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Netherlands have a named a squad with a clear focus on youth

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Mar-2021

Nepal will host Netherlands and Malaysia for a triangular T20I series, scheduled for April 17 to 24. The three teams will play each other twice, before the top two meet in the final. All games are going to be hosted at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur.A statement issued by the Dutch cricket federation, the KNCB, said the decision to give the series the all-clear was taken “following the reduction in Covid cases and resumption of domestic competitions since December 2020” in Nepal. The players and match officials will remain in a bio-secure bubble, the statement added. The Malaysian Cricket Association (MCA), said in a statement of its own that its squad “will be travelling in compliance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) required in both Nepal and Malaysia”.Related

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“There will be mandatory PCR testing for all players and officials, and all matches will be played under strict compliance of the SOP that is in place,” the MCA gave out.Ryan Campbell, Netherlands’ coach, was quoted in the statement as saying: “After not playing since November 2019, I am overjoyed at the announcement [of the series]. The boys have worked so hard for over a year with so much uncertainty on when our next match will be.”Mahinda Vallipuram, president of MCA, said: “It is indeed very pleasing to see the revival of international cricket, after a year-long drought in international tournaments. The last international match in which our team played was in 2020 between the end of February and early March, at the T20I ACC Eastern Region in Thailand. This [tri-series] is therefore a morale booster for our national team.”Netherlands named a somewhat different-looking squad for the tournament, and Campbell explained that it had been selected with a focus on youth, and players who had signed up to play county cricket were not included.Netherlands squad

Pieter Seelaar, Tobias Visée, Ben Cooper, Max O’Dowd, Bas de Leede, Vikramjit Singh, Scott Edwards, Aryan Dutt, Philippe Boissevain, Paul van Meekeren, Vivian Kingma, Tonny Staal, Sebastiaan Braat, Julian de Mey.

“After such a long break between international fixtures, the squad selected represents the future of Dutch cricket,” Campbell said. “I am extremely happy to announce Aryan Dutt (17), our U-19 allrounder, will join Vikram [Vikramjit] Singh (18) as our two youngest tourists. These two are exciting prospects.”Aryan can bowl offspin, medium-pace, as well as being a really special batting prospect and we all have already seen what talent Vikram has. Those two will also be joined by our very talented youngsters Bas de Leede and Philippe Boissevain.”With the decision made not to take any of our County players, this has given us an opportunity to re-introduce Viv [Vivian] Kingma and Sebastiaan Braat into our bowling stocks and we will be looking to see how they adapt to subcontinent conditions.”Vikramjit Singh had topped the batting chart for Netherlands at the ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier Europe Region tournament in 2019, with 304 runs at 60.80, including a hundred and two fifties in five innings.The squad wasn’t all about new faces, though, as familiar names like Pieter Seelaar, the captain, Ben Cooper, Max O’Dowd and Paul van Meekeren were a part of it.

تعرض محمود جهاد لاعب فريق الكرة بنادي الزمالك للإصابة خلال مباراة اليوم أمام الإسماعيلي والتي تجمع بينهما ضمن منافسات الدوري المصري.

ويلتقي الزمالك مع الإسماعيلي على أرضية استاد السلام، ضمن في الجولة 12 من الدوري المصري.

وكان مصطفى شلبي قد سجل هدف الزمالك الأول في الدقيقة 18 من عمر اللقاء، بعد تلقيه تمريرة عرضية من محمد السيد زميله بالقلعة البيضاء.

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وسقط محمود جهاد على أرض الملعب بشكل مفاجئ، وحاول اللاعب الضغط على نفسه واستكمال المباراة إلا أنه لم يستطع ليتم استبداله.

وقرر جروس المدير الفني للزمالك الدفع بـ محمود بنتايج لاعب الفريق بدلًا من محمود جهاد في الدقيقة 80 من عمر اللقاء. إصابة محمود جهاد في مباراة الزمالك والإسماعيلي

Regis Le Bris will be raring to go ahead of this weekend's next set of Championship fixtures, hopeful that his Sunderland side can make it four wins in a row without tasting defeat when travelling down to Portsmouth.

Before that, however, the Black Cats have the frantic occasion of transfer deadline day to deal with, as many new targets now begin to be linked with the early second-tier pace-setters.

It has been well publicised this hectic transfer window the twists and turns that have come from Alexandre Mendy's uncertain future at SM Caen and Sunderland's reported admiration, but any last gasp deal for the Ligue 2 sharpshooter looks to be very much dead in the water now.

