{"id":172798,"date":"2025-09-27T12:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172798\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:54:08","slug":"graham-potter-sacked-as-west-ham-manager-latest-reaction-nuno-espirito-santo-to-take-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172798\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Potter sacked as West Ham manager, latest, reaction, Nuno Espirito Santo to take job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham have sacked head coach Graham Potter after only nine months in charge, with the club sitting 19th in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResults 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\u2019s position in the Premier League as soon as possible,\u201d the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the biggest Aussie sports &amp; the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgeneric-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-grc-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"West Ham United's English head coach Graham Potter.\" attribution=\"test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/244e75c74145520aef3a15118df78b54.jpeg\" \/>West Ham United&#8217;s English head coach Graham Potter.Source: AFP<\/p>\n<p>Potter, 50, took over at the London Stadium in January with the club in 14th position, where they finished the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The club have picked up just three points from their opening five Premier League games and are due to face Everton on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea boss Potter in January signed a two-and-a-half-deal after replacing Julen Lopetegui, who lasted only 22 matches after taking over from long-serving boss David Moyes, The club confirmed 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process of appointing a replacement is underway. The club will be making no further comment at this time,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple UK reports, Nuno Espirito Santo is set to become West Ham\u2019s new manager just weeks after he was sacked at Nottingham Forest and later replaced by Australian Ange Postecoglou.<\/p>\n<p>Nuno was set to take the team\u2019s next training session and would be in charge for West Ham\u2019s next clash against Everton on Tuesday (AEST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham have sacked head coach Graham Potter after only nine months in charge, with the club sitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2620,64,63,12028,5330,1614,112521,85],"class_list":["post-172798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-graham-potter","tag-head-coach","tag-premier-league","tag-sack-head","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}