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Over to you then, Graham Potter. The former Chelsea and Brighton manager will replace Julen Lopetegui as West Ham manager after the club decided to sack the Spaniard halfway through the season - a frank admission that they hired the wrong man to replace David Moyes in the summer.

They wanted attractive football and good results. They got neither. Potter may well be an upgrade on Lopetegui, may well be more suited to the attractive, passing football that West Ham and their fans so craved after Moyes but it will take more than just a better man in the dugout to get the club where it wants to be.