West Ham spiral out of control - now Sheffield United PLAYERS plan to sue!
by Dexter on September 26th, 2008
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Poor Gianfranco Zola. The likeable Italian trots into his first management job at West Ham, and as soon as he’s slid into the hotseat, the club begins to crumble. The Tevez scandal has whirled back into view, and this time it is threatening to leave the Hammers up a creek without a paddle.
The latest on the whole Tevez jamboree is that Sheffield United’s players are planning to sue:
At least ten of the players who were relegated with Sheffield United have taken the first step in launching their own multi-million pound legal action against West Ham.
Their Bramall Lane employers are already demanding more than £30million after an independent Football Association tribunal concluded that they should be compensated by West Ham in the wake of the Carlos Tevez scandal.
But now the players who have suffered financially as a result of United’s relegation to the Championship in May 2007 have opened discussions with a leading UK sports lawyer in a bid to make their own claim for compensation. (Daily Mail)
With West Ham facing action not only from Sheffield United but a wave a lawsuits from their players too, you have to wonder just how the club are going to be able to afford it. Alan Curbishley quit over an argument about players being sold, and if the directors felt that the club was in such dire financial shape that players had to be sold, then how do they feel now!?
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Tagged Under: Premier League, Sheffield United FC, tevez, west ham fc, zola
Dave Hall - September 26th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Club crumbling? You on prozac or something, what a drama queen. You think because of all what’s going on is going top make West Ham crumble, don’t think so mate.
Marleeeen depreciation society - September 26th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
SHAME ON YOU!!!! we all know that football players are on the poverty line but let’s face it, this lot weren’t good enough to stay up and so went down because of it. Not because of carlos tevez regardless of what some detached welsh lord thinks (not knows) and everyone who knows about the complexities of football knows it. If ANY of those ten players were premiership quality then they would have been snapped up by PROPER premiership clubs just like the cream of some other relegated clubs. This even happened to west ham last time they were relegated. Defoe, Carrick, Joe Cole, Lampard, etc all got bought. I’d also like to point out that even with most of the same team the season after demotion, Sheffield utd didn’t exactly set the championship alight.
Dave Hall - September 26th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Have you once heard the board mention they are hard up? No you haven’t so stop copying newspaper crap and write something with some reality behind it.
Ady - September 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
What are you lot doing at this rate there will never be any football played it will all be in the court of law. Will Watford sue about the Reading ghost goal WHY NOT its all going up in smoke if the sheffield lot dont pack this all in they will destroy football all together
Phil - September 26th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
The world’s gone mad! If the claim and judgement were not ludicrous enough (West Ham got more points per game WITHOUT Tevez than when he played), this last move defies all logic. The players’ claim only has legs if Sheff Utd get the money. If they do get the cash that ‘Compo’ McCabe reckons they’d have got if the team were good enough to stay up, then THAT’S where the players would have got their bonuses from, not West Ham. You can’t have your cake, eat it, and nick someone else’s! (Although nothing would surprise me now!)
Daniel Palmer - September 26th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
The fact is wet sham cheated ,and when that happens you have to live with the consequences whenever this happens in cup competions the offending club whatever the sport ,football , criket ,rugby are disqualified
Phil - September 26th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Yes Daniel, West Ham broke the rules. And they admitted it. And were punished with a record fine of £5.5million. Liverpool broke the rules in fielding an understrength team against Fulham; Sheff Utd did the same on more than one occassion; Man Utd broke the same third party rule as West Ham by preventing Howard from playing for Everton against them; and guess what, so did Sheff Utd who admitted preventing Kabba from playing for Watford against them, resulting in a rare three points. Whereas Tevez (who statistically West Ham were better off without) was potentially open to third party interference, Kabba was actually subject to third party influence. Glass houses and stones come to mind.
dan - September 27th, 2008 at 12:16 am
theres no rules saying you have to play a full strength side and the rule is when a player is on loan from 1 PL club to another the aformentioned player doesnt play against the parent club.
If sheff u had won more games they wouldnt hav gon down
Phil - September 27th, 2008 at 8:56 am
If that’s the case re players on loan then the rule has been changed since. The only reason the prem (said they) didn’t take action against Sheff U was that the agreement was not found in writing. Teams are obliged to play full strength teams, or at least not to field deliberately weakened teams - the problem is that it is difficult to define as it is often down to opinion.