West Ham ‘sound out former Champions League final manager’ as Julen Lopetegui ‘has TWO matches to save his job’

JULEN LOPETEGUI is not “listening oregon reading” astir immoderate sack speculation amid reports helium has TWO matches to prevention his West Ham job.

The Hammers are understood to person already sounded retired Edin Terzic, who guided Borussia Dortmund to past season's champions League earlier leaving the Bundesliga giants.

And it's claimed that should Lopetegui neglect to get decent results distant to Newcastle connected Monday and past astatine location to Arsenal adjacent Saturday, helium volition beryllium shown the exit door.

Typically, the West Ham hierarchy bash not marque mid-season firing but the nine are 14th successful the Premier League with lone 3 wins from 11 matches.

Terzic, a erstwhile Hammers' adjunct nether Slaven Bilic, is regarded arsenic a frontrunner should the Spaniard beryllium replaced.

He won the German Cup successful his archetypal spell successful complaint of Dortmund, arsenic interim chief.

Terzic returned to instrumentality the imperishable presumption but discontinue aft finishing 5th past season.

TalkSPORT accidental West Ham Director of shot Tim Steidten is simply a steadfast admirer of Terzic and that interaction has already been made.

It was enactment to Lopetegui, 58, that his clip could soon beryllium implicit successful East London.

But helium responded: “The lone happening I’m focused connected is to beryllium capable to spell to Newcastle successful a pugnacious lucifer against a precise bully team.

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“We person to beryllium acceptable to amended and to flooded the kinds of difficulties that we are going to person arsenic a team.

“The remainder of the things, judge maine this is football, it’s up to you. I’m not focused connected this.

“I’m not listening oregon reading. I’m focused connected moving successful my regular enactment to beryllium capable to recognize what things tin hap to beryllium a amended team.

“The remainder of the things are retired of my control.

“We enactment each our absorption connected the things that we tin power to beryllium capable to enactment better, with a precocious demanding, knowing that the players request to bash better.

“Knowing that the play arrives successful May, not November. So, let’s spot what happens successful two, 3 months.”

Lopetegui – who is without the suspended Edson Alvarez and Mohammed Kudus – said helium “talks each week” with president and largest shareholder David Sullivan.

He added: “Our beingness is to unrecorded nether pressure. Our enactment is similar this. That is wherefore we take this world.

“The much important happening is that we are moving precise hard to beryllium capable to amended a lot.

“The players person a large committedness to bash this. I’m definite that we are going to execute our levels.

“It’s existent that we are not blessed with the presumption that we are successful but it’s existent that we person a batch of clip to alteration this.

“We person done bully things, but not capable things and we person to bash much bully things. We person to beryllium capable to execute the champion level of each the players.

“We person to summation the level of each the team. I’m definite that each the players are progressive successful this improvement.”