Were they to get relegated, they would be stuck with some players on huge contracts and they could find themselves in a very large stadium with far fewer fans and a very poor atmosphere. I think they could slide very quickly if they went down this year.
The problem there is that they aren't paying for their very large stadium. It's costing them peanuts at the moment and if they get relegated it's pretty much paying them!
Exactly. They are a zero overhead club. This means they will pay less in rent than, say, the Massives pay in match day overheads.They will get parachute payments. They will have the biggest corporate hospitality revenue in the division, and probably benefit from naming rights, as I suspect the deal will have been agreed by now, and have little or nothing in the way of "relegation reduction" for their 20%.
They will easily buy their way back up.
"Take your clients to the London Stadium and see at first hand our supporters fighting with stewards, blood curdling violence from the safety of your own box!"
Those photos are of the stadium during the Olympics so doesn't apply to those on the scaffolding seats.
Awful move for them I said before they moved that it would be the death of the club but they lapped it up. The comment about the East Stand being like the yellow wall did make me laugh!
The atmosphere in that stadium is the worst atmosphere I have ever experienced.
It was meant to be one of their biggest games of the season and was like a library.
The Chelsea fans singing "You're not West Ham anymore" would have really hurt them.
perhaps because it was such a crap game. watched most of it on tv last night & couldn't believe the amount of sideways & backwards passing going on - worse than us . Playing Carroll up front they would have been better served just lumping it up to him & getting men around him to pick up the knock downs.
It was a bit of a dull game but Chelsea were class. It was a controlled, tactical victory.
Their fans were pretty good too. West Ham fans on the other hand.
Been to that stadium twice this season and not heard one song. Apart from their blowing bubbles song which is so washed out too. The stadium just doesn't work. The pitch is so far away too.
18 pts from 14 home games, GD -9 (compare with Hull, 16 from 13, or Swansea, 17 from 14); 15 pts from 13 away games, GD -1 (compare with Spurs, 18 from 13, or Everton, 16 from 14).
There's a reasonable case for arguing that, so far, they don't like playing there, and it's damaging their league position.
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Awful move for them I said before they moved that it would be the death of the club but they lapped it up. The comment about the East Stand being like the yellow wall did make me laugh!
The atmosphere in that stadium is the worst atmosphere I have ever experienced.
It was meant to be one of their biggest games of the season and was like a library.
The Chelsea fans singing "You're not West Ham anymore" would have really hurt them.
perhaps because it was such a crap game. watched most of it on tv last night & couldn't believe the amount of sideways & backwards passing going on - worse than us . Playing Carroll up front they would have been better served just lumping it up to him & getting men around him to pick up the knock downs.
Their fans were pretty good too. West Ham fans on the other hand.
Been to that stadium twice this season and not heard one song. Apart from their blowing bubbles song which is so washed out too. The stadium just doesn't work. The pitch is so far away too.
15 pts from 13 away games, GD -1 (compare with Spurs, 18 from 13, or Everton, 16 from 14).
There's a reasonable case for arguing that, so far, they don't like playing there, and it's damaging their league position.
Ewe, did I just write Brady and gushing in the same sentence? Doctor!!!!