{"id":166216,"date":"2025-06-07T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166216\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T23:39:10","slug":"music-to-their-ears-potter-promises-midfield-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166216\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMusic to Their Ears\u201d | Potter Promises Midfield Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West Ham<\/strong> manager Graham Potter has pledged to give two of the club\u2019s most promising youngsters a real chance to impress and earn their spot in next season\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to trusted insider ExWHUEmployee, who shared the update via his Patreon and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewesthamway.com\/2025\/06\/07\/both-involved-exwhuemployee-earthy-orford-hammers-future-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The West Ham Way<\/a> website. Ex revealed that Potter has already held conversations with both George Earthy and Lewis Orford regarding their future game-time and progression at the club.<\/p>\n<p>And according to the well-connected source, one or both players could remain at West Ham for the new campaign\u2014provided they shine during pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/category\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claret &amp; Hugh<\/a> also spoke to our own training ground source last week, who confirmed that the club\u2019s willingness to sell Andy Irving was largely down to the emergence of academy talent. In that instance, Freddie Potts was singled out as a player expected to remain in the first-team picture following a successful loan at Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>With a summer clear-out expected, and Potter keen to refresh the squad while managing a limited budget, utilising academy graduates could be crucial.<\/p>\n<p>Expect Earthy, Orford, and Potts to be heavily involved in West Ham\u2019s early pre-season plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham manager Graham Potter has pledged to give two of the club\u2019s most promising youngsters a real&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114644724339442813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}