{"id":825171,"date":"2025-02-07T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/official-graham-potter-returns-to-coaching-takes-up-west-ham-job\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:11:54","slug":"official-graham-potter-returns-to-coaching-takes-up-west-ham-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/official-graham-potter-returns-to-coaching-takes-up-west-ham-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Graham Potter returns to coaching, takes up West Ham job"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-685140\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blueprint.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250109-WA0000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"735\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blueprint.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250109-WA0000-735x400.jpg\" alt decoding=\"async\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>English Premier League club, West Ham, has confirmed the appointment of former Chelsea boss, Graham Potter as its new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest Ham United is delighted to welcome Graham Potter as the club\u2019s new head coach. The 49-year-old joins the Hammers on a two-and-a-half-year contract and will take charge of his new team for the first time when the Irons travel to Aston Villa in the FA Cup third round on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA highly-respected and sought-after coach, Potter has been awaiting the right opportunity after leaving his last role at Chelsea in April 2023 and was the Board\u2019s unanimous choice to take the club forward in line with its objectives and ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotter, whose progressive style and flexible tactical approach previously impressed at Swedish club \u00d6stersund, Swansea City and Brighton &#038; Hove Albion, has a passion for a return to Premier League management and is relishing the opportunity to work with West Ham United\u2019s talented squad of international players,\u201d the club statement read on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueprint.ng\/official-graham-potter-returns-to-coaching-takes-up-west-ham-job\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Premier League club, West Ham, has confirmed the appointment of former Chelsea boss, Graham Potter as its new head coach. \u201cWest Ham United is delighted to welcome Graham Potter as the club\u2019s new head coach. The 49-year-old joins the Hammers on a two-and-a-half-year contract and will take charge of his new team for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":825172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4237,136],"tags":[6104,5237],"class_list":{"0":"post-825171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-graham","8":"category-official","9":"tag-graham","10":"tag-official"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}