Having now made their position pretty clear regarding Lopetegui’s future, the West Ham management will be revisiting the shortlist to replace Lopetegui if the West Ham side fail to win the ‘must-win’ match against Everton next weekend.
Tim Steidten’s influence will be key – the jury is out on’who chose Lopetegui’ but rumours suggests Sullivan made the appointment whilst Steidten sat in on the interview.
IF Tim Steidten is allowed a free rein I could see him selecting Edin Terzic as a natural successor. Number one because he is available and won’t cost a compensation payment (we know that West Ham on principle will not pay other club’s compensation packages for Head Coaches).
Number two because he is a proven winner in the Bundesliga. A league well known to Steidten.
Terzic, after assisting Slaven Bilic at London Stadium, according to ‘coachesvoice.com’: ” Went on to coach Dortmund as an assistant coach in 2017. Then, in December 2020, he took over as interim manager until the end of the season, winning the German Cup.
After a season as technical director, he became manager on a permanent basis going into the 2022/23 campaign. That year, Dortmund agonisingly lost the title to Bayern on goal difference on the last day of the season, drawing 2-2 at home against Mainz when a win would have secured top spot.
Terzic and the club bounced back the following season, reaching a Wembley final after winning a Champions League group of death containing Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), AC Milan and Newcastle United, then eliminating PSV Eindhoven, Atlético Madrid and PSG in the knockouts.”
A pretty good pedigree, and no ‘job-hopping’ after ten or fifteen games. Terzic looks a solid performer. As far as his style:
“Terzic has mostly used 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 formations as Dortmund manager. Favouring a possession-based style of play, his Dortmund averaged 58 per cent possession in his first full season. That put them second in the Bundesliga’s possession rankings in 2022/23.
They have typically built with a back four, including expansive full-backs where possible. Ahead, Terzic has used a single pivot and two eights – positioned in the half-spaces – who are integral to combining with the full-backs, in order to escape pressure on their build. The wide players have the option to roll inside to narrower positions, occupying opposing centre-backs on different lines to full-backs. This provides more central passing options”
And according to caughtoffside.com just yesterday: “Terzic has shown at the German club that he can manage a big club with expectations, and he is capable of implementing an attractive style of football as well.”
Sounds like he would give West Ham a new sense of organisation and direction: Plus he knows the club, being a former Hammers head coach back in the Boleyn days. He’ll also know how to get the best out of former Dortmund player Niclas Fullkrug if he ever gets back to full fitness!
More to the point can we afford not to because he don’t know what he’s doing which gaurantees the players don’t which equals relegation scrap not good
Sad to see your knees wobbling so quickly.
You once talked sense.
https://www.claretandhugh.info/three-man-shortlist-to-replace-lopetegui-youll-not-believe-one-of-them/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGVgaJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHa2sWJbMGyONNEsgPLe3Hvok-g8AUa3M7XkFiRoAMvRyr2af_vCdswh6bQ_aem_jH7Y_ucDIIewqUyy8qqzkQ
“And on a serious note, in the meantime can we calm down and support our team? And our head coach? By all means, criticise, highlight, opine, discuss, but five games in? Replace him? Just. No.
‘United” – Its not just the third word on our badge, it means something.”
Ahh I see, because you don’t agree with me, I’m not talking sense. Interesting.
It’s all getting boring now; the vocal minority of supporters made Moyes staying untenable and now they haven’t got the balls to back the replacement to a point where a reasonable decision can be made. Spurs sacked Nuno Espírito Santo after 4 months and replaced him with Conte. I wonder who fared better out of that deal…….. grow a pair!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
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What is it with this possession based football all the time.
It means nothing.
We don’t have players who can play like this.
The big problem is they have brought in 8 players and none of them have improved the team, in fact some of them are worse than what we had.
If you are shipping goals and not creating chance, everything suggests the midfield isn’t working, there’s too many players not doing it.
If you have bad players you get bad results.
That’s the answer, our players aren’t good enough.
Look Lopetegui has had no real style but whatever he tells the players they also need to perform . I am seeing no real performance on the pitch . Whoever the manager is the players should be doing better ! That doesn’t mean Lopetegui should stay he’s not done anything
Sullivan has achieved threethings a move to a @@@stadium dinosaur manager after another and 70 failed strikers. W
It’ll be Potter. Sullivan usually goes British after a foreign dalliance and he’s out of work too.
Go for Thomas frank or marco silva
And I fancy we would have a chance of getting one of them 2 good managers we plenty of experience
Especially in the prem
how many “that is all”s do i have to read? numpty
Oh, the name calling. What a tough guy.
“Having now made their position pretty clear regarding Lopetegui’s future, the West Ham management will be revisiting the shortlist to replace Lopetegui if the West Ham side fail to win the ‘must-win’ match against Everton next weekend.”
Martin, pray tell us where this info comes from.
https://www.claretandhugh.info/exclusive-everton-is-a-must-win-game-for-west-hams-lopetegui/
Ahh….”A senior source”….Thanks for clearing that up Martin
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I had a quick browse on YouTube and found several tactical videos he did during his time at Dortmund. He was a really clear communicator who didn’t leave any doubt what he meant. The tactics seemed intelligent and logical. Seemed a character you could relate to. A light year away from Lopetegui who talks in confused clichés. I don’t know if he’s the answer but he could be a breath of fresh air to clear the confused chaos.
It’ll be Ten Hag and here’s why.
Firstly he’s unemployed so no compensation. Secondly he’s got PL experience. Thirdly he has some success on his CV, Dutch league, league Cup and FA Cup. Finally he has managed some of our players previously in AWB, Kudus and Alvarez.
I don’t want him one bit, but I can see Sullivan employing the above logic.
As long as Sullivan is owner, nothing changes.
Fact remains we have only lost to teams in the current top seven so far. If we can beat the other thirteen teams maybe it won’t be such a bad season.
We all know Sullivan will keep Lopetegui at least until the end of the season. It’s what he does.
We get smashed a lot. We fluke a few games we never deserved, but seem to do always enough do sit around 12 to 15th in the table. We beat one top Champions League side in a cup and then get shafted away from home against another. Sounds like a typical West Ham season to me. Has Davy Boy Gone?
Now look at why he left. Bust ups with several most senior players- a red flag for me.
Can we even afford to sack the current manager and his staff at such an early stage in his contract?