West Ham FC Rumours

08 Jun 2026 11:43:17
Bowen! All WH players have relegation clauses in their contracts since 2019

This is without exception. If WH want to keeo certain players, and pay them more than the 50% wage deduction, which is automatic.



Then it’s a different matter, that is a negotiation, nothing to do with original contract.

No members of WH squad have get out clauses, exemptions or anything like that, it’s media nonsense.

08 Jun 2026 18:33:40
I agree Clareandblueman, we should pay more to keep players like Bowen.

08 Jun 2026 11:08:10
Sullivan obviously has already seen tonight’s programme.

He has apparently engaged, the same KC he used in the Paqueta case and another that specialises in libel and defamation cases, Two KCs, Hmmm?

He intends to sue for millions. BBC best make sure they have their facts right

11 Jun 2026 05:39:21
He's had that show cancelled twice, but couldn't succeed this time. He's a monster. ⚒️⚒️⚒️

08 Jun 2026 10:39:28
PSG. Have at last come in for Fernandes.

But, however, to the astonishment of WH, the player doesn’t want to go there!

He prefers Man Utd, which can make a problem. MU are presently stuck on £60 m inc add ons.

WH have turned it away, and are sticking to larger valuation. A big bid from someone else is needed to move this on.

08 Jun 2026 07:48:30
The news seems to be getting even better as it seems Sullivans' kids don’t want to play any role in West Ham and Sullivan will be selling his shares. If this is the case, I suppose DK buys them. Some of us have been critical of him for not actually helping West Ham financially in the past.

But I would be much more happy knowing the Sullivan dynasty no longer have anything to do with West Ham. At least DK will try and run the club in the proper modern way in which most teams in the upper echelons do. Rome wasn’t built in a day but if true this is great.

11 Jun 2026 05:42:38
KRETINSKY said he wouldn't put no money in while SULLIVAN was majority shareholder he's a very quiet man we've basically not heard a peep out of him in 2 years but he's a very powerful man hopefully he buys the predator out otherwise amanda shelvey is very interested how true is this please Ed?? ⚒️⚒️⚒️

{Ed001's Note - Staveley has been interested in a while, but she stepped away after finding out about the programme. She didn't want the issues for her clients which may stem from it as Sullivan would not sell up completely then. Knowing her, she will be back now to step up in with an offer to buy him out. She wanted a full buyout of his shareholding from the start, as her and her clients want a majority shareholding.}

12 Jun 2026 22:49:12
Thank you for your response and Information. ? ⚒️ ⚒️ ⚒️

07 Jun 2026 10:30:21
Syd Peck, don’t get too nailed down on this one, Brentford and Forest, are in front of WH here. Basically it will come down to the following

Does the player want football or sit on the bench in the Premier.

Also they can pay more wages, so this is far from a done deal, it’s a possible, certainly not any more.

07 Jun 2026 12:36:31
Will any prospective ins / outs / appointments not be put on hold until the boardroom situation is resolved?

07 Jun 2026 14:40:52
Good shout, Tin. That would make sense at a lot of clubs who would be working hard on a director of football.

I can only think the lack of any movement in any direction is because of this Sullivan scandal.

07 Jun 2026 17:41:05
I'm concerned with the lack of news about share ownership. Maybe the FA might provide the solution after the broadcast of Panorama? In any case, we're moving in the right direction. ??

07 Jun 2026 19:30:54
Without trying to prejudge what allegations the Panorama program will highlight, and as I have heard various, I think with many of these types of scandals it is a case of getting the story out there and seeing whether others come forward with similar accusations.

So, if that were to happen, I would think he would be forced to sell his shareholding, as it may be deemed by the FA that he is not a fit and proper individual to be a major shareholder in a club.

12 Jun 2026 22:53:52
We could be without a ground, as I don't trust Khan one bit, but the London Stadium is costing taxpayers a fortune, but for not informing the owners of the London Stadium about the predators ban on being near the girls team and the youth team, so we could be in breach of the contract, so could well be homeless.

I don't think this will happen unless a buyer sees the potential in the land. ⚒️⚒️⚒️

06 Jun 2026 12:14:17
Sullivan has gone.

06 Jun 2026 12:54:50
There is a god, finally. And now we might actually have a club run professionally with a proper vision of the future.

