Zola Sacked

[Anny Road]

Just reported

[Ginny]

Unlucky. I like Zola as well. Seems like a nice guy.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Can't say i'm shocked.

[Lopez Ufarte]

Can't say I'm suprised. Genuine football man though and nice guy.

[RedBrian84]

I fucking hate Gold and Sullivan.

 

The way they treated a fantastic servant to this sport was just shocking. Those pair of know-nothing cunts (seems we're not the only ones owned by a pair of massive twats) need to boil their heads.

 

Gutted for Zola like, but he's better off away from them. And I hope West Ham go down next season.

[coachpotato]

Nice guys tend to not win much, unfortunately.

 

One of the best players to come into the PL though, and will always be respected for that.

[zigackly]

He had to go, they have been totally shit.

[John101]

Can we add this to the Rafa vs Zola thread?

[Magic Sponge]

Didn't the two faced cunts say only last week that because they stayed up, Zola would be given another crack of the whip next season?

[Crazyhorse7778]

I really like Zola but he doesn't seem to be the best manager around so I can't say this is a shock

 

Wouldn't be surprised if they tried to replaced him with Avram Grant.

[Guest TK-421]

Can we add this to the Rafa vs Zola thread?

 

Benitez win!

[Guest TK-421]

(Gor)gone Zola.

[John101]

I'd have gone with 'You're gone Zola' headlines myself. 24 hours and we will know.

[silverlining]

Poisoned chalice of a job that one.

 

West Ham have the most deluded twat fans ever, who demand "beautiful football", but have a horrible habit of turning on their players, regardless of how good they are.

 

Plus Sullivan is a massive bellend.

 

Plus the squad is fucking shit and they only have one really top player in Scott Parker.

 

Would Hughes be daft/ desperate enough to take that job?

[Original202]

Shame for him, but West Ham shouldn't have been in that position in the first place. I know they've had a lot of injury problems (Who hasn't?) but they've got some very good players:

 

Green, Upson, Parker, Noble, Cole, Collison, Behrami etc

 

Though they also have some utter shite in that squad.

[birkenhead]

Sack the manager then you can sell the players without fuss, sound familiar?

[gkmacca]

I fucking hate Gold and Sullivan.

 

The way they treated a fantastic servant to this sport was just shocking. Those pair of know-nothing cunts (seems we're not the only ones owned by a pair of massive twats) need to boil their heads.

 

Gutted for Zola like, but he's better off away from them. And I hope West Ham go down next season.

 

Yes, I must admit I haven't taken enough notice of his matches to know if he deserved this, but Zola's a decent man and I fear for anyone working under those two bastards. They run straight to the press and the fan sites whenever anything goes wrong - talk about solidarity! Hasn't Bilic been lined up for quite some time for the job?

[Brownie]

It was always going to happen but it's a shame because he seems like a great fella and I reckon he'll end up being a very good manager.

[kacangpool]

i like zola. even when people were calling him arnim.

[Trumo]

Just a capple of salt-of-the-erf East End smut-peddlin' barra boys not wantin' anyfing to do with any Chewsea legends. Who's up for a bitta pie an' mash, jellied eews followed by a good ol' knees-up raand the old Joanna? Lavly jabbly!

[lostinspace1970]

Real football people like Zola are being driven out of football by cunts like Gold and Sullivan. Makes me puke

[Guest TesticleOReilly]

Real football people? You do know West Ham finished in 17th place? Like them or loathe them, the porn barons made Birmingham a financially stable well-run business. They've just bought a club over a £100M in debt and have to do the same there, and they won't do that with 17th place finishes every year.

 

Fabulous player, gash manager.

[lostinspace1970]

Real football people? You do know West Ham finished in 17th place? Like them or loathe them, the porn barons made Birmingham a financially stable well-run business. They've just bought a club over a £100M in debt and have to do the same there, and they won't do that with 17th place finishes every year.

 

Fabulous player, gash manager.

 

Not sure about that, mate

 

Yeung steps up war with Gold and Sullivan as Birmingham announce losses of £20m

 

 

Carson Yeung’s war with David Sullivan and David Gold erupted last night as Birmingham announced record £20million losses.

 

Hong Kong tycoon Yeung is suing his City predecessors following a bitter £80m takeover at St Andrews last October.

 

Furious Yeung ordered a financial probe after inheriting liabilities for up to £11m and Karren Brady’s controversial severance package.

 

And Premier League City’s accounts for 2008/2009, exclusively seen by Mirrorsport, now show a whopping £19.7m loss.

 

It is a huge embarrassment to Sullivan and Gold, in charge at top-flight rivals West Ham.

 

And a shocked Sullivan last night admitted: “I can’t see where this loss has come from.”

 

He and Gold took over at Upton Park in January and were very critical of the financial mess at the club after revealing debts of £110m.

 

They claimed they were the ideal men to save the Hammers after turning City into a Premier League club from the brink of bankruptcy in 1993.

 

But Yeung’s figures, from when the Blues were in the Championship, show Birmingham was arguably insolvent last term as the value of the assets did not equal the losses.

 

Now Yeung is legally challenging the old regime about taking lucrative bonuses out of the club after May 2009 when the financial year ended.

 

Yeung, who bought an initial 29.9 per cent of City for £15m in 2007, also believes he overpaid for the rest by paying £1 a share last year.

 

And his advisors feel a price of just 30p a share would have been more appropriate given what they inherited.

 

But Sullivan added: “We had a policy of retaining the squad to get back up which we thought was the correct policy and was vindicated because the club got promotion at the first opportunity automatically.

 

“Last summer we knew the club had a financial problem as we publicly stated we loaned it £5m to pay the deposits on two new players because there was no money to do that.

 

“Some of the losses are the way accounting practices write players off over the period of their contracts although the money is paid over an early period.

 

“But the first six months of 2008-09 we lost £4m and I can’t see how the club has lost £16m in the second half of the year.

 

“I am sure the club will make £10-15m in the Premier League this year though.”

 

Yeung is so angry he even refused to attend City’s recent game at West Ham and returned some blue and white gold and silver jewellery from Sullivan intended as a peace offering.

 

There has been deep ill-feeling between the camps since Yeung’s first aborted takeover bid in 2007.

 

When Yeung finally got the club he ordered City’s vice-president Peter Pannu, a former Hong Kong cop and barrister, to investigate.

 

Sullivan and Gold have admitted taking advance management fees worth £420,000 out before their departure.

 

Sullivan offered £500,000 to settle the dispute but Yeung rejected the proposal and has sued.

[Guest TesticleOReilly]

There is a case to be answered, LiS, but £20 is really a drop in the ocean. Even relegation results in a vast wedge of cash being paid out for the next 2/3 years. Secondly, a lot of that money will have disappeared as the control was handed over, Brady's payment, Sullivan and Gold's hand outs, morally and ethically iffy, maybe, but had the club not been sold and had they remained in charge then those payments would not have gone out of the club, and the losses would not have been so large.

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