Comfortably beaten 4-1 on Wednesday night, Slaven Bilic and his West Ham side are having an extremely tough start to the season.
Sixteenth in the Premier League and now out of the EFL Cup, the Croatian manager’s future at the club is slowly starting to look shorter and shorter as the weeks go by, with last season’s successes clearly still fresh in the mind of those in charge at the London club.
TZ reported on Wednesday that Bilic is top of the list to replace the current interim side Daniel Bierofka in the upcoming winter break, ahead of other reputable names such as Roberto Di Matteo and Avram Grant.
The newspaper claim that Bilic, who speaks German well following his three years as a player for Karlsruher between 1993 and 1996, and contact has already been made.
TSV 1860 München’s chairman, Hasan Abdullah Ismaik, who owns 60% of the club, is said to be a big fan of the West Ham manager, and has already been in touch ‘for a long time’, and isn’t hiding that Bilic is his ‘favourite’ candidate for the post.
Still, considering Di Matteo and Grant are currently without jobs, a move for them would be far more hassle free.
That is, of course, unless West Ham are happy to see Bilic go.
