Freddie Potts interview: ‘New West Ham era is the perfect chance for us youngsters to impress’ [Video]

While most of the team-mates he has just spent a terrific loan season at Wycombe alongside jet off on their summer holidays, Freddie Potts has been back at West Ham this week, training with the first-team squad during the final days of David Moyes’s reign.

“I’ve seen them all on social media, posting on planes and stuff, places I wanted to go,” Potts tells Standard Sport.

“But I’m not bothered. I’m back at West Ham, trying to prepare myself for pre-season, because I know it’s going to be a really important one for me.”

It is forecast to be a summer of change at West Ham, with Julen Lopetegui set to take over from Moyes when the Scot’s contract expires, and for a crop of highly-rated youngsters like Potts, George Earthy and Ollie Scarles, one of opportunity, too.

“It’s a fresh start,” Potts agrees. “No one knows too much about the young players, whoever the boss is going …