David Gold has responded to a West Ham United fan on Twitter after being accused of nearly losing out on Jesse Lingard in January.
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The Hammers signed the 28-year-old on loan from Manchester United in January.
Lingard has already had a huge impact at the London Stadium.
The recently recalled England international has four goals and one assist to his name in six games for West Ham so far.
The Hammers paid a £1.5 million loan fee for Lingard and are covering the 28-year-old’s entire £100k-a-week wages (Evening Standard).
Bringing Lingard to East London looks like an absolute masterstroke from David Moyes.
It was touch and go whether we would actually get the deal done late on in January, however.
David Gold responded to a West Ham fan on Twitter who criticised him for nearly messing up the deal to sign Jesse:
Gold has a history of winding up the West Ham fanbase.
He always seems to get the wrong end of the stick on Twitter and he does his reputation amongst the fans no good whatsoever with his misjudged tweets.
Gold, along with David Sullivan, is far from popular in the East End.
Regarding the Lingard signing, however, we can’t really criticise the owners. They got the deal done in the end and that’s all that matters.
Now let’s hope that Gold and Sullivan complete the deal to sign Jesse permanently in the summer.
That would be a true sign of whether they have any kind of ambition or not.
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