West Ham will review Julen Lopetegui’s position if they lose at home to Everton on Saturday. Although the hope is that the manager will turn the situation around, he is under increasing pressure after a poor start and another setback would leave him hanging by a thread.
There have been mixed signals over Lopetegui’s immediate future and the sense at the start of this week was that the Everton game was not viewed as make or break. David Sullivan, West Ham’s majority shareholder, has a history of sticking by his managers. But the club are hugely alarmed to be only six points above the bottom three after last weekend’s defeat by Nottingham Forest. At the minimum it is believed that losing again would prompt West Ham to use the international break to line up short- and long-term candidates to take over.
