Nuno Espirito Santo to stay as West Ham head coach after relegation | OneFootball

West Ham have confirmed Nuno Espirito Santo will remain head coach despite Premier League relegation. The club said in a statement that the decision followed positive talks this week.

Meetings to decide his future were held on Monday, a day after a 3-0 win over Leeds that was not enough to prevent the drop. He had widely been expected to leave.

Nuno took charge on September 27, the day Graham Potter was sacked, with the team 19th. He won only two of his first 16 league games, finishing with a 2-1 home defeat to Nottingham Forest in January that left West Ham seven points adrift.

From January to April results surged, with 22 points taken from 13 matches to haul the side out of trouble. A 4-0 victory over Wolves on April 10 lifted them out of the bottom three for the first time since December.

May brought successive losses to Brentford, Arsenal and Newcastle, leaving three defeats in their final four and allowing Tottenham to stay up at their expense. Victory on the final day came too late.

Nuno is highly motivated to target an immediate return to the top flight next season, with promotion the stated goal. West Ham collected 25 points from their last 17 league games, a 1.47 points-per-game rate that would equate to seventh across a full season, and he previously won the Championship with Wolves in 2017/18 with 99 points.

Source: Nottingham Post