West Ham vice-chair Karren Brady has defended the east London club's deal with the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) to move into the Olympic Stadium as of next season, reports the London Evening Standard.

West Ham will rent the 54,000 capacity stadium and disharmony has grown since a BBC documentary that aired earlier this month claimed that much of the ground's running costs will not be met by the club but Brady does not believe that the Premier League side constantly needs to justify their actions.

"You see, anyone could have bought this. Leyton Orient, the Qataris, anyone. But nobody saw it, nobody saw the potential here. So roll back that movie without West Ham. Taxpayers' money would have poured into a big hole, been concreted over and never seen again," she told the Daily Mail.

"Now the stadium is nearly finished, everyone recognises what is here and says it's a steal. But it wasn't a steal when we were doing the negotiations, because where was the queue of rival buyers?"

Brady believes that the stadium would have gone to ruin without West Ham's involvement and is confident that Slaven Bilic's side will help the site to become regarded as a 'national asset'.

"Without West Ham this would have been pulled down. It was going to be 25,000 with no roof. And what would have happened then? Who would have come to that stadium? That's a legacy? Tottenham just wanted to flatten it and start again. So no Olympic Stadium at all.

"This is going to be an asset, a national asset. We shouldn't have to keep justifying ourselves."