West Ham musings by Pete May, author of Hammers in the Heart, West Ham:Irons in the Soul and Flying So High:West Ham's Cup Finals.
Wednesday, June 27
Where's our money gone?
Interesting story in today's Daily Mail. Apparently West Ham are still owed £1.5 million from Brescia for Allesandro Diamanti. He was sold for £2million (and cost us £6 million!) and has since moved to Bologna. The club is now going to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to try to get the dosh…
2 comments:
matt
said...
We did actually know this, the story has just been revived cos he has shot to prominence in the Euros. There is speculation he will start in place of Cassano tonight.
Why it is taking so long to get our money, who knows? As we know, we never do well out of this Byzantine quasi-legal cases - exhibit A being the ridiculous ruling in favour of Sheffield Utd over Tevezgate
Pete May is the author of Hammers in the Heart and West Ham: Irons in the Soul (both Mainstream). His latest book is There's A Hippo in My Cistern (Collins).
2 comments:
We did actually know this, the story has just been revived cos he has shot to prominence in the Euros. There is speculation he will start in place of Cassano tonight.
Why it is taking so long to get our money, who knows? As we know, we never do well out of this Byzantine quasi-legal cases - exhibit A being the ridiculous ruling in favour of Sheffield Utd over Tevezgate
Yes, I'd seen story before but thought it had been settled by now. £1.5million might pay for three players like Vaz Te...
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