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我愛衛報   http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1336603,00.html


West Ham have reasons to be grateful to Blues

Jon Brodkin
Wednesday October 27, 2004
The Guardian

West Ham will hardly be handing out thank-you notes to Chelsea before their
Carling Cup tie at Stamford Bridge tonight, but the club owe their opponents
gratitude of sorts. It may not have felt like a favour when Chelsea took Joe
Cole and Glen Johnson off them two summers ago but the ￡12.6m generated by
those sales helped West Ham through the financial crisis of relegation.


Throw in the departure of Frank Lampard for Stamford Bridge in July 2001 and
Chelsea have poured ￡23.6m into the Upton Park coffers over recent years. That
is a sign of the gap which has opened between the clubs, though West Ham look
well placed to challenge for a return to the top flight, sitting fourth in the
Championship.


Cole and Johnson could well feature tonight, with Lampard poised to resume his
midfield partnership with Claude Makelele, unwell at the weekend. If the
purchases West Ham made on the back of Lampard's sale did not all prove value
for money - Don Hutchison came for ￡5m and Tomas Repka for ￡5.5m - the funds
from Cole and Johnson went a long way to making the club's problems manageable
and allowing them to bring in signings.


"We suffered a relegation and suffered the cost of that in terms of our better
players having to leave, as all the clubs have done that have fallen out of the
Premiership," said Alan Pardew, who took over as manager after Cole and Johnson
left.


"Chelsea have gone to a new level with the money of the Champions League and
[their owner Roman] Abramovich. It's a big gulf but we have to put that to the
back of our minds and just look at the 11 jerseys against us. We just have to
focus on what we're about. It's a London derby and we have to approach it in
that manner and be committed and try to win.


"All clubs that get relegated from the Premier League are in trouble. If you
ask the bottom 10 clubs in the Premier League what they worry about, it's the
financial cost of relegation. It's just so difficult to manage. But I don't
want to harp on about that. I'm preparing my team for Chelsea and that's what I
want to do. We're looking forward to the game."


Pardew was full of praise for the Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho but expressed
concern that the big jobs are going to foreign coaches. He said talented
English managers outside the top flight had "less and less chance" of being
employed by Premiership clubs. "Maybe the only way in is to get promoted out of
the Championship and that is a worry," he said.






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