Instead, the promotion hopefuls have set their sights on other targets in the centre-forward spot, including this bright attacker from the Premier League.

Sunderland's search for a striker

As per a report by Sunderland Nation, Le Bris' men are now working on a potential loan swoop involving Chelsea youngster David Datro Fofana, in a bid to bolster their striker spots before the close of the window later on today.

It is reported that Chelsea are keen to offload Fofana to try and trim down their over-populated squad, with Sunderland keen on adding the Ivorian to their ranks as a result, after the 21-year-old showed signs of his potential out on loan with Burnley last campaign.

Displaying flashes of his brilliance for the Clarets, even as they stared relegation in the face, Fofana could be able to take to the demands of the Championship well.

He might well even be seen as an upgrade on Mendy, with the Caen man nine years older than his counterpart, on top of only ever playing in his native France and never in the hustle and bustle of the English game.

What Fofana could offer Sunderland

The 21-year-old would only make 15 appearances last season for Vincent Kompany's men in the Premier League, but he will largely be held in high esteem by those with connections to Turf Moor based on what he gave to the Clarets even in those fleeting moments.

Fofana would bag four strikes in total in league action, alongside picking up a further assist, as the ex-Burnley number 23 then returned back to Stamford Bridge somewhat proud of his efforts in Lancashire.

Fofana's career goalscoring record

Club played for

Games played

Goals scored

Assists

Burnley

15

4

1

Chelsea

4

0

0

Union Berlin

17

2

1

Molde FK

65

24

10

Sourced by Transfermarkt

Chelsea didn't just splash the cash to acquire Fofana last year for a fee around £10m on a whim, however, with the 21-year-old a revelation at his former employers in Molde FK, with a mightily impressive 34 goal contributions managed from just 65 games in Norway.

Yet, the bumper move to West London just hasn't gone to plan for Fofana so far, with Le Bris perhaps the best manager to get more out of the £30k-per-week youngster now – as per Capology – having already managed to get two goals out of Eliezer Mayenda this fresh Championship campaign, after he fired blanks under previous Black Cats bosses.

Labelled as being an "outstanding" talent by now ex-Clarets manager Kompany after scoring this screamer versus West Ham United last campaign, this also feels like a purchase that suits the Sunderland ethos of developing young and hungry gems more so than forking out wads of cash to sign Mendy.

The 31-year-old does boast an unbelievable goal return of 101 goals from 291 professional appearances, but Sunderland are now going full steam ahead to find a striker away from their previous interest in the Caen man, as a move for Fofana potentially goes down to the wire.

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Twin hundreds for Hameed as Nottinghamshire save the game in glorious fashion

Paul Edwards25-Apr-2021

Ed Barnard bowls to Ben Slater. The match in which they are playing will soon be drawn as firmly as Excalibur was fixed in the stone. Yet the contest will soon be of particular interest to statisticians, for all three innings already boast century opening partnerships and Haseeb Hameed will make two hundreds in a game for the second time in his young career.Hameed and Slater, another centurion, will put on an unbroken 236, thus breaking Nottinghamshire’s first-wicket record against Worcestershire, the now-expunged mark of 220 having been set by George Gunn and ‘Dodger’ Whysall in 1924. But the passage of nearly a century between events is most fitting. No wicket will fall for over a day at New Road and in his two innings Hameed will bat 13 hours 41 minutes and face a total of 635 balls. The latter will set a new record for County Championship matches.In other worlds brilliant men and women are developing advanced vaccines and wise leaders are reaching tentative agreements about climate change.But this afternoon, in crystal sunlight at New Road, Ed Barnard bowls to Ben Slater and number crunchers move into helpful overdrive about a deeply drawn cricket match. What can it matter?For the answer to that question one must consider, as others have done, the wider impact of the past year. Recreation – in part, the act of re-creating valuable experience – has been shown to have a value beyond even our previous conception of that myriad. It has bound us together in the darkest times. Unable to enjoy it in conventional fashion, we have experienced it remotely, thus sustaining the rich sense of community upon which so much else, not least mental health, depends.And community is what we’re preserving in these spectator-free weeks. The doors will be closed for a few weeks yet but the county clubs are available to their supporters in every other way. My colleague David Hopps, no one-eyed optimist he, put it perfectly in a superbly balanced essay written for : “Community and heritage, though, is why county cricket matters… Discover it, nurture it, save it. It has never been more vital.”And county cricket still commands the loyalty of unsuspected thousands of supporters. The live streams and the websites have revealed that. Some Worcestershire loyalists and very many more Nottinghamshire ones would have paid double the usual entry price to watch Hameed and Slater become the first Trent Bridge openers since Tim Robinson and Matthew Dowman in 1995 to share century opening stands in each innings of a game.There is already speculation as to how big the crowds will be for four-day games when spectators are allowed in on May 20. Those that haven’t booked probably needn’t bother. After May 16 they can admit 895 spectators here; after June 21 there are hopes of full houses, maybe even for Championship games. Who’d have thought it?Related

