West Ham confirm David Moyes replacement as manager

West Ham United have confirmed the arrival of Julen Lopetegui to replace the departing David Moyes as manager.

Moyes' exit was confirmed by the Hammers before the end of the season and they quickly moved to agree terms with former Wolves boss Lopetegui, who kept the Wanderers up in the 2022/23 campaign before departing.

The 57-year-old has agreed a two-year contract with the option for a third.

He told the club's website: "I feel very happy, first of all, to be able to be part of the future of this big club. We will try to put our stamp on the club.

"I feel that we have a fantastic platform. I think the last few years have been very good years to have this base, of course, but my ambition as a coach is always to be better and better, to achieve more and bigger aims and to encourage and improve the players, the team, and to compete because football is about this – to compete. We are very ambitious about this.

"I am where I want to be. I am here because I want to be here and for us it was a fantastic day when we closed our agreement here because we our commitment is 100 per cent to be here. We had other opportunities but I am very happy that West Ham chose me because I chose West Ham too, so we are really happy about this.

"We came here with the idea and the thought to make a big, big noise. That's why we came here, and we are excited by this challenge. Of course, we are going to do our best to help the club and the team to achieve to achieve the best level and to achieve our aims. I assure the fans that they are going to be key in all our achievements."

Lopetegui had a failed spell in charge of Real Madrid in 2018 after leaving the Spain national team job but rebuilt his image with Sevilla, leading them to the 2019/20 Europa League.

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