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Based upon all available information, who would you prefer to take ownership of West Ham United FC?

Poll ended at Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:36 pm

Intermarket
54
14%
David Gold & David Sullivan
141
36%
Tony Fernandes
180
46%
A.N Other
13
3%
 
Total votes: 388

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A simple one based on the latest information ...
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G+S for me. they have the experience of running a football club and achieving in line with resources. the same at our club should see consistent 10th place or so...we seriously need a couple of seasons of stability IMO.

like fernandes too but the experience of G+S (added to the expectation they'd bring in brady and dux can do one) just edges it for me.
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Is it only me who cannot stand Brady ?
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i would :thup:
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own up, who voted for Intermarket?
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cockney hammer wrote:http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/0 ... 68x704.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

i would :thup:
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I would like to vote Intermarket because it seems they have money, however lets be honest we know nothing about them so until that changes I can't vote for them.

Gold & Sullivan do have the experience but lack the resources, it would be good to get some stability but we need some investment, and well 8m/10m transfer kitty won't get everything we need. There is also a nagging feeling that it would always be what's best for G&S not what's best for West Ham.

Tony Fernandes perhaps could be a good option, seems to have some money, and is a West Ham fan who seems to have some passion for the club. Thats my vote for now.
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Is that what you look at when you are in the cupboard?


i was shagging it in the cupboard :wink:
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Post by pennywisepeter »

The problem is, we really don't know much about any of the bids and the groups who may or may not have made them.

So I voted Fernandes just because he's a West Ham fan :lol:
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aaronhammer wrote:I would like to vote Intermarket because it seems they have money, however lets be honest we know nothing about them so until that changes I can't vote for them.

.
How does that work? :lol:
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Tony Fernandes or G+S, I don't really have a preference between the two. Maybe they could even team up - Fernandes is a busy man, but could keep an eye on G+S ;). Just get the icelandics out and don't replace them with another set of chancers, bankers or anonymous fraudsters like intermarket.
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Matt of iron wrote: How does that work? :lol:
What I meant was if you believe the paper talk about them, but then we don't know who is behind them or if they are real. :wink:
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aaronhammer wrote:I would like to vote Intermarket because it seems they have money, however lets be honest we know nothing about them so until that changes I can't vote for them.
Gudmundsson seemed to have money too.
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Ariksan wrote:
Gudmundsson seemed to have money too.
He did - Other peoples money.....
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Ariksan wrote:Just get the icelandics out and don't replace them with another set of chancers, bankers or anonymous fraudsters like intermarket.
The Icelandics need to go ASAP, they have brought the club to it's knees and there is no leeway for taking any more....

Icelandics OUT
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cant ever see us challenging for a top six place,with G/S so voted for a n other!!
in my lifetime,i want to see us compete at the top,and not just be a mediocre club,wishing for the odd cup run....
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at the moment i would take anyone to be honest, my preference would be G&S running the joint, backed by fernandes. Then we would have a chance of competing
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noble art wrote:cant ever see us challenging for a top six place,with G/S so voted for a n other!!
G & S, and the poor Brady failed to transform Brum. They took a lower top-tier, upper championship club and left it there. They failed to rebrand it or reach new audiences. They bought at the start of the boom, an asset in the second city, with disastrous finances and recent incompetence, by simply running it as a normal business, as football boomed, they rose. The biggest plus on their track record is the manager they selected, the biggest minus is their failure to invest. They clearly see a club as a tradeable asset, and whilst we know next to nothing about the alternatives, we do know G & S would want managers to work miracles, would issue statmentes about fans needing to be patient, and would simply leave us yo-yoing at a time when clubs like Burnley, Stoke, and Hull have outperformed G & S reasonable feats with Brum.

G & S would see any two from Sunderland, Newcastle, Cardiff, QPR, Birmingham, Leeds, establish themselves above West Ham, would ensure years, aeons of attempting to finish 12th, and facing the odd relegation (at which point they invest enough to return but no more).

The alternatives as next owners are gambles but Ill take a gamble over guaranteed soulless mediocrity.

G & S = West Ham fans.
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Fdi,

G&S took over a club sliding towards the third tier of English football. They rebuilt the ground, tripled the attendance and gained promotion to the top flight within seven years. Since then Brum have spent all but two seasons in the Premier League and have a healthy balance sheet that allows the Birmingham squad to be strenghtened when needed.

I call that the basis of a good CV, I don't really want an owner that buys us players through crippling loans.

I do want an owner with the experience and expertise in turning around a club that is in freefall.
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where's the fun in that Trap!!
i see your point in stability,however i want to see us challenge,not just exist
its not the west ham way..... :crest:
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