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Julen Lopetegui was always going to find himself under pressure from the start at West Ham but there is a clear agenda post David Moyes. There has been no red carpet treatment for Julen Lopetegui at West Ham after replacing David Moyes. It is fair to say a large section of West Ham fans were unconvinced when it became clear Lopetegui was the man chosen to succeed Moyes. Opinion seems to have been coloured by scathing assessment of the Lopetegui appointment in the wider football press. Lopetegui’s fellow Spaniard, journalist Guillem Balague, was pretty much a lone voice trying to justify the ne…