Julen Lopetegui has just provided a truly breathtaking defence to David Sullivan during a board meeting it seems.
The under-fire Julen Lopetegui has been kept on as West Ham manager by David Sullivan for the Wolves game it seems.
The Hammers were said to be lining up a move to appoint Graham Potter to replace Lopetegui ahead of a board meeting this afternoon.
However, the 58-year-old West Ham head coach has reportedly been handed a stay of execution.
How Lopetegui is still in charge at the London Stadium beggars belief.
He has been so far off the levels required during his first five months at the club.
And it seems like Sullivan continues to be hoodwinked by the former Wolves boss.
You won’t believe what Julen Lopetegui has just told David Sullivan
The Hammers are a club in crisis right now, there’s no two ways about it.
Lopetegui was the wrong appointment from the start, and we all knew it would end up like this.
The really annoying thing is that it seems like the Spaniard is desperate trying to cling on to his job.
Sky Sports have divulged what Lopetegui told Sullivan today during a high-level meeting:
“When he was hired by West Ham he was asked to do three things – 1) integrate nine new signings, some with no experience of playing at the highest level, 2) change the system they were playing in order to create more chances and 3) win games on a more consistent basis. Lopetegui is fully aware there is a lot of room for improvement, but believes he’s hitting two of those three objectives whilst in the process of a rebuild.“
So I presume that he believes he has integrated the nine new signings well and has implemented a more attractive style of football.
He clearly couldn’t have claimed to have improved results could he, as it was the only remit that isn’t open to interpretation.
The football has been atrocious, and let’s be real here, he definitely hasn’t got his new signings to gel yet.
Whilst we’re on the subject of the new signings, aside from Luis Guilherme and maybe Crysencio Summerville, they all had experience of playing at the highest level.
So that part of the statement from Sky Sports was a strange one – they made it sound like we signed a load of unknown youngsters in the summer!
Julen Lopetegui must be living in a dreamworld if he thinks he’s meeting two thirds of the targets set by David Sullivan.
And I’m really surprised that a billionaire businessman like Sullivan can’t see through that utter delusion.
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