{"id":482776,"date":"2024-05-06T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482776"},"modified":"2024-05-06T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:41:37","slug":"lopetegui-gives-green-light-to-become-west-hams-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lopetegui-gives-green-light-to-become-west-hams-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Lopetegui gives green light to become West Ham&#8217;s head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julen Lopetegui has agreed on a contract to become West Ham United&#8217;s head coach at the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Bayern Munich enquired for Julen Lopetegui today but 57yo wants West Ham. Terms agreed (not signed) as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FabrizioRomano<\/a> reported after process led by Steidten made Spaniard choice to succeed Moyes. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WHUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WHUFC<\/a> now close to landing him <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheAthleticFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCBayern?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FCBayern<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/taPiXuYHWD\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/taPiXuYHWD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1787425990127280397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nothing is official yet, but Julen is close to returning to coaching in the Premier League after he left Wolverhampton in the past summer.<\/p>\n<p>Current West Ham manager David Moyes has come under increasing pressure after disappointing results as the Hammers won only 1 of their last 9 league matches and were eliminated from the UEL in the \u00bc finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers were humiliated by Chelsea 5-0 at Stamford Bridge at the end of the past weekend and are 9<sup>th<\/sup> in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>David, who\u2019s deal with the club runs out after the end of the season, has declined to speak about his future with the reporters, sharing that discussions about a new contract will not begin until their final match against Man City on May 19<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Lopetegui triumphed in the Europa League with Sevilla in 2020 before being appointed Wolverhampton boss 2 years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julen Lopetegui has agreed on a contract to become West Ham United&#8217;s head coach at the end of the campaign. \ud83d\udea8 Bayern Munich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482777,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22888,17317,19203],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[22889,17886,19204],"acf":{"announce":"Julen has agreed to become the Hammers manager after the end of the season.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482778,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482776\/revisions\/482778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482776"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482776"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}