West Ham are awaiting clarification over the future of Karren Brady after the vice-chair met with supporters campaigning for change.
Fed-up West Ham fans have been rallying to get answers and action from the club’s owners.
Supporters have mobilised again to protest against West Ham’s board after becoming completely disillusioned with how the club is run.
There was a major development when the owners agreed to meet with the West Ham Fan Advisory Board, which represents the club’s multitude of fan groups.
Karren Brady meets with West Ham fan board
West Ham United Independent Supporters Committee announced a board director had agreed to meet with them on Thursday, September 11th, and they vowed to air their views in a ‘frank and professional manner’.
WHUISC has declined opportunities to ‘go live’ and air their grievances with the national press.
Instead the committee stated they wanted constructive talks with the board and confirmation to fans what plans they will put in place to achieve ‘realistic ambitions far removed from relegation threat’.
The West Ham fan group also insisted they did not want to get into a ‘public war of words’, feeling it will only serve to inflame a situation that should be resolved in calm and orderly fashion.
Karren Brady in the director's box at West Ham's London Stadium
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The meeting came almost two weeks after the West Ham United Fan Advisory Board wrote to the shareholding board directors David Sullivan, Daniel Kretinsky, Albert Tripp Smith and Vanessa Gold, to issue a “vote of no confidence” in their management of the Hammers.
A long list of grievances and issues were detailed in the letter and, notably, it called for the appointment of top quality professionals to run West Ham on a daily basis to finally fulfil the unrealised potential that those same executives have claimed our club has.
The person responsible for the day-to-day running of West Ham is Karren Brady.
WHUISC has now confirmed it was Baroness Brady who met with them on Thursday night.
West Ham await clarification over Brady resignation
Now West Ham await clarification over Brady’s potential resignation after her meeting with the fan group.
After the disastrous start to the new season at Sunderland, vice-chair Brady insisted West Ham’s owners were not going anywhere.
Majority owner Sullivan and Brady have been at the centre of protest plans launched by fan group Hammers United, using their initials under the slogan ‘No more BS’.
After confirming it was Brady who met with the Fan Advisory Board, West Ham United Independent Supporters Committee delivered a brief but potentially hugely significant update.
West Ham vice-chair Karren Brady has been at the club for 15 years in 2025
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Full minutes from the meeting should be published next week once agreed.
But WHUISC say the meeting proves West Ham’s owners are taking things seriously.
And it was also suggested Brady could be considering her future when one fan asked whether she will be resigning.
“Vice chair of West Ham United attended tonight’s FAB meeting with the club,” WHUISC said overnight.
When asked whether Brady said she will step down, WHUISC said: “We await clarification.”
The group then added: “(It) proves that the club are treating this as serious.”
West Ham fan group wants ‘top quality professionals’ to run club
Earlier this summer Hammers News lifted the lid on Brady’s increasing influence at West Ham amid speculation she could leave.
It is fair to say Baroness Brady has never been the most popular figure among West Ham fans.
From infamously referring to supporters as “customers” to broken promises over the big move from Upton Park to the London Stadium – which she declared was the ‘most successful stadium migration ever’.
Previously Brady has been able to point to the job she has done turning around West Ham’s financial situation since arriving in 2010.
But with the Hammers warning of £100m plus losses in the next accounts in December and pleading poverty in the summer’s transfer market due to PSR while the rest of the Premier League set a new record for spending, Brady’s position has been significantly weakened.