Moron of the Year?

West Ham Chairman David Sullivan came out yesterday and gave his opinion on Yakubu’s market price. Sullivan said:

“Everything has a price. You want to get Yakubu for £1-2 million and they are quoting £8 million and that is far too much.

“They have to be more realistic. If they said £1-2m we might go back. We bid more at the start of the summer because we had more flexibility but, at this moment in time, having spent some of our money on other players we want him for £1-2m.”

With gutter rag The S*n claiming that West Ham want £20million from Liverpool for Carlton Cole, are we to assume that Sullivan thinks that Yakubu is only a tenth of a player that Carlton Cole is? Yakubu has scored 19 goals in 49 league games for us, as for Carlton Cole he has scored eight more than the Yak, 27 goals – in a whopping 78 games. David Sullivan, early entrant for Moron of the Year?

“The whole game was immaterial after this. I’m devastated for Kieron.”

Presumably Curbs is frustrated in equal part with the fact Dyer earns about £80,000 a week and that he cost his club £7 million . But maybe the Hammers could have seen this coming, as the dual debut injuries to last seasons new signings Upson and Neill show, these things come in pairs for West Ham. Already dealt the cruel blow by the injury to new (and equally expensive) signing Julien Flaubert, West Ham will have to deal without Dyer too. Alan Curbishley must wonder what he has got himself into, look to the sky and cursing the Gods for the Dyer injury, or splashing the cash for the umpteenth time are his only two options . Injury prone West Ham signing injury prone Kieron Dyer, that’s a marriage made in hell, and set for a long session on the treatment table. Curbishley can at least take solace that none of his signings have gone the way of the pugnacious and unstable loon, Marco Boogers, who was sent off on his debut for West Ham, and subsequently tumbled into obscurity.