West Ham Fan Advisory Group Issues Vote Of No Confidence In Club Board

West Ham’s charismatic instrumentality advisory board, which represents much than 25,000 supporters, has issued a ballot of nary assurance successful nan club’s board.

A missive from nan FAB, signed by 11 supporters’ groups, was sent to nan shareholders David Sullivan, Vanessa Gold, Daniel Kretinsky and Tripp Smith past week and made nationalist connected Wednesday. It cites “an ageing an uncompetitive squad” arsenic 1 illustration of “sustained nonaccomplishment connected behalf of nan executive management” since nan nine won nan Conference League and sold Declan Rice to Arsenal for £105m 2 years ago.

One group which is simply a signatory to nan letter, Hammers United, is calling for a boycott of adjacent month’s location crippled against Brentford. The FAB is described by West Ham arsenic nan club’s “primary system for general consultation and engagement”.

Its missive said: “You told america that our move to nan London Stadium would return america to nan adjacent level. The reality is, our commercialized revenues are now dwarfed by our expected rivals. Supporters find themselves casting envious glances astatine nan likes of Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford and Crystal Palace each of whom outperform West Ham United some connected and disconnected nan pitch.

“We request master full-time executives pinch some shot and commercialized expertise, and nary further committee interference, nary much dependence connected favoured agents, successful short, a move to a competitory master leadership. The precocious quoted explanation ‘analogue nine successful a integer world’ is very apt and has to change.”

West Ham started nan play pinch 2 dense defeats, conceding 8 goals against promoted Sunderland and Chelsea, and were knocked retired of nan Carabao Cup by Wolves. Although Graham Potter’s broadside hit Nottingham Forest 3-0 connected Sunday to prime up their first points, Hammers United wants fans to protestation against nan club’s ownership astatine nan location crippled against Crystal Palace connected 20 September earlier engaging successful nan boycott.

“After our 3-0 triumph astatine Nottingham Forest, Brady and Sullivan will beryllium expecting our fans to locomotion done nan turnstiles arsenic if nan past 15 years ne'er happened,” it said successful a statement. “This is why it’s much important than ever for nan fans to fto them cognize that we will ne'er forgive, and nor will we forget, each of nan harm they person done to our club. Stand together. Boycott Brentford.”

Hammers United person urged Sullivan and Brady to resign and said “our nine is going to die” if they they do not waste up. “It is successful superior diminution and dying a slow decease arsenic we speak, pinch thousands of long-term, time-served fans stepping away, different relegation conflict beckoning, and different early cup exit,” said its chair, Paul Colborne. “We cannot let this to hap connected our watch.”

West Ham person been contacted for comment.