David Sullivan can be livid with Tim Steidten. (Photograph by James Likelihood/Getty Photographs)
West Ham technical director, Tim Steidten, actually went to city within the switch market this summer time for the East London outfit, and given how poorly the membership have began the 2024/25 marketing campaign, it will be no shock to grasp that chairman David Sullivan can be livid with the German’s choice making.
Steidten had apparently warned the Hammers hierarchy in opposition to signing Julen Lopetegui as first-team coach, and due to this fact might level to that call being one other – made by the membership – which hasn’t helped alleviate the present established order.
David Sullivan would have good purpose to be mad at Tim Steidten
Nevertheless the German tried to justify himself, nevertheless, pundit Chris Sutton is only one to voice his considerations as to what Steidten has truly performed by way of bringing Lopetegui in, within the first place, and evidently harming the membership within the instant future.
Based on Sami Mokbel of the Each day Mail (subscription required), Sullivan is prone to be fuming.
‘Given Fullkrug is 31, discovering any type of worth in that deal – sporting or monetary – doesn’t essentially strike you sq. within the face,’ he wrote.
‘Summerville, signed from Leeds for an preliminary £25m, has made one Premier League begin to date.
‘The choice to let James Ward-Prowse, a seasoned Premier League campaigner, be a part of Nottingham Forest is one other questionable switch choice.
‘‘Practically £200m spent? I’m unsure I’d be too joyful if I used to be Sullivan.’
It’s tough to argue with that line of considering and if outcomes don’t enhance, it’s blindingly apparent that fingers can be pointed.
Will they be at a Spanish coach that seems to be fully on the improper wavelength to his gamers – suppose Erik ten Hag at Man United too, who the Hammers play on Sunday – or directed at a technical director that clearly had the membership’s finest intentions at coronary heart.
Earlier than signing these gamers, West Ham followers gave the impression to be cock-a-hoop that their membership was lastly mixing it with the massive boys throughout a switch window, nevertheless, there’s been nothing to crow about to date.
