Julen Lopetegui was announced this Thursday as the new coach of West Ham United, in what will be his second Premier League venture after saving Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 2022-2023 season. The Basque coach, who has been out of work since leaving Wolves on his own initiative last summer, replaces David Moyes at the east London club, who has been in charge for five years, having qualified the ‘Hammers’ three years in a row in Europe and made them Conference League champions.
Since his departure from Wolves, driven by the club’s lack of investment and the sale of key players, Lopetegui’s desire has always been to continue in the Premier League and he held talks with Nottingham Forest before they signed him.
With a past in the lower categories of the Spanish team, in Porto, Sevilla, where he won the Europa League, Real Madrid and the Spanish team, Lopetegui will take a West Ham team with European aspirations , although they will not be competing in the continental competition next season, and above all the need to implement a style of play that moves away from Moyes’ conservatism which has so bored the fans and led to defeats such as received this season in London Arsenal’s 0-6 Stadium.
Lopetegui’s signing had been agreed for weeks, but was not made official until the Premier League finished to honor Moyes’ departure. With Lopetegui’s arrival in the Premier, there were five Spanish coaches in the competition; Mikel Arteta, at Arsenal, Pep Guardiola, at Manchester City, Andoni Iraola, at Bournemouth, and Unai Emery, at Aston Villa. Lopetegui will also be the first Spanish coach to coach West Ham.
Source: La Verdad
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