New West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan has confirmed plans to shake-up the front office.

Sullivan intends to deal with transfers himself, leaving the future of technical director Gianluca Nani unclear.

The arrival of Karren Brady as vice-chairman completes the Birmingham connection at Upton Park, but her salary will be met by Sullivan and David Gold rather than the club.

Indeed the duo will themselves not take a wage as the new regime look to cut costs and reduce the enormous debt levels, which are owed to both banks and other clubs, including settlements to Sheffield United over the Carlos Tevez affair and former manager Alan Curbishley.

"We are fully behind the manager, but I do not want to go into all staff," Sullivan said. "There may be some changes at some level, we are going to look at all sorts of things.

"We do not rush into decisions."

Sullivan added: "There has to be some savings here. This is a club haemorrhaging money. There may have to be economies, and there is no point saying otherwise.

"To put things in perspective, I will be earning nothing, David will be earning nothing.

"We are personally paying Karren's wages for the next 12 months so she is not a burden to the club at all.

"We are not coming here with baggage which will cost the club money, we are all going to make a contribution at zero cost to the club."