04 Sep 2026 08:39:25
Very careful negotiations between existing shareholders end up with Sullivan/Tripp owning exactly 51%?

What a surprise. If that isn't a come on to Staveley to put her money where her mouth is, I don't know what is.

1.) 04 Sep 2026
04 Sep 2026 09:44:12
I find it quite repulsive that our current top man in the board room DK has shown his true colours and is working hand in glove with that despicable little man Sullivan. I don't know if it is to keep Staveley out or to make her pay more to try to get any sort of control.

Either way Sullivan will benefit. The current pigs have their heads firmly in the trough

2.) 04 Sep 2026
04 Sep 2026 10:46:41
WH is your club, my club, but it's also a business. Who would you rather have in control, Kretinsky or Sullivan? You have just answered the question.

3.) 04 Sep 2026
04 Sep 2026 11:30:59
Kretinsky is not working with Sullivan, he bought his allocated rights as he was always going to. As did Sullivan and Tripp.

Sullivan had nothing to do with WH any longer, there is no collusion, he is a large shareholder that's it.

As such, he is entitled to visit both home and away games, he is not allowed any inner sanctum entries, he has zero to do with the running or any decisions made by WH.



Sullivan is 80% responsible for the situation we find ourselves in today.

When he disposes of his shares, to whom and for whatever is his sole and private business, he has no friends at WH.

4.) 05 Sep 2026
05 Sep 2026 08:34:22
Thank you, Joyful, for setting the record. Some seem to be thinking that DK was in collusion with Sully. Staverley showed her hand straight away by saying they would buy the LS and land. This wasn't for West Ham's benefit; it was for her and her cronies. If they did buy the land and stadium, there would be nothing stopping the doubling or trebling of the rent. And then coming out with all that crap about building us a new stadium.

First question is, where? Second is, how can someone with a wealth of only 150 million commit to spending over a billion on a new stadium? Does she really think we are all that stupid. The other question is, why would they? It makes zero financial sense. DK might not be what we want, but he is better than someone who got involved with the purchases on City and the barcodes for one reason only: money!

{Ed001's Note - Staveley doesn't use her own money, she never does. She is a front. She brings together consortiums and then fronts them and they give her the money to invest. Her wealth is irrelevant, it is not her money.}

5.) 05 Sep 2026
05 Sep 2026 10:20:25
Correct, plus I understand there is another consortium named Silver Lake, so she's fronting four groups presently in all.

Her plan wasn't to improve the stadium, but to demolish it. Ok, first small matter is where WH are going to play for the next three years?

There is virtually nowhere in East London that has the volume of land with accessible routes available.

So a scheme involving a move out on the M11 to Harlow was briefly put forward for a whole new stadium complex, with its own road.

Sounds great, however, it's miles from any public connections.

So without a vehicle, you're not getting there, and then you need space for thousands of parked cars. All a bit fantasy island stuff.

I do not see any return for Sullivan. He sees a big chance to maximise his holdings. Ok, that's it. Everything he touches is to the detriment of WH. Yes, on paper he could block issues etc, will he? Make him look even worse, doubt it. He wants one last big pay day, that's it

6.) 05 Sep 2026
05 Sep 2026 10:13:30
I know that Ed, I am not daft, but she talks like it's her money and she can't be making stupid statements as some people believe her. There is no way anyone would invest 1billion on a stadium, what would be the benefit to them? There would be stipulations if anyone bought the land and stadium and not demolishing the LS would be one of them

7.) 05 Sep 2026
05 Sep 2026 11:23:04
He isn't going to block anything because he doesn't want to appear even worse!
Come on Joyful! That man has skin like a rhino. He attends games at a stadium where he is thoroughly hated and at the end of last season had about 40K of fans from both teams chanting that he's a sex offender! Yet he continues to go.

As for staveley, nobody actually thought she was investing her own money as Ed says she never does. I've heard she wants to run a club.

But she was open about things the consortium wanted to do. Whereas DK announced he would buy the Gold shares in June but he just didn't bother so you can't blame the Gold family being P-d off
DK has his own wealth mainly in the form if properties and businesses. He did a great job getting decent prices for our players in the transfer window but when is he actually going to pouch some of it back into the club. If or when he does I will say fair enough maybe I was wrong about him. But I just see him as an asset stripper with no real heart for the club or fans. He hasn't even attended games

8.) 05 Sep 2026
05 Sep 2026 11:59:43
You're entitled to your opinion, as is everybody else. Sullivan just doesn't want to disappear from view, like an old actor making one film too many.

But he's fringe now. Staveley has four moves; she can buy out Sullivan, maybe Tripp, even Kretinsky, or the whole lot, but it's going to be double or more what her backers want to pay.



It's business. She's now on the back foot, over to you Staveley.

9.) 05 Sep 2026
05 Sep 2026 12:02:15
The Staverley bid for the Gold shares stopped Dk investing. Joyful covered this on one of his previous posts.

10.) 05 Sep 2026
05 Sep 2026 12:21:18
How much has DK invested in Sparta Prague, his boyhood club? I'm interested, because from what I know it isn't a lot, and that's his boyhood club. As for any delusion that he was going to invest but Staveley's bid stopped it, no it didn't, it just gave him an excuse not to. He still had 1st dibs on all the shares, so could have bought whenever, so why would it have stopped him investing? In fact, I believe if he had invested, other shareholders would have had to match his investment percentage-wise, or he could have taken over there and then.



As for Sullivan not being involved in any decision making, yes he is. He owns 40 % of the shares, giving him a significant vote on any business affecting the club, so 100% he can still influence things.

11.) 05 Sep 2026
05 Sep 2026 13:20:55
Let me be clear, it matters not to me who is in charge at West Ham, as long as it is either to the benefit of West Ham or not to their detriment.

Staveley tried a mini hostile takeover. It did not work. It was never going to work. Kretinsky can call on any amount of cash when he needs it, so he was always going to buy the shares.

Sullivan would always want maximum return for his shares, so any thought she was going to buy West Ham for cheap was delusional.



Sullivan is not allowed into any board meetings in person. Yes, he can be represented by proxy. I am not a clairvoyant, I can only tell you the status quo, the now if you like.

At present time he is not involved with any day to day runnings at West Ham. He was not involved with transfer market dealings of any kind.

That is how it is. Tomorrow I do not know, you can think what you like.

12.) 05 Sep 2026
05 Sep 2026 19:38:03
Robbo, I'm no expert and this may not be true, but one of my mates has a Czech girlfriend. She supports DK's rivals, Slavia Prague. Sparta used to be the main team in Czechia, but since DK has been there, Slavia have now superseded them. He is hated by both sets of fans. Slavia, for obvious reasons. He also acts like the big cheese in his own country.

But he is also disliked by his own fans because of a lack of investment. Considering of late there are only 2 sides in Czechia, they are currently not doing very well in the league, sitting 9th.

Conversely, when the whole Sullivan stuff broke and DK was popular with all of us, I heard somebody say online that he is doing a good job at Sparta.