The Basque coach will try his luck in the Premier League after reaching an agreement with the English club
Wolverhampton Wanderers have announced the appointment of Julen Lopetegui as their new manager. After being sacked by Sevilla less than a month ago, the Basque coach is embarking on a new career in English football.
Once his resignation from the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán bench was completed, Lopetegui became Wolverhampton’s main target following the resignation of Bruno Lage. Jeff Shi, head of the entity, traveled to Spain to convince him. “The talks were very friendly and the Wolves managed to present a case of a team with a lot of potential and with players who will immediately understand what Lopetegui could do with them,” said journalist Guillem Balagué a few weeks ago. Asteasu ultimately turned down the proposal due to his 92-year-old father’s health condition. Now that these family problems have been resolved, the former Sevilla coach will sit on Molineux’s local bench with the aim of getting the ‘wolves’ out of relegation.
Lopetegui will take over for the Wolves in a situation similar to Seville’s as the England team are relegated with 10 points. Under his command are high quality players with a history in our league such as Nelson Semedo, Jonny Otto, Adama Traoré, Diego Costa, Raúl Jiménez and Gonçalo Guedes. However, the flagship and fundamental pillar of the team is Rúben Neves, a Portuguese midfielder wanted by FC Barcelona.
The signing is backed by Jorge Mendes, who holds a lot of power at the club and has already suggested the Spanish coach’s name as Solskjaer’s replacement at Manchester United.
Lopetegui is an old dream of the sports management of the “wolves”. In 2016, when his term at Porto ended, where he finished second in the league and reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League against Guardiola’s Bayern, he received a call from Wolverhampton and they were close to reaching an agreement. However, the Basque coach received an irrefutable offer: to become a national coach. His career in the national team was flawless and Spain started as a favorite in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but a few days before the start of the competition, he was sacked by Luis Rubiales when his deal with Real Madrid was announced for the following season.
On his return to the Madrid squad, where he had already trained in the lower categories, he was out of luck and was sacked on matchday ten after a poor start in the League. He returned to the bench in 2019 at the hands of Monchi, who trusted him as a coach on his return to Nervión. He has had three successful seasons at Sevilla, reaching a Europa League in 2020 and establishing the team in championship positions.
In this new adventure in the Premier League, Lopetegui will seek to achieve the stability that the Sevillan club lacked at the start of the season, where he endured very tough weeks and had to struggle to lead Sevilla against Borussia Dortmund, knowing that he he has been fired. Asteasu’s debut this weekend against Brighton, one of this season’s revelations in English football.
Source: La Verdad
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