Upson calls for Zola to be backed in the transfer market as West Ham are sold in 100m takeover

Matthew Upson has told West Ham's new owners to back boss Gianfranco Zola in the transfer market. The Hammers have today been sold to a group of Icelandic banks in a deal understood to be worth just over £100million.  The new owners are CB Holding, a company mainly owned by the Straumur-Burdaras investment bank, who have appointed one of their senior directors Andrew Bernhardt as the new non-executive chairman.