It is open season now on ‘new West Ham United Coach ‘ rumours. Lopetegui is in trouble, the results are poor, with £140 million spent the board have every right to expect the Irons to be sitting higher in the league: If the team loses against Everton on Saturday the Toffees (who were considered a basket case) will leapfrog West Ham who will descend to within about four points of the relegation zone.
The warning signs are there.
However seeing some of the names being banded about, you’d think the job at West Ham was all things to all coaches. This morning it is Brendan Rodgers being tipped by Darren Bent on TalkSport as ‘The One’ to lead West Ham.
This is Brendan Rodgers whose Celtic team is top of the SPL and playing Champions League football. What would West Ham offer to pull him away from that kind of success, to a club deep in crisis, in a rented stadium hated by most fans, with a divided board of Directors and zero chance of spending any money.
Add the Paquetá hearing with lifetime ban threatened and I’d say any coach who leaves work to come to West Ham would have to be pretty undervalued in his present role: Rodgers I’m sure is on a decent payment and probably doesn’t need the aggravation of coming to ‘problem’ club West Ham.
Any coach who is managing a team with European football this season would, to my mind fit into the same category.
So when, for instance, I read today of Inter Milan coach Simeone Inzaghi being on the radar – again, the same applies. Just what would be in it for him? Inter Milan or West Ham United. No European football, 15th or lower in the Premier League, no transfer budget. Best player possibly banned for life, next best one maybe want-away in January.
A bit of a no-brainer. Even by football standards.