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Today, though, neither the efforts of Joe Leach’s bowlers nor the occasional eccentricities of a fourth-day pitch were enough to bring Worcestershire a victory. One suspects the teams could have played another dozen hours and not produced a winner on a surface that always promised more help than it delivered. Six of the 12 sessions in this game were wicketless. Stump and bail flashed and flew… infrequently. Batters rarely departed, pensively or otherwise. So we were left to ponder Slater’s mercilessness when dealing with short balls and his powers of concentration in making a century on the ground where he revived his career with a 172 for Leicestershire less than a year ago. Loan spells are rarely so pivotal in a player’s career.As for Hameed, the mannerisms remain. Between each delivery there is still the farmer’s gentle amble to square leg with the bat balanced, scythe-like, on his shoulder. He is still occasionally inclined to play two shots to every ball, one real and one yet more perfect as the bowler returns to his mark. The trigger movements and technique have undergone small but significant modifications: the slightest of forward presses, for example. More notably, there is more intent to score by angled cuts to third man or glances to fine leg: they are his staple diet when his punches through midwicket or cover drives are not on offer. Most importantly of all, there is trustworthy judgement and a lovely greed for batting.”Just as we were about to follow-on Ben Duckett told me it was an opportunity to go out and get another century,” said Hameed. “Peter Moores said the same not long after but it’s a great leveller when you go out there and the scoreboard says “0”. Thankfully, though, I was able to start again and go through the processes again. It wasn’t overly difficult to focus again because I was disappointed I’d got out in the first innings and I was in the moment as soon as they asked us to go out there again.”And so two of these four days have been about a 24-year-old cricketer rebuilding his career with the sort of studious, attentive batting that some sceptics doubted they’d see again. That enriching sight has taken its place amid timeless pleasures. So much has changed on this ground but the essential aspect remains the same. A couple of diseased trees have had to be felled; nature does not exist to satisfy poets or painters. But the chestnut in front of the marquee remains and stood in young-leafed grace as Hameed and Slater extended their partnership into its fifth, sixth and seventh hours.And it mattered because county cricket is about the game and everything around the game. This week it has been about listening with agnostic piety to evensong in the cathedral on Wednesday evening, when the choristers gave us George Herbert’s “The Call” in the Vaughan Williams setting that was first performed at Worcester during the Three Choirs festival in 1911. It has been about peregrine falcons in the cathedral tower. It has been about Hameed embracing the rich talent he still possesses. It has been about the black pear tree and the damasked tulips in Cripplegate Park. It has been about chilly mornings on Bromwich Parade and gentle dusks with the Malverns fading from view. And it has been about Ed Barnard bowling to Ben Slater in crystal sunlight.

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O São Paulo empatou com o Desportivo Brasil na manhã desta quinta-feira (18), por 1 a 1, em Porto Feliz, pela ida das oitavas de final do Campeonato Paulista sub-20. O Tricolor saiu atrás do placar e empatou com Palmberg, já na etapa final.

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O primeiro tempo foi equilibrado. mas com o Desportivo Brasil criando melhores oportunidades. Aos 28 minutos, a equipe do interior abriu o placar, com Marcelo, após rápida jogada de ataque do Desportivo.O Tricolor também teve oportunidades, com Juan e Samuel, mas a bola foi para fora e o goleiro defendeu.

Já no segundo tempo, o São Paulo foi melhor, pressionou e conseguiu empatar aos 22 minutos.Pagé cruzou rasteiro e Palmberg apareceu para desviar e deixar tudo igual. No final do jogo, o Desportivo quase fez o segundo, mas o goleiro Felipe salvou, deixando o resultado empatado.

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Com o resultado, o Tricolor precisa apenas de uma vitória simples para garantir a classificação. Se a partida terminar empatada no tempo regulamentar, a disputa será nos pênaltis.

Antes de decidir a vaga no estadual, o São Paulo volta a campo no domingo, para enfrentar o Internacional, às 16h, no Beira-Rio, no primeiro jogo da final do Campeonato Brasileiro.

