Roberto De Zerbi leaves Brighton; Pochettino, Chelsea; Arne Slot will replace Jürgen Klopp on the Anfield home bench… and Julen Lopetegui will be the new West Ham manager! This is what the group has announced hammer: “We are pleased to announce the appointment of Julen Lopetegui as the club’s new coach. “The former coach of Spain, Porto, Real Madrid and Sevilla will officially start working on July 1.”. With the agreement between the coach and the club closed for weeks, as reported by AS, after confirming the departure of David Moyes at the end of the season, The London team takes over the services of the former Wolverhampton coach, just over a season ago..
The one of the wolves It was the former coach’s first experience in the Premier League, among other teams, Real Madrid, Sevilla or the Spanish National Team. Disagreements with the management of the Molineux Stadium team ended Julen Lopetegui’s career in Englandonce miraculously saved the wolves of relegation, ahead of time, but Asteasu’s natural coach was left wanting more. As this newspaper has explained, Julen Lopetegui remained in the British Isles waiting for an offer that would satisfy his aspirations. After negotiations with AC Milan and interest from Manchester United, West Ham was the one that ended up betting the biggest on the Spaniard.
Julen Lopetegui, who has signed a contract until 2026, inherits a project that, although it has not managed to qualify for European competitions -the hammers They have finished the 2023-2024 Premier League in ninth position with 52 points–, it is full of players to fight with, next year, to travel around the old continent. Surely players like Lucas Paquetá, Mohammed Kudus or Jarrod Bowen They will have several important offers after the performance shown, but retaining them will be a large part of the basis of Julen Lopetegui’s new project at the London Stadium.
Likewise, during the three and a half years that David Moyes directed the hammershis second stage at the helm of the London clubthe Scot returned West Ham to Europe, even leading the east London team to become champions of the Conference League in 2023. The hiring of the Guipuzcoan confirms, even more so, the preponderance of Spanish coaches in the Premier League. With Julen Lopetegui there are five (Pep Guardiola, Mikel Arteta, Unai Emery and Andoni Iraola) who will lead teams in the English top divisionand curiously four of them from the Basque Country.
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