Top award for young Declan

Declan Rice has won the Premier League 2 Player of the Month for October.

West Ham United’s Declan Rice has won the Premier League 2 Player of the Month for October.
The brilliant teenager won the award not only for his performances representing the Hammers’ under-23s, but for his display against Tottenham Hotspur in the Carabao Cup as well as one appearance in October the Premier League, against Crystal Palace.

It’s a timely hint to David Moyes that this is a young man who has to seriously enter his calculations for regular first team football.

On receiving the award Dec said: ““I’ve been playing well recently and played well last season – I thought I was unlucky not to win it then! But I’m happy to pick up for this month, October.

“I owe the coaches massively, I owe Slaven [Bilic] obviously for giving me that game time against Tottenham – that was a big part of me winning this award. But Terry [Westley] and Liam [Manning] have been great as well. When I’ve gone back down to play with them, they haven’t changed one bit and credit to them for that.”

Proud Academy boss Westley added: “We are all very proud of the young man. He has been quite outstanding in his level of performance and has a tremendous future in the game.”