bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
....the Hammers appear to be in a strong strategic position to make real progress in the next 5 years, I wouldn't underestimate what an attractive proposition they are.
Disagree mate, not unless they get bought out by some sheikh they aren't, right now the only way they are attracting decent level players is by VASTLY overpaying for them in salaries, from memory they are right at the max for what they can pay as well atm so need to ship mpeople out to create some room to sign others, Payet has been really good for 12-13 games for them fair enough, but to get him they had to pay him 120k+ per week for a player with a terrible injury record and who was hardly regarded as a amazing player.
Whilst it is true that players won't be looking at exactly how many trophies each club has won in its history to say that they won't look at the amount of years over the past 50 that west ham have spent in the lower divisions is wrong, they will do so, obviously if they get some mega rich owner then that could change = ala City, but as it stands right now they are not a particularly attractive proposition for a player to go really, never seen any club win trophies because it has a new stadium either, if anything a new stadium will be largely a negative to performances initially due to the lack of the old ground type atmospheres