West Ham are wasting their time taking legal action against Sporting Lisbon
By Amanda Paula
After a poor transfer window, West Ham should have shameful to have failure instead of starting a process against the Portuguese club.
We all know that the midfielder William Carvalho was one of West Ham’s targets. However, what seemed a done deal, was shown to be another failure in this summer. Much to the annoyance of fans of the club.
Without him and other names, we finished the market a little disappointed. I must say this was a huge disaster given the lack of strength in our midfield.
This was made worse after an official statement by Dave Sullivan on West Ham’s website on Friday.
"“It is no secret that we made a club record bid for Sporting Lisbon’s William Carvalho but unfortunately that offer was rejected a couple of weeks ago.“Late last night Sporting Lisbon made contact to accept the original offer, but unfortunately it was just too late in the day, and we simply did not have enough time to put the player through a medical."
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A Twist In The Tale
Nevertheless, this declaration made by the Hammers owners did not sound too good in Lisbon. One day after, Sporting Lisbon’s sports director immediately reported the statement on his Facebook post.
"David Sullivan lies. At Sporting, as has already been said by our president, no proposal has been made for the player William Carvalho.“The football industry is not the set of an adult film in which all obscenities are allowed.So the boss of a club demands a lot more than this intellectual pornography.“Mr David Sullivan has a duty to prove what he says. That is why Sporting challenges him to publicly show the proposals he claims to have made as well as the evidence that Sporting received them."
To reinforce a ridiculous situation David Sullivan’s son, posted a message affirming the stance against Sporting.
I am not defending the Portuguese side, but what what Dave Sullivan has done in our club is simply ridiculous. With two consecutive seasons with some of the worst transfers and bad results, he has just put his foot in it.
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In addition, why he decided to start a fight against another club? This is insane, we do not need this, what we need is to win the next matches and push to not be relegated. The focus should be on the squad we have, but right now it’s all over the place. The board are not helping a bad season turn around at all.