West Ham United‘s academy players have been making their mark on the international stage. Several young talents have represented their countries in recent matches, showcasing their skills and potential.
Gabriel Caliste made his senior debut for Mauritius, impressing with his energy and defensive contributions. His performance helped Mauritius secure a 0-0 draw against India in the Inter-Continental Cup.
West Ham United’s academy players Lanre Awesu, Chinaza Nwosu, and Andre Dike were all part of England’s U17 squad that defeated Mexico 5-0. Awesu kept a clean sheet, while Nwosu and Dike contributed to the victory. Dike scored a goal from a penalty, continuing his impressive form from previous appearances.
Finlay Herrick and Josh Ajala were part of England’s U19 squad that drew 2-2 with Italy. Lewis Orford, who recently extended his contract with West Ham United, was forced to withdraw from the squad due to injury. Airidas Golambeckis watched on from the bench in England U18s’ opening game.
Our academy players are making significant contributions to their national teams, their performances demonstrate the club’s commitment to developing young talent. With continued hard work and development, these players have the potential to make a significant impact at West Ham in the future.
I’m reading elsewhere that we are lining up John Egan as a back up centre half. If we have such great young talents coming through, why are we wasting everybody’s time signing players whose careers, frankly, are on the downhill run.
Useful in cup games?
Just stop it.
It is hard enough moving on the players who have no future at the club as it is. And most of them will be back at the conclusion their loan deals.
Do other ‘big clubs’ recruit in similar ways? I doubt it.
And we want to consider ourselves ‘massive.’
Pay Egan his cab fare, give him a ball and a T shirt, and send him down the road to Leyton Orient where he might make a real difference.
I want to see a steady flow of opportunities for our young talent (like the young men mentioned in this article) as part of the West Ham culture, part of what we do to develop talent and keep the talent at our club (and not Manchester City).
I get your point, but there are very few academy players that break through in PL for any club each season. Bearing in mind these are U18s, I doubt you will see many of those getting minutes in PL this season
Agreed. You don’t see the likes of the top clubs being fearful of introducing youngsters, appropriately and mindfully. When we have done it in the past it’s been wholesale changes and feeding them to the dogs effectively, but that was under different managers and different times.
Can’t see the likes of a Man City, Arsenal or Liverpool taking on the likes of Egan can you? No disrespect to him, I’m sure he’s an honest pro, but I’d hoped we’d moved on from things like this.
I keep hearing about all this young talent we have but who has actually made it through to the first team in recent years.I can only think of Declan Rice?
I hear Egan will be a years contract, on £30k a week, seeing as our players left it so late to leave we didn’t have time to sign anyone, so this makes some sense, if we do pick up an injury we have some back up, and the kids can learn from our better defenders
No mention of Callum Marshall getting another full cap for Northern Ireland at the tender age of 19?