona in the Champions League on 8 March.
Full story: Daily Mail


Deportivo Pereira defender Luis Moreno has apologised after the owl he kicked off the pitch in a Colombian league match died.
Daily Mirror



Vehicles to avoid

Whether Cardiff City's loan agreement with the Player Finance Fund, which was revealed here on Wednesday is the subject of a Football League inquiry, has broken any rules depends on the involvement or otherwise of Ray Ranson. The Coventry City owner manages the Sport Asset Capital hedge fund that Cardiff's parent company accounts say had been owed £3.5m by the club. When that debt was renegotiated, the Player Finance Fund loan was secured against Cardiff's player-transfer income. This mortgage might bring into play rules preventing interested parties from exercising third-party influence over another's administrative affairs. Perhaps, though, Ranson has nothing at all to do with the Fund. But it is impossible to tell, since the Fund is registered offshore in the Cayman Islands. The rules become pretty meaningless when influence can be exercised by impenetrably opaque offshore vehicles. An end to clubs and lenders being controlled by offshore entities (remember what happened to the Sven-era Notts County, Leeds United in 2007 and Portsmouth last year?) is imperative.
Gills under water?

According to Companies House, Gillingham's 2010 accounts are overdue. If what the high court heard this week is true – although according to the Watford Observer the judge did say the club's chairman, Paul Scally, was not "an open and candid witness at all times" – then there appears to be good reason not to lay bare the club's finances. For in a case brought by Jimmy Russo, a former Watford chairman, the judge was told that Gillingham are £13.5m in debt. That astonishing figure bears no relation to the sums owing to creditors listed in the club's most recent accounts, to 31 May 2009. These are put at less than £4.5m, so whence the other £9m of debt has apparently arisen is anybody's guess. Digger wanted to ask Scally but he did not return a call yesterday.
Lack of taste

William Hill has pushed the taste barrier to breaking point with its latest book. When will the next footballer come out as gay, it is asking punters: this season, during the close season, next season or beyond? Hill's spokesman, Graham Sharpe, told Digger that since the cricketer Steven Davies had joined the rugby player Gareth Thomas in coming out the subject is a talking point, making it legitimate to bet on. Perhaps this market was born of banter at the Hill's office about who would be the next footballer to come out. "Absolutely not," said Sharpe. "Absolutely not."
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Cheers CH, always appreciate the effort!
Not overly worried about the books TBH, things are generally better, but we must stay up, getting relegated would throw us into really stormy waters! :crest:
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Thank you Sir CH :crest:
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A side issue, but Gameiro is a £15m striker and there is no chance we will sign him any time soon.

That aside - some positive news. Cheers Cockney fella :crest:
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Actually I have a complaint no babe of the day

Please sort out, or I will be forced to escalate the matter to UTJ. :lol:
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What do the journos expect Stoke to say? "Yes, we made a huge mistake and Ba should have been given a contract with payrise whenever he scored, so he would have cost us much now. But it would surely have been worth it as he now will hunt us down in two games in a row. Our medics did oh so wrong..."?
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What Upson really was saying was that "...if I can play for England, then anyone can...."
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"If we had left Ba sitting in the stands, we would have paid him a total of 4.5 million euros ($6.14 million) of basic salary up to the end of his contract.

"Now, if everything goes well, we will get five million euros of transfer money."
It's early days, but the more I see of Ba and the more I hear about the deal, the more I think we may have got the bargain of the transfer window. We're certainly owed one after the amount of coin we've wasted the past few years
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Cheers CH :thup:

Upson confirming what most knew was possible for Tomkins..if Capello is serious about giving young English talent it's chance, throw him into the squad for the Wales game.

Stoke aren't going to admit to looking a right bunch of p**cks for not signing Ba - AG did that for them by pointing out that badly injured players don't already have 21 games behind them in a season....medical said no..

Barry Hearn seems to have scared the s**t out of everyone, so much so, he's worried them into doing what they were going to do anyway. Credibility for his argument is laid bare by the Guardian article...short of his 'Levy arse-licking' need to be used by the filth as their protagonist in this farce, I don't get how such an astute businessman could think he can pull this off with such b*llocks for an argument.
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Cheers CH :thup:
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lukeWHU wrote:What Upson really was saying was that "...if I can play for England, then anyone can...."
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Cheers CH :thup:

Fckn Stoke "we didn't want Ba cos of hsi knees",aye right if they had a half a chance of signing Cole they would have and his knees seem more fckd than Ba's
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This is flippin' eeeerie.... look at hammers BOTD no#1....
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Cheers CH ... I'm actually glad to have 2 dodgy kneed strikers at the Club... and one small Irishman with cramp !!
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cheers CH :thup:
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I think the easiest response to Barry Hearn would be for the premier league to say - ok lets see what happens over 5 years. If your club is seriously affected then we will pay you compensation, rather than him sueing for millions based on what MIGHT happen but probably wont.

It also says that Orient WERE consulted and that Orient were supporting Spurs' move. So whats the difference between Spurs moving there and West Ham? Nothing....so is he saying he would have sued if Spurs had won too?
I have no problem in Orient sueing the premier league, they need the money, so long as we don't end up owing anything from it.
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Not one for the most sensitive :shock: from 28 seconds
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Bristol City sign up West Ham's Jordan Spence on loan


Spence has Championship experience with Scunthorpe
Bristol City have signed West Ham right-back and England Under-19 international Jordan Spence on loan.
The 20-year-old has made one substitute appearance for the Hammers but has had first-team experience on loan at both Leyton Orient and Scunthorpe.
City hope to extend the initial one-month deal to the end of the season.
In the absence of captain Louis Carey, who has been filling in at right-back in recent games, Spence is set to start at Coventry on Saturday.
"I don't think anywhere's easy to go but I'm prepared for it and will give it a go," Spence told BBC Radio Bristol after training with the City squad for the first time on Thursday morning.
"I was hoping somebody would come in for me so I've been ready and preparing myself physically and mentally for the opportunity.
"I'm here to play and do well for Bristol City first and foremost, and then the experience and where that takes me will be a positive thing as well.
"I operate at right-back or centre-half. I'd like to say I'm a composed defender, I've obviously been brought up playing football at West Ham, and one of my key attributes is that I'm quite quick, I'm decent across the grass and I look to get forward when the time's right."

Carey, 34, fractured his skull in the home win against Scunthorpe on Saturday and the injury is worse than was first thought with the skipper potentially missing for the rest of the season.
"Louis will be out for at least six to eight weeks," manager Keith Millen told BBC Radio Bristol.
"It's an injury we can't take any chances on and we have to respect what the specialists are saying. It's going to be a long time before he's allowed any contact in football, so we're all disappointed.
"It leaves us short but we've kept an eye on Jordan for a while now.
"We watched him in West Ham's reserves, he has Championship experience playing 11 games for Scunthorpe and we've done our homework, speaking to a lot of people.
"He's a great lad and he wants to learn and improve his game. He's a good athlete, quick and strong, and a good size and is a good addition to the squad. He looked decent in training."
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Cheers CH.
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