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Gold proud of home grown player stats

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Oxford-604905West Ham Chairman David Gold is proud of the amount of time home-grown Academy players have played this season.

Gold tweeted to his followers “West Ham have used home-grown Academy players for 2629 minutes this season. Five teams have none. Man. City are on 166 minutes. dg”

Reece Oxford has made three appearances with 132 minutes on the pitch in the Premier League and Josh Cullen one appearance and one minute.

The majority of West Ham home-grown Academy players turning out for the West Ham first team came in our Europa League games against FC Lusitans, Birkirkara FC and Astra Giurgiu.

Elliot Lee, Josh Cullen, Diego Poyet, Martin Samuelsen, Reece Burke, Reece Oxford, Kyle Knoyle, Jordan Brown, Alex Pike, Doneil Henry and Lewis Page all took an active part in our European adventure.

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