Big twist after top inside West Ham source responds to major David Sullivan and Tim Steidten claim

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West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan appointed Tim Steidten as the director of football in July 2023.

Tim Steidten arrived at the London Stadium with a big reputation following his success at Bayer Leverkusen, but it wasn’t until the summer of 2024 when David Sullivan gave the German full control of transfers.

Julen Lopetegui took over from David Moyes this summer just gone, so that made Steidten’s increased power easier to facilitate.

However, things have not gone well for West Ham so far this season.

The football has been terrible to watch, and the results haven’t been there either, with a return of just 12 points from 11 games to our name.

Sullivan must be thinking that he made a big error by appointing Lopetegui in the summer, but the West Ham co-owner is a stubborn man, we all know that.

A big claim has been made by The Times suggesting that the 75-year-old might just be questioning his choice.

West Ham source responds to David Sullivan / Tim Steidten claim

The Hammers co-owner is far from popular at the London Stadium right now.

And it seems like Steidten doesn’t have too many fans either.

However, the main problem is quite clearly still Lopetegui in my eyes. So it was no surprise when The Times claimed on Sunday that Sullivan and Steidten are set for crunch talks this week, regarding the Spaniard’s future after the Hammers’ poor start to the season.

However, it appears as though that may well not be the case at all.

Sean Whetstone, a reporter very close to Sullivan, has claimed that the claim suggesting crunch talks regarding Lopetegui’s future are pencilled in for this week are in fact not true at all.

A senior source said, “There is no truth in the story.“

I’m not sure who to believe in all fairness.

I do think that replacing Lopetegui now would have one very big pro and a huge con as well.

The argument for sacking him now and bringing in someone new would be so that the new manager has a couple of weeks to settle in and work with the squad.

However, one big reason why that might not be a great idea is that we face games against Newcastle and Arsenal immediately after the international break – not ideal matches for us to get that new manager bounce!

I think if West Ham lose those two games, David Sullivan and Tim Steidten need to sit down and decide on who they can bring in to replace Lopetegui.

The Hammers have a fairly kind run of fixtures from the start of December onwards, and we can’t afford to head into them with Lopetegui still in charge as far as I’m concerned.