Hello fight fans.
There was a piece lurking in the shadows yesterday from our friends at Knickers Up Mrs Brady here in relation to the Levy & Co’s ‘authorised agents’ procurement of phone records.
The gall of these people. They are actually trying to put this on a par with journalists hacking mobile phones. And am I being over sensitive, but why is the fact that Dionne Knight has a 14 year old daughter living at home with her suddenly being nudged into the equation?
I knew about her daughter when I wrote my piece the other week . I didn’t include her as I didn’t see it as relevant to the facts. The daughter is from a previous relationship and if anything I didn’t like the possible idea of a cheap shot being taken at Knight for being an unmarried mother living in sin with another man. But now the child is wheeled in as if in some bizarre manner a minor was at peril whilst men in balaclavas were shinning up drain pipes, going through knicker draws and generally acting like very bad Milk Tray men.
Levy & Co employed these ‘authorised agents’ not to obtain information that would assist in selling newspapers. Not to dig up dirt on people’s private lives. They did so to confirm and as it transpired, quite rightly, that a £500M deal government deal was not conducted in a wholly open and honest manner.
The payments to Knight from West Ham were concealed from her main employers. The fact that #facelikeakickedinfridge and other senior figures at Upton Park knew Knight worked for the OPLC is neither here nor there. What is pivotal is that the bloody OPLC didn’t know she was working for West Ham!
The OPLC had by their own account ‘taken measures’ to limit what information Knight had access to on a day to day basis as she had declared she was cohabiting with Ian Tompkins, West Ham’s Bid Director. So if she had declared part, why not all?
I’m not accusing her of being corrupt. How could I possibly know? But she certainly wasn’t transparent and the outcome of a deal such as this was too important to indulge parlour games like this.
What makes matters worse is that the West Ham bid religiously adhered to the requirements of the OPLC every step of the way. Without deviation. Despite that the fact that the sanity of giving the Porn Barons the stadium was growing more questionable by the day.
Their entire business was chained with debts. And their future as a football club looked suicidal as a business model and very swiftly after they won the bid 14-nil it was confirmed as such.
Any decent players from their stock will be sold at less than their full market potential as they bail from the sinking Championship wreck. Their income streams devastated.
The government need to investigate the issue of public interest and transparency here and not be distracted by the desperate death throes of dildo salesmen.
BIOYC!
Off topic I know, but one other thought on modric situation.
Why don’t we try a cheeky little swap deal with inter for schneijder. Handily valued at £35m by inter. Nice fit I would say.
Wages could be a problem, but hopefully Vdv would put in a good word.
According to a guy speaking about Wes on Talksport, his wages are 200k per week!
Modric quoted in The Times this morning. Reckons that Levy was ‘arrogant’ and wouldn’t listen to him. Also, Modric claims to be unimpressed by our transfer policy (at last something we can agree with). Did Danny Boy handle this badly? Modric is still a twat.
What part of ‘I know I signed a 6 year contract last year and Chelsea have offered two stale slices of bread and half a kit-kat but I had such a nice time on Roman’s yacht…’ did Levy need to listen to?
I would have done the whole meeting with headphones on, let him talk then taken them off and said “Are you finished rat-boy… Good, then get your f***ing boots and get over to the training ground, pronto”.
Who the f**k is he to comment on anything we do? Is he our Director of Football? Has he any idea of what real life is? He spends 2 minutes hanging around with Roman and suddenly we’re all beneath him? F**k him.
I always love the attempted use of attempted semi-legalese writing when they write those blog entries… So badly done I think it’s actually the 14-yr old that’s written it.
At least they provide a little entertainment among all the nonsense being bandied through the press about ‘poor’ ickle hard-done by Luca. I really do wonder how much money Roman has wasted tapping up Fleet St that could have just been put in an honest first transfer offer.
Levy deserves maximum support at this difficult time.
The Russian Mafia are clearly engaged in dirty tricks against the club.
The East London Indebted can’t afford to punch above the belt while a lower blow is possible.
He has to herd all the relevant politicians into new-stadium-building formation.
He has to keep on top of the ongoing transfer
junglemarket developments.And he has a treacherous head coach working against him as well.
Tin hats, sandbags, ack ack, air raid sirens….
Interesting to see the stats in the Sun today, apparently we score more, concede less and win more when Modric ISN’T in the team, probably due to all the ffing about he does in the middle of the park with no end product.
Neat player yes but lets sell and move on, all this talk of some silly fans asking for Sturridge and Essien in exchange then bid for Parker are mad, its not volume of signings we need its quality we can only field 11 men on the field at one time.
Simple Modric out Marin in, with the left over cash put it towards the money we already have for the one position we lack……..STRIKER
The problem is that £22m don’t get you an awful lot when he cost £16m in the first place. This is the game Roman is playing. Destabilise the player, drop some cash in the media to bring extra pressure then sit back and wait for him to put in a transfer request. I think this is his Russian version of the UEFA financial prudence rules.
This time the PL must get involved, they sat back and watched Utd stick one up us a while back and now Chelsea are doing the same. It’s like a policeman watching a robbery and waiting form the injured party to cry “Stop thief” We could set a precedent here and I’d be really pissed off if we don’t!
Unfortunately, the Policeman involved is Private Godfrey from Dad’s Army.
Surely you mean the Alex Ferguson method, only it’s the classless, crass version
Levy has made sure that if he goes to Chels it will be for top dollars.
He holds all the cards. If Modric refuses to play he defaults on his contract and won’t get paid. If DL sticks him in the stands it is almost like him being injured the difference being there are no medical bills. There is no pressure Chelsea or Modric can put on us other than timing. If he goes and we need a direct replacement (and that is debatable) we’ll need time to orchestrate that.
All in all our position is strong
You’re right but it still doesn’t make the nasty taste go away. In an absurd way, if we could shift PSB then we’d still be saving £20k per week by NOT playing Modders!!! That makes me feel a bit better. The only problem is that it relies on shifting PSB and I think he’ll still be at WHL when it draw my pension.
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