West Ham United have confirmed Julen Lopetegui as the club’s new head coach.

West Ham announced earlier this month that David Moyes would leave the club when his current contract expires.

The Athletic reported on May 6 that West Ham had agreed terms with Lopetegui to take over and the Spaniard will begin work on July 1.

Lopetegui said: “I feel very happy, first of all, to be able to be part of the future of this big club. We will try to put our stamp on the club.

“I feel that we have a fantastic platform. I think the last few years have been very good years to have this base, of course, but my ambition as a coach is always to be better and better, to achieve more and bigger aims and to encourage and improve the players, the team, and to compete because football is about this – to compete. We are very ambitious about this.

“I am where I want to be. I am here because I want to be here and for us it was a fantastic day when we closed our agreement here because our commitment is 100 per cent to be here. We had other opportunities but I am very happy that West Ham chose me because I chose West Ham too, so we are really happy about this.”

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