Praise be.

06 Jun 2026 12:55:25
Told you at Christmas, the documentary was coming and there is going to be change at the top.

06 Jun 2026 13:04:05
Hopefully we may start to recover now.

06 Jun 2026 13:13:14
Yep, you were spot on, Peter.
The only thing that worries me is, I've just read Jack Sullivan is now doing all the transfer related stuff, so he will be being advised by daddy Sullivan. ?

06 Jun 2026 13:18:13
Yeh, even though he's stepped down, he's still a majority shareholder and it wouldn't surprise me to see a puppet in the boardroom.

06 Jun 2026 13:29:28
I reckon you will see our accounting period extended to the end of June. DK will buy the Gold shares and then force Sullivan to sell to him by putting the money needed into the club to balance the books. And then comes the purchase of the Stadium in the autumn.

06 Jun 2026 14:05:44
I hope you are right, Peter.

06 Jun 2026 15:36:56
If we are gonna buy that stadium, then changes to it have to be made.

I was wondering why it has been so quiet, and perhaps Sullivan leaving is the calm before the storm.

06 Jun 2026 15:48:45
The money has to surely be in the land around the ground. I know, because of the ground underneath, you can't build houses, but surely you can build retail, warehouses, data warehouses and commercial?

06 Jun 2026 16:35:38
Without wishing to blow my own trumpet. I've been saying for months that Sullivan was going. I've known it since October. ⚒️⚒️⚒️

06 Jun 2026 18:35:28
I didn't say what Christmas 7580. I've known since Christmas 1980!

06 Jun 2026 21:23:05
I imagine the reason is stuff outside of football that has made him do this rather than pure footballing reasons.

06 Jun 2026 22:19:21
Someone needs to buy his shares, Hammer D, or it means nothing. He hasn't gone at all. He will appoint a stooge to sit on the board, and, knowing how he works, will tell us all how stupid we were if we don't get promotion this year.

It's certainly a step in the right direction, but until he's completely gone im still not going to be happy!

07 Jun 2026 06:27:09
Yeah, you can already see the comments from the pundits. Well, the fans have blamed numerous managers, they've got rid of a great businesswoman and a chairman, and still they moan...

I think the thing that is gonna bring him down is possibly much bigger, and may put him in the toxic division depending on the scale.



But you are right, it is definitely a step in the right direction.

11 Jun 2026 05:49:37
Hi hammer 7580 its been common knowledge for the last 2 years that he was walking on very thin ice and he was a wrong un there is a lot worse to come a friend of mine knows a girl that was abused by the dirty pervert sullivan and that 30 min show was very mild compared to what he really is the man thinks because he's got a few quid he can treat women like trash and get what he wants but its backfired bigtime and the SULLIVANS are well and truly done at WHUFC and we have finally got our club back

05 Jun 2026 12:19:24
Dylan Lawlor Cb. Cardiff attracting WH.

Adama Traore, Elche in Spain trying to make a deal. Nuno wants to hold onto him but he would prefer to move back to Spain.

Villa are the dark horse in the pursuit of Summerville; they can certainly outbid the others if they wish to.



ON!Y my opinion, I am not in the least impressed, with the standard, of players WH are currently looking at; it’s all very well looking at future players, but WH need to put together a team to return to the premiership.


WH are in danger of underestimating the opposition.

05 Jun 2026 14:04:51
Hi Joyful, is it not more likely that the squad needs increasing with the extra games that will be played? I can't see the better signings being identified until we're in a position to purchase, ie post sales.

05 Jun 2026 15:19:28
Depends which way you look at things.
The players we are selling must come eventually to more than the current debt. Please remember, a portion of the debt is for outstanding owings on transfers; they don’t have to be paid off quicker just because West Ham dropped a division, and on many of the previous transfers there is no clause to close the debt off either, so West Ham will just continue to pay off previous transfers after a player has been sold on.

West Ham will receive £45 m parachute payment next month, so to be honest, I don’t see where the panic is!


If West Ham build a team out of cheap transfers and free transfers, they will be lucky to stay in the Championship! Never mind get promoted.


The jury is out for now, of course, let’s see... Joyfull.

