Earlier today [Claret and Hugh](https://www.claretandhugh.info/west-hams-elephant-in-the-room-needs-addressing-fast/) discussed the options open to West Ham United’s board to remedy the short term £100 million – plus sized hole in their finances – whether a rights issue or the sale of assets including players. Several readers have made their own views known on this, Martin’s comments below being typical:
Guest post by **Martin Simpson**
_“Whether Rights Issue, player or other asset sales, these only bridge the cash gap they do not solve the structural issue of how we are run. In particular this refers to transfers where we have a record of buying players with poor resale values in comparison to their purchase price. This can be down to the age of the player, over paying for average players (including too high wages, making it difficult to shift the player on) and simply buying players not good enough/suited to the EPL._
_The managers play their part in this but the one person consistently involved in transfers is Sullivan._
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_If the club appoint a good quality & proven head of recruitment who is given clear direction on the profile of player we want, well defined budgets on transfer fees and wages we could be out of this mess in a relatively short period._
_Through necessity and, to be fair, through Potter & MacCauley we have started the process with younger cheaper players. We just need Sullivan to keep his fingers out of the business and let professionals get on with their job._
_With our revenue streams and stadium we should still be able to out bid the Brighton’s, Brentford’s of this world and attract the better younger players.’_
Fans will remain sceptical about the recent news from inside the club that a new technical director appointment is imminent: As Martin states clearly, the problem is the interfering Chairman who can’t stick to the boardroom and needs to learn to oversee the technical director rather than try and ‘run’ transfers.