Tuesday 4 November 2014 11:34, UK
West Ham co-owner David Sullivan says he will hold new contract talks with manager Sam Allardyce at the end of the current season.
Sullivan says fans are warming to the new style of football that the Hammers are playing under Big Sam this season, a new approach that has seen the club climb to fifth in the Premier League table.
"We will all sit down exactly the same as we did last season, exactly the same as the season before and the end of the first year in the Premier League when Sam's contract ran out and we sat down and agreed a new deal," Sullivan told Sky Sports News HQ.
He has an image of being some sort of rough northerner and probably not very bright
"We will sit down at the end of this season with Sam and sees how he feels about everything and see how he feels about everything and then decide what we are doing.
When asked if Allardyce would be the manager to lead the club into the Olympic Stadium for the 2016-17 season,
Sullivan added: "In all probability but he might be the manager of Manchester United or the manager of England, anything is possible in football."
Sullivan says his relationship with Allardyce has always been good and the two of them have never had a cross
word during the 60-year-old's reign at the club.
He said: "It's very amicable, we have never had a cross word. Sam is an intelligent, smart person. He has an image of being some sort of rough northerner and probably not very bright - this is the image I would say.
"But, in fact he is a very intelligent person, he analyses stats, he analyses performance, he analyses the opposition, he analyses his own players and he is a very, very intelligent man. You can have a very sensible conversation with him.
"Fans are warming to him but he's from the north and West Ham is a London club. We didn't play the best football at the time but I don't think it was as bad as people said. They are warming to the new Sam, and the new West Ham, and the way we are playing."