Walking in at No. 8 on Test debut, she made an unbeaten 80 to stall England’s push for victory

Valkerie Baynes19-Jun-2021Anyone looking at the scoreline alone might see nothing more than “just a draw” but this Test between England and India was full of twists and star turns on both sides of what proved to be an enthralling arm-wrestle well into the final evening session.The teams agreed to a draw at 6.13pm local time with India 344 for 8 in their second innings following on, a lead of 179 runs, after Sneh Rana and Taniya Bhatia had combined for an unbroken stand of 104.Sophie Ecclestone’s four wickets earlier in the day had England in prime position to push for victory before an eighth-wicket partnership worth 41 runs between Rana and Shikha Pandey had India clinging on to the prospect of a draw at tea.”Just a draw”. Try telling that to Rana, who on Test debut produced just the innings her side needed, reaching 80 not out off 154 balls to kill off any chance of the hosts sealing a result. Bhatia was unbeaten on 44 at stumps.With the pitch offering little to the seamers, it fell to Ecclestone to be the spearhead with Heather Knight chiming in with her part-time offspin. Ecclestone had already claimed 4 for 88 as India were bowled out for 231 in reply to England’s first-innings 396 for 9 declared.When she removed what appeared to be India’s greatest threat – the 17-year-old debutant Shafali Verma – it looked as though England were well on their way to ensuring the visitors couldn’t possibly salvage a draw.”Just a draw”. Try telling that to the bank of spectators – barely 200 of them – who had witnessed Katherine Brunt’s screamer to remove Verma off Ecclestone’s bowling, their collective groan when the big-screen replay switched to a graphic at the crucial moment making it sound like they were far greater in number.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Just like the few hundred others who had bothered to attend each of the previous three days, they had witnessed something truly impressive, not least the breath-taking talent of Verma in scoring 96 and 63 in two vital contributions.India’s spectacular first-innings collapse in which they lost seven wickets for 20 runs in 14.2 overs and in which Deepti Sharma was the only middle-order batter to pass 4 with her unbeaten 29, rammed home the importance of Verma’s wicket, or so it seemed.With Verma gone, however, Sharma and Punam Raut dug in with a 72-run partnership for the third wicket, Sharma falling on the last ball before lunch with India leading by just six runs.Until then, with England struggling to make inroads, the match looked like meandering towards a draw that would belie the many fascinating storylines from the match.”Just a draw”. Try telling that to Knight, who fell just five runs shy of a century in her 100th match as England captain; to Sophia Dunkley, who scored 74 not out as the first black woman to play Test cricket for England; to Verma who showed and delivered on great promise; or to Ecclestone who worked her guts out bowling 64 overs for eight wickets in the match. Not to mention Rana whose fortitude in sealing that draw was so important to India.When Ecclestone struck for a second time in the morning session, the prospect of a result loomed back into sight. Sharma, another debutant who had showed her stubbornness in facing 44 deliveries for a single run in her previous innings, raised a 157-ball fifty with a pull off Nat Sciver to deep backward square. But she fell for 54, inexplicably attempting to slog-sweep a full Ecclestone delivery, and bottom-edging onto her stumps.Sneh Rana came up with an extremely crucial fifty on debut•Getty Images

With India leading by just 10 runs, Ecclestone had Mithali Raj out cheaply for the second time in the match, beating the bat and taking the top of off-stump as Raj attempted to guide the ball towards backward point.And Ecclestone couldn’t keep out of the action when Raut, who had overturned an lbw decision on 17 with replays showing she had edged Brunt onto her pad, pulled a Sciver short ball straight down Ecclesteone’s throat at square leg to be out for 39. India had lost three wickets for four runs in the space of 6.4 overs.Instructed to play a holding role and not give away any runs to pave the way for Ecclestone to be the main wicket-taker, Sciver at one point had taken 1 for 1 from 10 overs, which included nine maidens, and she ended the innings with figures of 16-9-21-2.But it could be argued that England’s decision not to choose a second specialist spinner on a used pitch had proven costly. The loss of a large chunk of the third day to rain didn’t help their cause but ultimately their failure to take 20 wickets made the difference.Pooja Vastrakar, promoted from No. 10 to No. 7, hit Ecclestone for 12 off one over, piercing the leg side for four three times. But that was the total of her contribution after Knight deceived her with one that beat her full-blooded swing and clattered into the stumps.Ecclestone had Harmanpreet Kaur out trying to unleash a slog-sweep and sending a top edge high overhead, wicketkeeper Amy Jones waiting patiently below to take a simple catch.Even then India were seven wickets down and only led by 34 runs but when Sciver had Pandey caught down the leg side by Jones for 18, Rana and Bhatia simply set themselves about their task, to see their side safely to the close of a match that was anything but “just a draw”.

