West Ham United are reportedly making contingency plans should the club lose to Swansea City this weekend.
West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic
According to The Telegraph, West Ham United are making plans to replace Slaven Bilic should the club lose to Swansea City in the Premier League this weekend.
The Hammers lost 3-0 at Arsenal on Wednesday evening, meaning it’s now five defeats in a row for Bilic, and just two points from the last seven games.
The terrible run of form has piled the pressure back on manager Bilic, with West Ham now just five points clear of the relegation zone with just seven games to play.
This weekend, West Ham host Swansea City at the London Stadium, and desperately need a result to drag themselves away from the bottom three, with a defeat to the Swans – who lie 18th in the Premier League – a nightmare scenario for club and manager.
The Telegraph report that, should West Ham lose this weekend, then the club are set to make a short-term appointment until the end of the season, giving Bilic his marching orders.
It’s stated that West Ham wouldn’t look internally for Bilic’s short-term replacement, with the likes of Julian Dicks, Nikola Jurcevic and Edin Terzic not under consider consideration – but the club appear to have found their No. 1 target for the long term.
Huddersfield Town manager David Wagner
The report claims that, should they need a manager at the end of the season, West Ham are interested in landing Huddersfield Town boss David Wagner, who has worked wonders with the Terriers this season.
Wagner, who worked with Jurgen Klopp at Borussia Dortmund and was the Liverpool manager’s best man at his wedding, has made a name for himself away from Klopp with Huddersfield, taking the Terriers to third place in the Championship table with an exciting brand of football.
West Ham would surely only be able to prise Wagner away if Huddersfield miss out on promotion, and it’s a situation that the Hammers board will be keeping an eye on, with Bilic facing a crucial weekend.
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