So, West Ham have been bought by Periluigi Collina's dad. And it turns out he's an Icelandic bloke who goes by the name of Magnusson. Anyway, this has been, for obvious reason, a situation I have followed closely... voici mon observations:
- This is the lesser of two evils. In fact the Magnusson consortium doesn't seem that evil at all. The bloke has been the head of the Icelandic FA, and clearly knows his football. His financier, Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, has an ever so slightly 80s track record, but name me someone who got rich in the 80s who hasn't.
- The Joorabchian consortium was fucked from the moment Caborn and the Olympic comittee all but ruled out a move to the Olympic stadium after 2012. Joorabchian's Israeli financier Eli Papouchado is first and foremost a property developer, and had his eyes on the Upton Park real estate.
- Don't expect Yossi Benayoun to stick around for too long. His agent, or should I say superagent Pinhas Zahavi, was due to be the Joorabchian dealbroker, having arranged Chelsea's sale to Roman Abramovic, and been heavily involved in Joorabchian's skulduggery at Corinthians (he is due half of any fee they receive for Carlos Alberto, the ex-Porto midfielder due to move to Europe soon). Yossi was recently tied down to a contract until 2011 by West Ham...they knew what they were doing, I believe his tenure at West Ham was conditional on the deal. At least now we'll get some decent dough. This is a real shame, Benayoun is a brilliant player.
-Jesus I feel sorry for Mascherano and Tevez, the poor guys are pawns in this whole thing. Surely they won't be staying for long now that father-figure Joorabchian is out of the equation. This said, I reckon Tevez will stay, and Mascherano will go in January.
So. Done deal. I was getting a little bored to be honest. I'm off to make a fortune selling biscuits...
3 comments:
Is that really the guy's proper head? He looks like something out of the coneheads?
I would love to be part of the flash-balling. I was thinking of flash-booking, where we could gather a crowd of people to simulatenously throw Cashley Cole's autobiography at him during a game. Would get him further up the bestsellers list anyway.
Keep up the blogging - although this is my first comment, I'm a regular reader. Have to support the FAKY alumni.
On on on, Rik
i hope yossi doesn't leave, although i don't understand pardew playing him on the wing when he seems obsessed with width. when yossi's played in behind the strikers he's been amazing at times and always runs his heart out. he'd be a real loss. on the other hand, paintsil, zahavi's other client, is welcome to leave.
with the mascherano/tevez thing i had it the other way round; tevez to leave in january and mascherano to stick it out. thinking about it though i don't think either have done enough to warrant being bought by any "bigger clubs," and may well stay on til summer and hope for more chances to show their talents. both have shown flashes of their quality, but have definitely struggled with the english game, which hasn't been helped by pardew's (rightly or wrongly) reluctance to pick them, as well as tevez's injuries.
this season was always going to be tougher than last season. lets just hope pardew can add a bit more quality over the next windows and keep the team spirit. if he can do that then i see no reason why we can't finish top 10 next season and then onto europe the season after.
An 80s track record-is he an Alison Moyet fan aswell? That Joorabchian has such a fit bird for such an ugly bastard-something fishy going on. Needless to say, me and him don't see eye to eye. The argies are both leaving. Tevez should go go Barcelona, they like south american kids who fail amazingly. He'd be a good short-term replacement for Messi. He could be their answer to Real's Rodrigo Fabri-bought for £8 million, never played a first team game.
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