Hammers bring the squad age level down

West Ham are bringing down the generation gap in their squad as younger players emerge and new signings arrive.

Casting my mind back to the Allardyce and early Bilic days I recall working out the average age of our squad at around 29 or 30.

But thankfully with the likes of Issa Diop, Declan Rice and  Pablo Fornals taking their place in the squad the average age of the squad has fallen.

We looked at the ages of 16 players who are likely to become the regular squad  and despite the presence of 30 plus year olds like Fabiansi, Arnautovic and Snodgrass the signs are good that the club is now starting to  operate within  more youthful age parameters.

Those we looked at were Fabianski, Fredericks, Cresswell, Balbuena, Diop, Rice, Anderson, Lanzini, Farnals, Snodgrass, Noble, Wilshere, Antonio, Yarmolenko, Masuaku and Arnautovic.

And over that 16 the average age level of the squad works out at an encouraging 27 years old.

COYI