West Ham manager Sam Allardyce will be offered a new contract at Upton Park if he secures Premier League survival for the Irons, the Sun say today.
The newspaper claim that a source within the club has told them that "if the club stays up, Sam will be offered a new deal. He will have brought us up in a season and kept us up- it gets no better than that. The club needs stability and he will have brought that; but if we were relegated, he would have to accept a big pay cut (in the event of being offered a new contract) and that probably wouldn't be acceptable."
If a new deal were offered to Sam, according to what Blowing Bubbles has understood from our sources previously, it would be in the region of £1.5-2 million a year- a fair deal on paper. However, if we are to take this source as genuine, it seems to imply that the club are refusing to rule out the possibility of offering him a new deal in the event that we are relegated; as in the statement making clear that it would be unlikely that Big Sam would stay if we went down, the emphasis is very much on what Allardyce himself would want and not what the club themselves would be prepared to offer.
This is all purely theoretical of course, but it is a nasty thought that the club wouldn't definitely make a change of manager if we finished in the bottom three. Love Sam as I do, there's no way we should keep him if he take us down; keeping a manager after relegation never ends well.
By Alex Shilling, News Editor
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