West Ham, the fine in Zouma is expensive: the teammates now know the defender’s salary … and they want a raise

In England the topic of the week, and it could not be otherwise, is the behavior of Kurt Zouma. The violence of the West Ham footballer towards his cat, filmed and posted on social media by his brother, has outraged the whole country and not just those who particularly care about animals. The defender immediately apologized on his profiles, but this obviously was not enough for the company, which decided to impose the highest possible fine on him, the one that provides for a two-week cut from the salary. Too bad that, with all the publicity this case has received, now the Hammers are having some internal problems precisely because of the sanction against the transalpine defender.

MORE PAID – Yeah, because as the DailyMail, teammates … have come to terms. And if the Zouma fine, which will be donated entirely to the RSPCA, acronym for Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is 250,000 pounds, this means that the former Chelsea receives 125,000 a week. Which makes him the highest paid player in the squad, even more than players like Michail Antonio, who recently renewed his contract, and Andriy Yarmolenko, the team’s stars, who stop at around £ 100,000 a week, already including even the bonuses. Enough to launch a real revolution inside the locker room, with the cascading request for contract adjustments.

RICE – The thorniest cases for the Hammers are those of Declan Rice, Tomas Soucek, Pablo Fornals and Vladimir Coufal, all important players for Moyes who earn much less than Zouma. In particular Rice, who in 2018 swore loyalty to the club by signing a six-year contract (expiring therefore in 2024), but who right now, given his importance for the team and for the national team, could also decide that an increase he deserves it and how. A big problem, considering that in the light of the Zouma case some of the West Ham sponsors have decided to terminate their contracts, putting the club in a less than optimal financial situation. But no one expected that the fine, applied for practically … by everyone, would become the catalyst for this story.