All Change Again On The Coaching Front

After Kyle Macaulay left West Ham United on Thursday, the club announced today that Nuno Espírito Santo has finally put his new backroom staff in place, as Mark Robson, Steve Potts, Gerard Prenderville and Billy Lepine have all been promoted from their previous roles with the club’s Development Squad.

The quartet have helped out since the new Head-Coach was appointed back on 27 September, as he didn’t have much time to prepare the team for their Premier League game against Everton at The Hill Dickinson Stadium just two days later.

Prior to the two recent managerial changes, a number of the first-team coaches that David Moyes appointed ended their spells in Stratford early, as both Stuart Pearce and Mark Warburton left their posts, leaving the Scotsman to appoint three new faces to the position in three of his four seasons during his second stint in charge of the Hammers.

Macaulay was the last of Graham Potter’s staff to leave the club after all of the others followed the former Swansea City and Chelsea Head-Coach through the exit door before his successor was confirmed just a matter of hours later.

The Portuguese had stated during his first news conference back on 2 October that he would wait until the international break to finalise his backroom staff and many people thought that he would have returned to his former club Nottingham Forest to bring a number of his own staff across to East London but he has decided instead to keep faith with those who assisted him during those road trips to both Everton and Arsenal.