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West Ham fans react as Reece Oxford leaves on loan
West Ham supporters have been pretty downbeat in recent times after seeing their side suffer an 11th Premier League defeat of the season on Tuesday night.
Manuel Pellegrini’s men went into their clash with Wolves looking to bounce back after falling to a 2-0 defeat at Bournemouth in their previous league encounter, with an embarrassing FA Cup exit at the hands of AFC Wimbledon also sandwiched in between. Yet the Hammers were unable to do so in going down 3-0 at Molineux, with a brace from Raul Jimenez and a Romain Saiss strike sealing a routine victory for the West Midlanders, in turn instigating West Ham’s fall to 12th place in the Premier League table.
As such, there have been many disappointed Hammers fans up and down the country, plenty of whom have taken to Twitter to express further dissatisfaction at the news that Reece Oxford left the club on Deadline Day (as per the club’s official website).
The 20-year-old has come up through the ranks at the East London club to appear 17 times for the Hammers, and was tipped as the next big-thing upon bursting onto the scene many years ago as a 16-year-old when he starred in the Premier League against Arsenal back in August 2015.
However, the versatile defender has since then failed to really kick-on in appearing only 17 times in all for the Hammers, thus prompting the youngster to make loan moves to Borussia Monchengladbach and Reading in a bid to get his career going – that didn’t quite happen though either.
Yet the Englishman will again try his luck having officially signed for Bundesliga outfit Augsburg on loan until the rest of the season, and while he hasn’t actually featured for Pellegrini’s side prior to his departure, his exit does leave the club somewhat short of cover in the centre back ranks.
And that has been the source of much frustration and surprise among several West Ham fans on Twitter…
This is mental, only recognised fit can we have are diop and Og
— Dan 父 Good (@DaniGood) January 31, 2019
DID YOU LOOK AT HOW MANY INJURIES WE HAVE
— jj (@jeremiahhjoshua) January 31, 2019
Even if Balbuena gets fit still only leaves 3, how many other prem clubs have 3 senior centre backs??? Oh yeah, us
— Dan 父 Good (@DaniGood) January 31, 2019
All hail gold and sullivan. U failed us in january once again. Well done lads.
— tracey andrews (@lemlem75) January 31, 2019
Loans out center back when that is the position that needs the most reinforcing
— Rob2018 (@Westham2018) January 31, 2019
It’s a good job that we have plenty of centre half’s. Oh wait
— John (@0703jab) January 31, 2019
You do realise we have 10 injuries lads?
— Samzini⚒ (@Samcam06) January 31, 2019
Short in defence and we lot him go on loan ….
— david wilkinson (@wilko447) January 31, 2019
West Ham fans… what do you think? Let us know!
