Archive for September 27, 2025
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The new head coach took training at Rush Green on Saturday afternoon ahead of the trip to the Hill Dickinson stadium on Monday evening.
“Nuno is a more reactive tactician in the mould of David Moyes, the last successful West Ham boss, and appears almost as a continuity appointment that erases the Lopetegui and Potter years,” Alex Keble writes on the Premier League website.
Nuno has an excellent Premier League record. He has taken both Wolves and Nottingham Forest from relegation candidate to the Europa League and, as the statistics show, his Premier League points-per-game average surpasses any manager in West Ham’s modern history.
Nuno’s teams are always comfortable sitting deep, keeping things tight, and allowing the other side to hog possession as they wait to counter-attack: his Forest team averaged 41.2 per cent possession last season, the third-lowest share in the division.
Under Nuno’s tutelage Raul Jimenez excelled at Wolves and Chris Wood became a top striker at Forest. Fullkrug could be the next in line.Lack of quick wingers though might be an issue, essential to any counter-attacking side. West Ham have Crysencio Summerville to play here and Bowen, too, but their options are limited since selling Kudus in the summer.
It’s a significant issue that will probably, as has so often been the case over the years, put pressure on the captain Bowen to help his new boss get off to a good start.
Albeit Nuno may bear the name “Espirito”, his appointment is an uninspired one for me. Also the fact that Graham Potter was sacked less than 24 hours after he had to do his pre-match press conference (for a game he now will not be in charge anymore), shows that much is going wrong at West Ham. For me the campaign against the current Board is still a just cause.
Nuno set for West Ham job
West Ham are set to appoint former Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo as head coach after sacking Graham Potter, BBC reports.
Nuno is expected to be in place before Monday’s Premier League match against Everton, having said he has had positive talks with the West Ham board.
Potter, 50, was dismissed on Saturday morning after only eight months in charge, with the club 19th in the table. Potter took charge of 25 West Ham matches after being appointed in January – winning six – and they finished 14th last season.
Nuno, 51, was sacked after 21 months in charge at Forest – and only three games into this season.
Last term the Portuguese guided them to seventh in the table – their highest finish since 1994-95 – as they qualified for Europe for the first time in three decades.
Club Statement: Potter left
On Saturday, 27 September, West Ham United informed in the morning that Head Coach Graham Potter who had joined West Ham in January 2025, has left the Club. This is the Club’s statement:
Results and performances over the course of the second half of last season and the start of the 2025/26 season have not matched expectations, and the Board of Directors believe that a change is necessary in order to help improve the team’s position in the Premier League as soon as possible.
The Club can confirm that Assistant Coach Bruno Saltor, First Team Coaches Billy Reid and Narcis Pelach, Lead Goalkeeper Coach Casper Ankergren, and Goalkeeper Coach Linus Kandolin have also left with immediate effect.
The Board would like to thank Graham and his coaching staff for their hard work during their time with the Hammers and wish them every success for the future.
The process of appointing a replacement is underway. The Club will be making no further comment at this time.
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