{"id":149592,"date":"2025-09-20T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149592\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:45:07","slug":"graham-potter-west-ham-head-coach-facing-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149592\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Potter: West Ham head coach facing exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Ham head coach Graham Potter’s position is under significant internal scrutiny with the club now considering managerial alternatives.<\/p>\n

Potter, 50, is under growing pressure to keep his job at the London Stadium following a disappointing start to the season that plunged to new depths following Saturday’s home defeat by Crystal Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Multiple sources have told BBC Sport that even prior to Saturday’s loss – their fourth from five Premier League games – the Hammers had started the process of identifying potential replacements for Potter.<\/p>\n

Nuno Espirito Santo, recently sacked by Nottingham Forest<\/a>, is understood to be among the options West Ham have pinpointed.<\/p>\n

The prospect of Slaven Bilic – who has previously played and managed the London club – returning on a short-term basis has, according to sources, been discussed internally.<\/p>\n

West Ham are also aware of the availability of former Bournemouth and Wolves boss Gary O’Neil.<\/p>\n

There is a realisation behind the scenes that removing Potter so early in the new Premier League season is not ideal, with just five games played.<\/p>\n

But the fact they have started the process of identifying potential replacements illustrates the emerging uncertainty over Potter’s future.<\/p>\n

Following today’s loss to Oliver Glasner’s side, West Ham face Everton next weekend before playing Arsenal before the international break.<\/p>\n

Potter, who was appointed in January<\/a>, has taken charge of 25 matches since his appointment – winning just six times.<\/p>\n

His predecessor Julen Lopetegui took charge of 22 games before his dismissal, winning seven matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham head coach Graham Potter’s position is under significant internal scrutiny with the club now considering managerial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-149592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}