Steidten’s departure was inevitable when the new Potter manager confirmed that Macaulay had arrived as a recruitment manager.
President David Sullivan put himself on the side of Steidten in his icy relationship with former Moyes manager, withdrawing a contract offer to the Scottish, who left the London stadium at the end of last season.
The idea was to let Steidten, who was named in Germany with Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen, supervises a revolution in the way West Ham played, while at the same time he maintained a challenge for European qualification after three successive seasons in UEFA competitions.
But Lopetegui’s appointment as a replacement for Moyes lifted an eyebrow and, while, on paper, a £ 100 million recruitment campaign looked quite well, in the field it was shown that it lacked speed and quality.
Steidten has been very criticized for spending £ 27 million in the 31 -year -old striker prone to injuries, Niclas Fullkrug, who has scored two goals in 11 appearances, only five of which were beginnings. The German International is currently off for a prolonged period with an injury to the hamstrings.
In early December, it was a matter of when, not yes, Lopetegui was going to be fired. Like Moyes, the former head of Spain stopped dealing with Steidten, whose position became unsustainable once Potter was installed.