Who will be the new West Ham manager after Lopetegui sack?

Sarah Winterburn
West Ham new manager candidates.
West Ham new manager candidates.

Julien Lopetegui looks destined to be one of the next Premier League manager sacked after ‘leading’ West Ham to 13th in the Premier League table.

There had been signs of life with a four-match unbeaten run but then they got battered 5-0 by Liverpool and he did his odd substitutions thing.

Here are the top 10 candidates according to the bookies’ latest odds…

 

9=) John Heitinga
Currently an assistant at Liverpool, a role he fulfilled at West Ham last season under former Everton boss David Moyes. Interestingly, the Scot is available at the same lofty price for a return.

 

9=) Max Allegri
There have been various suggestions that Allegri has been in London taking English lessons in preparation for a job in the Premier League, and that he has somehow contributed his wage demands of £6.5m a year. But Allegri has won Serie A six times so we cannot help but think he might target a club a little higher than in the Premier League. Newcastle, maybe?

 

7=) Gareth Southgate
Bizarre if they oust David Moyes and Julen Lopetegui because of the eye-bleeding football and then appoint the former England manager.

 

7=) Russell Martin
Sacked by Southampton; this would be a PR nightmare for West Ham.

 

6) Gary O’Neil
Sacked by Bournemouth and Wolves; this would be a PR nightmare for West Ham.

 

5) Kasper Hjulmand
The former Denmark manager is said to be keen to return to club management. The problem? His only spell at a top-flight club outside of Denmark ended in disaster at Mainz 05.

 

3=) Sergio Conceicao
The Guardian claimed that ‘West Ham are considering Sérgio Conceição as a replacement for Julen Lopetegui’ along with several other names, while reports in France suggest that the former Porto boss will ignore overtures from Everton because he is far more keen on the West Ham job. A massive fan of bubbles, apparently.

 

3=) Edin Terzic

As you might have guessed, Florian Plettenberg is said to have close links with Tim Steidten.

 

2) Michael Carrick
Mark Noble – Sporting Director at West Ham – is said to be keen on his old teammate but Carrick is minded to stay at Middlesbrough and pursue promotion, while West Ham are minded to appoint a manager with some experience of top-flight football.

 

1) Graham Potter
‘Graham Potter has been sounded out by Wolves AND West Ham, talkSPORT understands.’

That initially left former Brighton and Chelsea boss Potter as the odds-on favourite, with talkSPORT claiming that Potter is more keen on taking the job at West Ham than Wolves. The alternative? Wait around for Tottenham. Poor sod.

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