Slaven Bilic is ready willing and eager to blood the club’s youngsters.

West Ham has been regularly accused of not giving the academy products a chance but the manager has made it clear he is ready to do so.

He said: “Josh Cullen had a fantastic season at Bradford. Reece Burke went to Wigan but unfortunately he got injured.

“Unfortunately, Reece Oxford, who is a fantastic talent, it was our aim for him to go on loan in the Championship and he went to Reading but unfortunately he didn’t play enough.

“On top of that we have two fantastic talents who are younger than them in Domingos Quina and Declan Rice, who are doing really good.

“For me, they all have a future, although we have three centre-backs, so it’s going to be hard for them all to knock on the door and play for West Ham very, very soon.

“It’s up to them. They’ve been training with us and now it’s about time for them to play.”