Graham Potter appointed West Ham United Head Coach

The brand new Head Coach mentioned: “I’m delighted to be right here. It was essential to me that I waited till a job got here alongside that I felt was proper for me, and equally that I used to be the appropriate match for the Membership I’m becoming a member of. That’s the feeling I’ve with West Ham United.

“My conversations with the Chairman and the Board have been very optimistic and constructive, we share the identical values of exhausting work and excessive vitality to create the stable foundations that may produce success, and we’re on the identical wavelength when it comes to what is required within the short-term after which how we need to transfer the Membership ahead within the medium to long run.

“West Ham United is a large Membership, on the coronary heart of London, with an incredible fanbase and nice help all around the globe. I noticed the scenes that adopted their Europa Convention League victory in 2023 and it was clear that it is a Membership with every part in place to change into persistently profitable, each on and off the pitch.

“The Membership have made numerous good progress in recent times and ensured there are some very robust foundations in place to construct on. You don’t win a European trophy by fluke – there needs to be bedrock at a soccer membership for that to occur, and the problem now’s to take that on and construct the following steps, to develop a group and a Membership that the supporters may be happy with.”