West Ham: Julen Lopetegui defiant on future ahead of 'make-or-break' Newcastle and Arsenal clashes

Julen Lopetegui has insisted that helium is paying nary attraction to speculation surrounding his West Ham aboriginal amid reports helium is facing 2 make-or-break games

Backed heavy successful the transportation marketplace with an £150million+ outlay to bolster the squad with the additions of Max Kilman, Luis Guilherme, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Crysencio Summerville, Niclas Fullkrug and Jean-Clair Todibo.

However, it has been a hard commencement to beingness successful eastbound London for the erstwhile Real Madrid, Sevilla, Wolves and Spain nationalist squad manager.

The Hammers person won conscionable 3 of their opening 11 Premier League games - 2 of which person been against teams beneath them successful the array - and are lone 5 points supra the relegation portion heading into this weekend's fixtures.

With a travel to Newcastle United and a location London derby against Arsenal connected the skyline for West Ham, reports assertion Lopetegui has these 2 games to prevention his occupation arsenic the nine are said to person utilized the planetary interruption to research imaginable replacements.

Furthermore, the Guardian authorities that though the nine are clinging connected to the anticipation the Spaniard tin crook things concern around, content successful the manager is fading and defeats successful those aforementioned matches are apt to person superior ramifications for the 58-year-old.

However, Lopetegui came retired warring astatine his pre-match property league connected Friday. Responding to a question astir dealing with unit helium stressed the squad should beryllium judged travel the extremity of the season.

"I don't perceive oregon work astir what is said, I similar to enactment hard. We enactment each of our absorption connected what we tin control, and that's moving hard and trying to improve,” helium insisted.

“The play ends successful May, truthful let's spot however we're doing past alternatively than successful November.

“The lone happening I'm focused connected present is going to Newcastle connected Monday, and trying to get a bully effect successful a pugnacious game.”

It should beryllium noted that David Sullivan, West Ham’s largest shareholder, has been reluctant to marque a managerial alteration mid-season.

However, the Guardian person reported that Sullivan could execute a u-turn arsenic alarm implicit the performances nether Lopetegui is increasing with the nine looking astatine the erstwhile Borussia Dortmund manager Edin Terzic, and making interior checks connected erstwhile Denmark manager Kasper Hjulmand, erstwhile Benfica manager Roger Schmidt and Stuttgart’s Sebastian Hoeness.