West Ham United co-chairman David Sullivan comments on Tottenham Hotspur’s decision to build a new stadium.
While defending West Ham’s decision to leave the Boleyn Ground at the end of the 2015-16 season for the London Stadium, Sullivan pointed out something about Spurs’ new stadium.
Tottenham are rebuilding White Hart Lane and are playing at the Wembley Stadium in London for the 2017-18 campaign.
“I think Daniel Levy has done a fantastic job at Tottenham,” Sullivan told The Guardian. “But his cheapest season ticket price will be three times ours. There might be a tiny little corner with 200 kids he calls the family stand.
“Maybe we should have gone a different route and borrowed it all. We would have bankrupted the club.”
West Ham have lofty ambitions for the future, as do Tottenham, but the Hammers are struggling in the Premier League at the moment.
David Moyes’s side are in danger of getting relegated to the Championship at the end of the season.
The Hammers will return to action on Saturday afternoon when they take on London rivals Chelsea at the London Stadium in the Premier League.
The Blues are a much better team than West Ham and are strong favourites to win the game.
Ahead of the match, West Ham manager Moyes has laid down two conditions that his players have to meet in order to play for his team.
“One of the main messages has been — and will be — that if they are not going to put in the effort, then I won’t play them,” Moyes wrote in The London Evening Standard.
“I don’t care if a player is a supporters’ or a club favourite: if they don’t do the running expected of them, if they don’t put the work in, then I won’t select them.
“If I also see, during a match, that they are fading, then I will have no hesitation in taking them off.
“In addition, I want only to pick players who are 100 per cent fit. When they come into the team, I want them to be able to make a difference. This is the way it has to be.”
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