The news from Claret and Hugh‘s insider that Nuno Espírito Santo will have no contract to remain at West Ham if the club are relegated and will likely ‘be gone‘ is indeed something of a double-edged sword. The Hammers manager is under huge pressure since Tottenham beat Aston Villa and derailed the Irons’ late push to escape the relegation zone
With no automatic contract for the Championship, Nuno has the ultimate ‘incentivised’ deal; A blunt “Stay up to stay put” arrangement that probably suits both parties.
The fact that West Ham’s board will not have to pay compensation to remove Nuno if the club does slide into the Championship at least removes the financial jeopardy that has blighted the Hammers’ last two managerial departures: Potter and Lopegeui are still on the books and being paid compensation after failing. Nuno, at least, won’t become the third ‘removed’ manager on the payroll.
As football insider247.com wrote on Monday:
“West Ham are already eyeing replacements for Nuno and have a number of potential options in mind.”
Alongside all of his squad, West Ham’s manager will be trying to stay focussed on the job in hand but few would blame him or his agent for casting his eye over vacant situations in top tiers around Europe over the coming weeks.
Far too good a coach to take the salary cut and face the lottery of a Championship campaign, The Portuguese head coach (who has an impressive CV with Porto, Tottenham, Forest and Wolves as well as West Ham) has made it clear from recent pronouncements that he still has the belief required to keep the Irons in the Premier League.
Whether his squad have it within them to overcome a rampant Arsenal this weekend is another matter. If not, as far as Nuno’s tenure as West Ham manager is concerned, it is likely a case of ‘ thirty games down, two more to go‘.
How many games has anyone enjoyed the football nu nu has given us. Totally defensively minded.Get a lead then sit back. So many points lost because of his tactics .Got out of jail against everton. al
On the brighter side, if we lose Nuno, then we can call upon the dynamic duo of Julen Lopetegui and Graham Potter to earn their pay by jointly leading us out of the mess of their creation.
Will save us a small fortune in managerial salary but we would need a nurse to look after them and show them what to do.
just about sums this board up.
run month by month with no vision and no plan. That’s why we are where we are.
only one plus, it could be an opportunity to get rid of the main clown in charge, Sullivan.
Brady walked before the implosion that she’s created with him. sunk in debt, no ground, no chance of increasing revenue, tin pot training ground, underfunded womens team who also have no ground…
Guess what, they all walk off into the sunset leaving us behind with nothing.
Birmingham fans warned us when they came in…
Well us fans have zero faith that the board will replace him with someone decent. I beleive once we are relagated..and we will be..then the club will become the new leicester..only worse. Even Leicester have an advantage over us with a stadium they own and a state of the art training ground. What do we have? A board that is only interested in fleecing its ‘customers’
I think most hammers fan want Nuno to stay if we are relegated. At the end of the day, he is a premiership manager and he can keep us up if we do get promoted. Just look at his Wolves side that ran riot in the Championship a few years ago. I want him to stay on.
We’re not going to get a better manager than Nuno for the Championship, so it doesn’t suit us at all?
Do fans honestly want Parker or Dyche? Christ – it’s a vicious circle with Sullivan’s inability to appoint a manager who isn’t a low block defensive dinosaur. Weird how Palace, Bournemouth, Brighton, Villa etc., all managed to appoint progressive managers, yet we keep harping back to the same old rubbish names.
Nuno is, genuinely, the best we’ll get with Sullivan at the helm, so let’s hope he stays.