So Tim Stiedten has finally broken his silence on the new West Ham United manager Julen Lopetegui.
Tim Steidten apparently played a key role in bringing Julen Lopetegui to West Ham to replace David Moyes, and the pair have already held numerous transfer meetings.
The 57-year-old former Wolves, Sevilla, Porto, Real Madrid and Spain boss is expected to bring a far more easy-on-the-eye playing style to the Hammers.
Moyes’s football became turgid, once-paced and devoid of any kind of intensity during his final four months in charge at the London Stadium.
It was clearly time for a change, and now we can all look forward to a very bright future indeed under Lopetegui’s leadership.
West Ham are believed to be heading down a new, more continental way of working, whereby Steidten and his team of analysts and scouts will select the new signings to suit the playing style Lopetegui wants to implement.
That style is in stark contrast to the way that Moyes worked at the club. And now Steidten has finally broken his silence after Lopetegui was officially named as the new Hammers Head Coach…
Tim Steidten finally breaks silence on Julen Lopetegui appointment
Cracks began to really appear in the Moyes / Steidten relationship at the start of this month, when the German was banned from entering the training ground for the final three games of the season.
Moyes felt that there was a conflict of interest for Steidten, given the fact that he was searching for the Scot’s replacement.
That’s all done now though, and with Moyes gone, Lopetegui’s reign at the London Stadium officially begins today.
Steidten sat down to speak to WHUFC.com at the Spaniard’s official unveiling, and dropped a clear dig at the Spaniard’s predecessor…
Steidten said, “We are very pleased to welcome Julen and his staff to our Club. He was a stand-out candidate to become our Head Coach and I am personally delighted that we have chosen to work together. His career shows that, wherever he has coached, he has improved players and teams, and we are looking forward to seeing him work with our squad.”
Then the German opened up on the new and more modern approach West Ham will be taking, “Julen lives and breathes football. He thinks deeply about the game, he is tactically astute and he has shown he can adapt to work in different leagues, in different countries, with national teams, and in each situation he has shown his outstanding qualities. Julen is highly experienced in the way we will now work at West Ham United and I am looking forward to working with him to grow a successful future for the Club.”
The line that jumped out at me was, “Julen is highly experienced in the way we will now work at West Ham United.”
Moyes clearly wasn’t well-versed in working under a Director of Football, and I think the main reason he left the club was because he was not willing to coach players who he perhaps didn’t even want to sign.
I guess that’s why Lopetegui is the first man in our 129-year history to be given the ‘head coach’ title rather than ‘manager’.
Steidten is clearly delighted to have Lopetegui on board at West Ham. Let’s just hope that the two work in harmony together, and bring some real success to the East End of London.
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