West Ham head coach Graham Potter took coaching as regular on Monday with the membership’s board nonetheless to resolve whether or not or to not change the Englishman on the London Stadium.
If the membership made a change now, the brand new head coach’s first two video games can be tough-looking away journeys at Everton and Arsenal.
Due to this fact, one consideration is {that a} change – if required – needs to be made throughout the worldwide break following these video games.
West Ham are believed to be contemplating Nuno Espirito Santo and two different unnamed managers as potential replacements for Potter ought to he go away the membership.
Former Hammers supervisor Slaven Bilic can also be accessible and keen to return – even when it means simply signing a short-term contract till the top of the season.
‘The stats make grim studying for Potter’
Evaluation by Sky Sports activities’ Pete Smith:
Potter changed Julen Lopetegui in January, however West Ham have gone backwards since then.
The previous Brighton and Chelsea boss struggled to ship constant performances within the second half of final season as West Ham limped to a 14th-placed end – the spot Lopetegui had left them in. They’re now nineteenth and any hope of a lift from a pre-season with Potter and a squad overhaul this summer season has already vanished.
The stats make grim studying for Potter. There have been simply six wins in his 23 Premier League video games – and solely three within the final 16. The truth is, Potter now has a worse win proportion than Lopetegui – and solely marginally higher than Avram Grant’s file low for a West Ham boss within the Premier League.
A winless run stretching to eight video games on the London Stadium has elevated the ire among the many match-going Hammers followers, who haven’t seen their facet be victorious in a sport at house since late February, whereas the fashion of play beneath Potter has pissed off them, too.
Potter’s West Ham is a workforce which permits the opposition extra passes earlier than intervening than another facet within the high flight – after which ranks third backside for direct assaults up the pitch once they have it. It’s definitely not edge-of-your-seat stuff.
The true motion occurs when West Ham should defend crosses or corners and their vulnerability in these conditions raises questions on training-ground work performed by Potter and his teaching workers to arrange for these moments.
When Potter was requested on Saturday if he’s nonetheless the best man to steer West Ham, his reply was an adamant “of course”. The bulk within the stands wouldn’t have the identical conviction, with Hammers followers becoming a member of in with the away supporters chanting ‘sacked within the morning’ on the under-fire Hammers boss on Saturday.
West Ham’s subsequent six fixtures
- Everton (a) Sept 29, Premier League, 8pm – dwell on Sky Sports activities
- Arsenal (a) Oct 4, Premier League, 3pm
- Brentford (h) Oct 20, Premier League, 8pm – dwell on Sky Sports activities
- Leeds United (a) Oct 24, Premier League, 8pm – dwell on Sky Sports activities
- Newcastle United (a) Nov 2, Premier League, 2pm – dwell on Sky Sports activities
- Burnley (h) Nov 8, Premier League, 3pm