06 Jun 2026 12:56:03
And the clock is ticking.

11 Jun 2026 05:52:52
Im so looking forward to a transfer window where our business is made public and we are linked with every tom dick and harry by Shaun whetstone sullivans little puppet and silkman, Salthouse etc ????⚒️⚒️⚒️

12 Jun 2026 22:57:14
Sorry, our business isn't made public by these ITKs. They are well and truly out of WHUFC and cannot control the narrative no more. ??????⚒️⚒️⚒️

04 Jun 2026 13:48:11
Wolves now stealing a march on WH as they consider Vipotnik, WH need players tested at this level, never mind, just sleep on.

04 Jun 2026 15:43:13
We need the best players from this league, and he is obviously one of them. What are they waiting for? So frustrating. ?

04 Jun 2026 16:47:50
Don't want to be a misery, lads, but nothing is gonna change at West Ham until all the board go and are replaced with a professional organisation. They all know the things to say to pacify the fans temporarily. What is the point of not having a DOF in place before the season ended? If they were really serious about this, they would have done that.

But we are now gonna get some sort of Max Hahn, Tim Stiedten, Rob Newman hybrid that has no real clout, probably about a month before the season starts. They know they have messed up big time and are now playing the game of covering each other's ar@e. There is no grand plan; it's the same old story. Why should we be so surprised.

04 Jun 2026 18:53:39
It's as we keep saying. This letter told us all what they were going to do and nothing.

DofF by season's end? Lying again.

Rebuilding as soon as possible? Another lie!

We are committed to the future of the club? Total BS.

Why are our owners not digging deep into their billions to clear our debts and then recoup from player sales?

Sick of hearing how we are interested in when we have the basics in place.



As was stated elsewhere, Sullivan will do all our recruitment AGAIN so another disaster in the pipeline.

Sick of being lied to.

04 Jun 2026 19:41:58
Yep, apparently we have until the end of June to put in their own money to clear the debts and pay for signings. Obviously we know Sullivan isn't gonna do it. Or, if he did, he would charge loan-shark rates of interest. The mood music after we were relegated seemed to be Kretinsky would.

I don't think he will, and would be happy if I'm wrong. What makes me die is that he will get his money back, but if he has any decency, it will be an interest-free loan. But either way, I don't think he will spend a penny of his own money.

04 Jun 2026 21:12:34
Which demonstrates just how things will be changing, as per "the letter to fans".

It's just the same old story time after time. They talk a good talk, but that's about all they do.



Personally, more annoyed about this Director of Football situation, because we can't in all honesty do any proper recruitment and establish direction without one, and we all know what will happen if it's left to Sullivan!!

04 Jun 2026 21:20:41
Maybe they are heading for the line, "Well, we tried the DOF route, which failed, so we go back to the tried and untrusted method of low ball or no ball offers, and favoured agents BS WS and JM."

05 Jun 2026 12:29:17
It's season ticket renewal time, so expect the propaganda to continue with absolutely nothing real to back it up.

05 Jun 2026 17:25:55
I have actually renewed my season ticket, but am a bit too long in the tooth to believe the garbage our board pump out. I'm sure some fools do, though. I've been saying for the last 10 years that I'm not gonna renew! I will wait until we drop to the National Conference League, probably in about 3 years' time. ?

11 Jun 2026 06:21:32
Hi Claretandblueman, Vipotnik has signed a contract extension till 2030, so it would cost us far too much money. Forget that one, m8. ⚒️⚒️⚒️

04 Jun 2026 09:52:46
Something is amiss here on information being given to WH fans re Fernandes, stating Man United have not done anything concrete regarding this player. Untrue.


Man Utd have two people now, in London, they are meeting with WH this morning, to discuss the price and the structure of payments etc for the player.



WH must hold firm here, as United are trying to rush a deal through to beat other interested clubs.


Man United agreed full terms with Fernandes yesterday.

04 Jun 2026 18:54:23
How is it Man Utd are buying players and we've done nothing.

04 Jun 2026 09:38:11
Bissaka, further to previous post Fenerbache, have got the green light from Wh, the player has agreed terms

Whether their forthcoming bid will be successful is another story. Wh have indicated to the Turkish club that lowball offers will be shunned, story is Fenerbache want to pay £8 m, Wh want £15 m so they are a long way apart

We shall see?