West Ham make Julen Lopetegui sack decision - with four replacements shortlisted

West Ham person made a mediocre commencement to the play and unit is increasing connected caput manager Julen Lopetegui, who faces the sack if the Hammers' rotten signifier continues aft the planetary break

Julen Lopetegui is warring to prevention his occupation astatine West Ham, with upcoming games against Newcastle and Arsenal acceptable to beryllium decisive.

The erstwhile Real Madrid boss, 58, was only appointed by the Hammers successful the summer pursuing the departure of the long-serving David Moyes. But Lopetegui has failed to deed the crushed moving oregon triumph implicit the club's fans.

West Ham person won conscionable 3 of their 11 Premier League fixtures truthful acold this term, leaving them 5 points supra the relegation zone. And portion the club's bulk owner, David Sullivan, is reluctant to marque a managerial alteration midseason, determination are present superior concerns among the club's powerbrokers over their mediocre commencement to the campaign.

West Ham person spent the planetary interruption talking to and lining up imaginable replacements, arsenic they springiness superior information to making a change.

As archetypal reported by The Guardian the likes of Edin Terzic and Kasper Hjulmand, formerly of the Denmark nationalist team, person been the taxable of interior checks, arsenic person Roger Schmidt and Stuttgart’s highly-rated caput coach, Sebastian Hoeness.

And Lopetegui is apt to wage the eventual terms if West Ham grounds mediocre results against Newcastle and Arsenal, with the anticipation that his destiny is decided sooner if the fixture against the erstwhile results successful a dense defeat.

Questions person been raised implicit Lopetegui's tactics successful the aftermath of West Ham's mediocre commencement to the season. Fans person not been shy successful voicing their dissent, either, and arsenic acold backmost arsenic September they booed Lopetegui implicit substitutions the Spaniard made successful a 3-0 decision to Chelsea.

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Lopetegui's erstwhile stint successful the Premier League was besides a little one. He stood down from his relation arsenic caput manager of Wolves astatine the commencement of past play aft conscionable 9 months astatine the helm.

The Hammers brag precocious addressed the unit connected him earlier insisting determination was plentifulness of clip to crook things around. He said: "I person lived with other unit from my archetypal time arsenic a coach. I cognize my job, what we are doing present and what we tin do.

"I effort to enactment the absorption connected the regular enactment and the adjacent match, this is the main happening I bash arsenic a manager and the players too. But I recognize the question - ever we enactment nether unit and we person to judge that it is mean successful our job.

"I americium definite that we person a batch of clip to alteration and to crook this atrocious infinitesimal into a bully moment."

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