West Ham\u2019s board are split on Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo\u2019s future, opening the possibility of the manager staying after relegation from the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Nuno was called in for crisis talks on Monday and a decision is expected before the end of the week. It remains likely West Ham will part company with the Portuguese, although the situation is not as straightforward as first appeared. A source said that Daniel Kretinsky, the Czech billionaire and the club\u2019s second-largest shareholder, wants Nuno to stay. David Sullivan, the largest shareholder, is said to be less sure.<\/p>\n
Kretinsky has a deal lined up to increase his stake<\/a> and match Sullivan\u2019s control of the club. The co-owners are each poised to buy a portion of the Gold family\u2019s 25.1% stake, which would leave them sharing power in the boardroom. It is thought relegation will affect the value of the deal.<\/p>\n Sullivan has been the most influential figure at West Ham for 16 years but has been blamed for the team\u2019s slide<\/a> into the Championship and faced abuse from supporters during last Sunday\u2019s win over Leeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n One source said there was a 50-50 chance of Sullivan deciding to sell up after relegation. But the 77-year-old\u2019s involvement in talks with Nuno suggests he intends to stay. Sullivan is also understood to be involved in discussions over how to rebuild West Ham\u2019s squad and get the team ready to push for promotion.<\/p>\n Nuno was hired on a three-year deal after replacing Graham Potter last September. The contract contained a clause that allows West Ham to sack the 52-year-old without paying compensation. Nuno is also free to walk away, and his desire to stay and manage in the Championship will be a factor in the decision over his future. Scott Parker, Slaven Bilic and Gary O\u2019Neil are potential replacements.<\/p>\n West Ham\u2019s captain, Jarrod Bowen, has apologised to fans for a relegation that has come three years after the club won the Conference League in Prague. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to post something like this when all you\u2019re feeling is embarrassment and pain,\u201d he said on Instagram. \u201cI could write loads trying to explain where it all went wrong this season, but honestly what you deserve from me is an apology. Winning that trophy in Prague was the best night of my career. Sunday was the worst. We just weren\u2019t good enough. Simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham\u2019s board are split on Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo\u2019s future, opening the possibility of the manager staying after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-666069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}