West Ham ‘likely agree new compensation package’ after exit bombshell
West Ham likely agreed some sort of compensation package with Tim Steidten ahead of his exit, Dan Plumley has said.
The German mutually agreed to leave the London Stadium on 4 February (Florian Plettenberg), after fallouts with David Moyes and Julen Lopetegui during his time in the capital.
With Graham Potter pushing to appoint Kyle Macaulay from Chelsea, Steidten’s time was over.
Plumley, a football finance expert, admits that any payment would have been small, but clauses are usually included in contracts of staff and players.
“You would imagine so,” he exclusively told West Ham Zone.
“We’re not always fully aware of the details, are we?
“Again though, the way the industry has operated for a number of years now, there are compensation fees in not just player contracts but for other members of staff as well.
Tim Steidten rightly leaves West Ham United
“There will have been terms and negotiations around that, there may have been some sort of payout there.
“I don’t think it will be huge amounts of money in terms of West Ham as an organisation, but you would expect that.”
This was a match made in hell, and it never truly worked.
David Sullivan even started to take more control of transfers before Steidten eventually left the club, given the sheer amount of money he spent for limited success (Daily Mirror).
With the German accepting that some of his transfers, like Niclas Fullkrug, were mistakes, it is clear that he knew it was the end of the road before it even happened.
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