نجح فريق الزمالك في التقدم على نظيره فاركو خلال المواجهة التي تجمع بينهما حاليًا، ضمن منافسات الجولة الثالثة عشر من بطولة الدوري المصري الممتاز، في لقاء يُقام على ملعب الجيش ببرج العرب.

جاء هدف التقدم لصالح الزمالك في الدقيقة 40 من عمر الشوط الأول، بعدما أرسل أحمد سيد زيزو عرضية من الجبهة اليسرى، ارتطمت بالمدافع أحمد جمال لاعب فاركو، وتحولت بالخطأ إلى داخل الشباك، مانحة الأفضلية للفريق الأبيض.

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ودخل الزمالك المباراة وعينه على النقاط الثلاث لمواصلة الضغط على فرق المقدمة، حيث يحتل المركز الثالث برصيد 23 نقطة، بعد تحقيقه 7 انتصارات وتعادلين، وتلقيه 3 هزائم.

في المقابل، يأمل فاركو في العودة بنتيجة إيجابية، خاصة أنه يحتل المركز السابع في جدول الترتيب برصيد 18 نقطة، جمعها من 5 انتصارات و3 تعادلات، مقابل 4 هزائم. هدف الزمالك الأول في مرمى فاركو

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No Dia da Consciência Negra, o Fluminense anunciou o lançamento do primeiro episódio da web série “Herdeiros de Chico Guanabara”, que vai ao ar às 20h, na FluTV. Dividida em 12 capítulos, a produção pretende aprofundar a história do primeiro torcedor de futebol do Brasil, no início do século XX: Chico Guanabara.

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Os episódios serão lançados mensalmente, nos dias 20 de cada mês, até outubro de 2022. A história de Chico Guanabara nasceu em um contexto sócio-histórico em que o futebol lera um esporte frequentado pela elite do Rio de Janeiro. No entanto, Chico, negro, favelado e capoeirista, construiu o “modo de torcer” de maneira singular.

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Dessa forma, a série pretende navegar não só pela história do personagem, como por temáticas e nomes que fizeram a história do Fluminense.De Escurinho a Didi, de Cartola a Washington e Assis e de Jovelina Pérola Negra a Waldo. A produção também pretende discutir o racismo estrutural esuas implicações nos corpos negros, a Belle Époque e o uso do pó de arroz, a profissionalização do futebol brasileiro, entre outros temas importantes.

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Além disso, trará avilanização do Fluminense no contexto da “democracia racial”, a cultura popular e sua relação com Laranjeiras, as torcidas associativas e suas práticas de sociabilidade, os ídolos negros e, por fim, o Fluminense como time de todos e de todas.

Temáticas importantes que mostram que o futebol é muito que apenas um esporte e reflete aspectos da sociedade que necessitam ser discutidos diariamente em busca de um mundo mais justo e igualitário.

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Leeds United have come out the other side of a turbulent summer with a bit between their teeth still, eager to kick on and return back to the Premier League under Daniel Farke.

Farke nearly steered the Whites to an instant return to the top-flight last season, but his unlucky side ultimately came unstuck in the Championship playoffs to Southampton, as an Adam Armstrong strike at Wembley was enough for the Saints to taste promotion over the West Yorkshire outfit in what was a nail-biting final.

Leeds did wave goodbye to many of their stars from the season off the back of this crushing loss, who all moved up to the Premier League, with Crysencio Summerville and Georginio Rutter notable departees.

Archie Gray also left the building, having been given his first big shot in the Whites first-team under the German manager, when he was once just a wide-eyed youngster keen to learn the first-team ropes someday under previous regimes.

Gray's rise at Leeds

Gray would end up becoming a very key part of the Leeds team that so nearly got over the line and returned to the promised land of the top-flight last campaign, as the much talked about teenage talent went on to make 47 league appearances.

He would pick up two assists from those games too, helping to fix a selection headache that bothered Farke towards the start of the season in the process, with Gray more often than not filling in at right-back instead of playing in a more naturally suited central midfield spot.

Gray's importance to the Leeds cause rising rapidly also resulted in his transfer value rocketing up, with the homegrown Whites product worth just £1.3m up until Farke's arrival in the summer of 2023, when his minutes were restricted to just playing for the U21s.

