Rumours abound that Nuno Espírito Santo is on his way out of the club after a hastily arranged meeting with the board following yesterday’s relegation to the Championship.
For weeks, the stories have been circulating that the club needs to sell most of its first team players to pay burgeoning debt and fund the shortfall in revenue which will hit now that the Premier League gravy train has departed without West Ham upon it.
Yesterday Jarrod Bowen made his feelings known after the Leeds game, hinting that he wanted to remain at the club which meant everything to him.
Less than 12 hours later and another stalwart has gone public on twitter with his own feelings – and dropped a similarly huge hint that he’s on board to stay with the club:
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It’s the telling last sentence that has been seized upon by observers this afternoon:
“Now its on us to respond the right way, work harder than ever and fight to bring West Ham back where it belongs”
If he stays and succeeds, along with skipper Jarrod Bowen, in dragging West Ham back into the Premier League it’ll be time for a new crowdfunded statue of the pair at the stadium entrance.
Soucek celebrates scoring against Manchester United
Whether Sullivan’s self inflicted financial chaos will demand that the likes of Bowen and ‘Tornado Tom’ are sold to pay off the enormous debts, though, is another matter altogether.
But for Hammers hero Soucek, huge credit for seemingly pledging himself to the cause, despite those 50% relegation clause salary cuts. Sometimes it is nice to see that, even in the most difficult of times, there’s more to football than ‘just’ money.
We’ll all just have to keep our fingers crossed and suspend judgement until the summer window concludes. Whilst David Moyes at Everton has a bag full of cash there’s still every chance he could convince Sullivan to part with Soucek despite the player’s wishes.