“And it is suggested that some differences of opinion between Steidten and David Moyes could see the recruitment chief take up Liverpool’s offer.”
A further concern for the Hammers is the fact the Reds are said to be lining up Xabi Alonso as Jurgen Klopp’s replacements. Alonso is the man Steidten played a key role in appointing at Bayer Leverkusen.
Hammers News has reached out to the most senior contact inside the club over the claims.
And the top West Ham source has issued a worrying response to the Steidten Liverpool links.
“You should be asking Liverpool not me,” the source told Hammers News when asked whether the Reds want Steidten.
When pressed on whether West Ham would be powerless to stop Steidten leaving for Liverpool should he wish to do so, the source told us: “It’s not easy.”
It seems like quite a horror show going at the boardroom. It has been 6 months since Jorg joined and it has been about 18 months since Edwards left the club. Jorg’s arrival bought 6 months of time for the boardroom.
I cannot understand the twiddling of thumbs over a permanent appointment for that 6 months though…
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We don’t know he was even asked, it could just be rumours by click bait ‘journalists’.
I would be surprised if he did come back because he has only just set up his own business and would probably want to focus on that and avoid any complications from being overly involved at any one club.
Furthermore, I’m not sure what he would be expected to do. We already have a structure in place that presumably needs just a few appointments making - and I’m willing to believe that the DoFs at Brentford, Brighton and West Ham are on that list as they have similar set ups to us in that they are very data focused.
last summer Moyes and Steidten did have differences in opinion as Moyes wanted a number of English cloggers signing, so given that and the link to Xabi, I could see something happening. It is interesting that previously we have usually been linked to DoFs in Germany or France, yet now all UK based.