It’s a tough existence. Being out on loan whilst your academy colleagues are making all of the headlines, grabbing starting places in West Ham’s senior team and impressing everyone. But from the sound of it, West Ham have another ‘future starlet’ ( for I know how much some of you love that expression!) in development at third-tier Huddersfield Town right now.
Callum Marshall, just twenty years old, on a season-long loan away from London with the Terriers, scored again at the weekend to take his season’s tally to ten goals.
Earning an impressive 8/10 from the hyper critical yorkshirepost.co.uk, Marshall was involved with all of the first three of Huddersfield’s five goals in their 5-1 defeat of Crawley Town.
Stuart Rayner, writing for the Yorkshire Post commented – “Callum Marshall – gifted his goal but he certainly deserved it for the excellent performance he put in 8″
Marshall will be on view on the International stage on Friday night, having earned another call-up to the full Northern Ireland senior squad to take on Switzerland in a friendly, following by a trip to Stockholm to play Sweden next Tuesday. All brilliant experience for the young Hammer who, by his own admission, is bursting to make it into West Ham’s Premier League team.
Whilst he might have to follow Freddie Potts’ trajectory with perhaps a loan move to the championship beckoning next season, Marshall is earning plaudits from his coach at Huddersfield and could be just a season away from the big time: Exciting for him and for us to watch the young striker try and make the hardest jump up in quality to – hopefully – earn his breakthrough. Boy do West Ham need him!