For all concerned, West Ham United enter the most crucial couple of months in the club’s recent history as the Premier League season winds up to its nail biting conclusion. West Ham, still sitting perilously close to the relegation trapdoor, are fighting for their future.
With the club’s finances and boardroom in such a shocking state there is genuine worry amongst the fan base that relegation would be just the beginning of a massive slide downwards into the lower echelons of English football. Unthinkable.
West Ham are in a battle for their future
Which is why focus is the key: Players talk endlessly of positivity, togetherness, team camaraderie – all of which is vital – but having the manager 100% focussed on keeping his side in the top tier is an absolute necessity.
So the reports concerning a massive off-pitch battle between Hammers manager Nuno Espírito Santo and his former boss, Nottingham Forest’s Evangelos Marinakis are worrying – to say the least.
The West Ham manager is in a potentially distracting fight with his previous employer over the compensation due when he was fired, before joining West Ham earlier this season.
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Footballinsider247.com brings the detail of the ‘vicious’ disagreement:
“There’ll be serious damages and claims and counterclaims….it’s vicious. I’m assured of that.
I know one of the lawyers involved, but of course he can’t tell me the actual details, but he just said wow, it’s a heavyweight slugging fest. So as I say, behind that subtext of the agents involved as well, yes, it’s going to be a battle at the end.”
Marinakis and Nuno – heavyweight slugfest dispute
Hopefully, however, there’s the possibility that Espírito Santo will find a way for his representatives to keep the whole sorry dispute away from court and allow him to focus on the job in hand- keeping the Hammers in the top flight:
“But as usual with these things, it gets resolved out of court before it goes too much further and bang, somebody pays and somebody accepts it. But yes, it won’t be pleasant and Nuno is not going to be bullied, I’m sure of that.”
Good. Stay focussed please, Nuno, and let the lawyers do their job – for which no doubt they’ll be hugely well rewarded whatever the outcome.
Shoulda been a lawyer. Drat. And doubt drat.