Graham Potter has been hired by Sweden just weeks after his sacking by West Ham

West Ham will not receive any financial benefit from Sweden’s surprise appointment of Graham Potter, who is still set to bank around £5m in compensation after being sacked by the struggling Hammers last month.

Most Premier League clubs only pay compensation – in the form of monthly salary payments – to sacked managers until they get another job, but Potter’s wages in Sweden, where he launched his coaching career, will be insufficient to override his existing entitlement.

The 50-year-old Englishman has been given a short-term deal by the Swedish FA covering next month’s World Cup qualifiers against Switzerland and Slovenia, but will be handed an automatic extension if he succeeds in securing World Cup qualif

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