West Ham United are lining up potential replacements for Graham Potter after what has been a nightmare begin to 2025/2026, and one among their candidates could be very wanting to make the transfer to east London.
Graham Potter dealing with West Ham dismissal after poor begin
Potter’s win share since taking cost in January makes for fairly dismal studying.
Out of each single West Ham gaffer in Premier League historical past, his lowly 26.1 per cent win charge solely sits above that of Avram Grant, who guided the Hammers to relegation on the finish of 2010/2011.
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Worst West Ham managers within the Premier League |
Win share |
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9. Sam Allardyce |
30.7% |
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10. Julen Lopetegui |
30% |
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11. Gianfranco Zola |
27.8% |
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12 Graham Potter |
26.1% |
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13. Avram Grant |
18.9% |
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by way of StatMuse |
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Defensively, West Ham have been minimize by means of like a knife with sizzling butter — conceding extra objectives than some other prime flight facet to this point while displaying a severe weak spot in coping with set items.
The blame for West Ham’s hapless begin to 2025/2026 would not lay solely on the toes of Potter, although, as you may make a severe case that the ex-Chelsea boss was hardly backed with profitable gamers in the summertime.
“You’re bringing in gamers which might be used to dropping to this West Ham and saying ‘proper, now we’re going to vary the tradition of it’,” pundit Troy Deeney stated final week.
“How with individuals which might be used to dropping? Mentally it simply doesn’t make sense.
“At house in London derbies they’re getting battered, completely annihilated.
“So how can we count on that he (Potter) is the motivator, what’s he saying that will get you going, what’s the message? (Is he actually saying) ‘Oi you, get your socks up, let’s go and have it’. I simply don’t assume he’s that particular person.
“I really feel sorry for him as a result of he appears to be like like a pleasant man. However I feel sure groups require a sure supervisor.”
In any case, the overwhelming consensus is that Potter is quick operating out of time, and it’s believed that Potter might be given a keep of execution till the Arsenal recreation — to provide any new West Ham supervisor the very best likelihood of begin at house to Brentford (ExWHUemployee).
Slaven Bilic “ready” for provide to handle West Ham
Of the contenders to exchange Potter, Nuno EspÃrito Santo is reportedly in pole place for the potential West Ham job proper now (ExWHUemployee), however we can not low cost ex-Irons boss Slaven Bilic.
The Croatian, a former West Ham participant, was in cost between 2015 and 2017. Bilic guided West Ham to a seventh-placed end on the finish of his first marketing campaign, solely to be sacked two years later together with his facet sitting within the relegation zone.
Now, as per GiveMeSport, Bilic is able to make a West Ham return and is solely “ready” for his likelihood of reunion.
He’s in his homeland proper now monitoring occasions carefully, and if Potter can not flip issues round towards Everton and Arsenal, it seems he needs to take over from the 50-year-old.
Curiously, regardless of different alternatives, West Ham are one among simply two golf equipment Bilic would be a part of — alongside one other former membership in West Brom.
West Ham should rent Nuno forward of Bilic
Nonetheless, we consider that Bilic is not the suitable man to take them ahead, as evident by the very fact they’ve already sacked him as soon as. Nuno, then again, is a completely totally different matter.
The Portuguese’s inventory is again at an all-time excessive after a fairytale 2024/2025 at Nottingham Forest, and he’d nonetheless be on the Metropolis Floor now if not for a public fallout with controversial proprietor Evangelos Marinakis.
Nuno was awarded a brand-new contract simply months earlier than his Marinakis spat, and the considered him leaving Forest after final yr’s achievements was beforehand deemed unthinkable.
Taking his job at Wolves under consideration as nicely, Nuno has a confirmed observe report of serving to relegation-threatened sides climb the Premier League desk to determine themselves as European contenders.
The Previous Gold reached a Europa League quarter-final in 2020 beneath Nuno’s steering, and what’s extra, the 51-year-old has some trophy-winning expertise from his time in Saudi Arabia.
Nuno led Al-Ittihad to an SPL title solely to depart the Center East simply months later. With no different free brokers of his calibre accessible proper now, it’s crystal clear that the ex-goalkeeper needs to be given prime precedence to regular the ship after Potter’s inevitable exit.
