West Ham have appointed former Nottingham Forest supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo as head coach after sacking Graham Potter.
Nuno, 51, has signed a three-year contract with the Hammers and can take cost of his first match on Monday away at Everton within the Premier League.
Potter was dismissed on Saturday morning after solely eight months in cost, with the membership nineteenth within the desk.
Nuno joins West Ham after being sacked on 9 September by Forest, who he guided to seventh within the Premier League final season – their highest end since 1994-95.
“I’m more than happy to be right here and really proud to be representing West Ham United,” he mentioned.
“My goal is to work exhausting to get the perfect from the workforce and make sure that we’re as aggressive as we presumably could be. The work has already began and I’m trying ahead to the problem that’s forward.”
Nuno joins West Ham shortly after a 21-month stint on the Metropolis Floor, the place he was sacked solely three video games into this season.
He took his first coaching session in east London on Saturday afternoon earlier than the membership’s match at Everton on Monday.
West Ham mentioned Nuno might be assisted within the interim by academy coaches Mark Robson, Steve Potts, Gerard Prenderville and Billy Lepine, with an additional announcement on his teaching and backroom workers to be made sooner or later.
The Hammers took solely three factors from their opening 5 league video games this season beneath Potter.
After dismissing the 50-year-old, West Ham mentioned they believed “a change is important with a view to assist enhance the workforce’s place within the Premier League as quickly as doable”.
They added: “Outcomes and performances over the course of the second half of final season and the beginning of the 2025-26 season haven’t matched expectations.”
In an announcement by way of the League Managers Affiliation, Potter mentioned: “I’m extremely upset to be leaving West Ham, significantly with out with the ability to obtain what we got down to obtain firstly of our journey in east London.
“I do, nonetheless, totally acknowledge that the outcomes have simply not been adequate thus far.”