After announcing himself onto the Championship as a cool performer under pressure though, even when regularly playing in an unorthodox position in the Leeds defence, Gray's value would soar all the way up to a ridiculous £16.7m by May 2024, according to Football Transfers.

It did feel like only a matter of time, therefore, before Gray was snapped up by a bigger club in the wake of Leeds failing to clinch promotion, with Tottenham Hotspur eventually winning his coveted services ahead of other interested parties such as Bayern Munich.

Any deal to snap up the wonderkid was going to cost a bomb, however, as Spurs ultimately splurged the necessary cash on Gray to make him a statement summer buy.

Gray's value in 2024

Gray would cost Ange Postecoglou's Spurs an eye-watering £30m to get in through the door during the busy transfer window, a remarkable rise in price from when the 18-year-old ace was worth just a paltry £1.3m.

That means his price tag had shot up by a staggering 2207%, in just a short two-year span, as Postecoglou and Co continue to pray that their new mega-money buy acclimatises to the Premier League well.

He did shine in pre-season for his brand new North London outfit against the likes of Bayern Munich, with Gray lining up at both full-back and in a holding midfield role in these games, whilst the former Leeds star has also featured in two Premier League games so far.

If he does go on to find a starting spot in the Spurs XI week in and week out, his value will shoot up even more undoubtedly, with Leeds left wondering if they could have got more out of the top-flight side as a result.

Leeds have managed to adjust to life without Gray rather well, however, as Junior Firpo continues to breathe life back into his once rocky Whites career at left-back, with an assist coming his way last time out versus Hull City sealing a second league win on the spin.

Farke's job will be on thin ice if he doesn't deliver promotion this time around for the Whites, even with all of the high-profile departures his side have had to contend with in the bumpy window.

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West Ham United’s academy has developed numerous star talents over the years, many of which have had a huge impact on the club’s first team.

Mark Noble, who’s arguably one of the club’s greatest modern-day icons, spent many years in the youth setup before making the step up into the senior ranks.

He spent 18 years as a player with the Hammers, making 472 appearances for the club, before retiring in 2022 and taking up a role behind the scenes as a Sporting Director.

Declan Rice is another talent who made a huge impact, featuring 245 times over a seven-year spell – helping the club win the Europa Conference League back in 2022/23.

However, he left in a £105m deal last summer, joining Premier League rivals Arsenal – in an all-round excellent deal for the club, despite the disappointment from the fanbase over his departure.

One other player also came through the academy but was sold way before he could make his own mark at the London Stadium.

The player who West Ham may have sold too soon

As previously mentioned, the club have enjoyed success with midfielders coming through within the youth setup before making the jump into the professional game.

However, the Hammers offloaded Irish international Josh Cullen prematurely back in October 2020, selling him to Belgian side Anderlecht – allowing him to gain valuable game time away from the London Stadium.

The now 28-year-old only made ten appearances for West Ham before departing the club on a permanent basis – unable to fulfil his potential at the club after coming through the ranks.

He’s since moved to Burnley, featuring over 80 times for the Clarets since his transfer in the summer of 2022, playing a crucial role in the Premier League despite their relegation at the end of last season.

Josh Cullen’s Premier League stats for Burnley (2023/24)

Statistics

Tally

Games played

25

Minutes played

2059

Goals + assists

5

Pass accuracy

87%

Chances created

26

Tackles won

69%

Duels won

113

Stats via FotMob

Cullen made 25 appearances, with his market value soaring as a result of his consistent performances under Vincent Kompany during the 2023/24 campaign.

Josh Cullen’s market value in 2024

Despite the drop back into the Championship, the Irishman has maintained his market value – making three appearances under new boss Scott Parker so far this season.

Four years on from his departure from the Hammers, the midfielder has seen a huge jump in value after his £500k transfer away from his boyhood club.

Cullen is now valued at £8.5m as per Transfermarkt, an increase of 1600% – demonstrating that the club may have offloaded the talent way too cheaply.

Although he may not have the talent to be a regular starter under new boss Julen Lopetegui, his time in the Premier League in recent years could’ve made him a solid squad player for the Spaniard as he aims to endure an impressive first campaign at the helm.

On the other hand, Cullen may have benefitted from a loan spell before his permanent move to Anderlecht – which could’ve allowed the club to have made a greater profit margin than they did when they sold him a handful of years ago.

However, that being said, West Ham must use this deal as a reminder to avoid offloading youngsters on the cheap, potentially losing themselves a bunch of talented players in the process.

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